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Is there anything more low-key extra than taking s

Is there anything more low-key extra than taking sheet pan nachos straight out of the oven, placing homemade margaritas in your wagon’s cup holders, and taking your dog on a joy ride for dinner time? Probably not 😅 I hope your weekend had some low-key extra joy in it! 💛

217 days. Give or take a few days here and there a

217 days. Give or take a few days here and there and that’s how many days we’ve been cooking from home since the lockdown.

I have found I can no longer carry on😂 You all, I feel like I’m in a video game and I’ve played all my make-dinner chips and there is no way to get more chips. NEED MORE MAKE-DINNER CHIPS! Now I also want chips 😋

I know we’re all a little weary and a lot over all the cooking. And I put together The Sauce eBook because sauces are the only thing bringing life to my meals right now. She’s available until tomorrow! See my stories for more details.

Either way, I see you. Prepping all the things. Cooking. Washing dishes. If you’re in a rut right now, welcome it. Take the rest. Order the takeout. Phone a friend. We’re playing a long game. It’s ok to take a break. AND WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SEND US MORE MAKE-DINNER CHIPS FOR THIS GAME?!

I have found that if you do something completely u

I have found that if you do something completely unexpected and out of the ordinary, something to interrupt your own life’s status quo, a part of your soul will make itself known.

This past weekend I was feeling a little out of sorts. Part of it was a vulnerability hang over. A lot of it was a restlessness from being extremely limited with how we do life in this 2020 season.

A few days ago, dear friends of ours picked apples and gifted us with some of their bounty. Normally I would make dried apples. Or eat them fresh with cheese. But yesterday I made @joythebaker’s Apple Bourbon Galette🤤It was new for me to bake. Out of the ordinary.

I have not really traveled in 2020 or had the gatherings I would have hoped for in this year. But I made a galette for the first time and that is its own kind of wild and wonderful. What have you done completely out of the ordinary (small or big) to interrupt the routine of your life? Let’s share ideas!

Motion to remove the following phrase from our voc

Motion to remove the following phrase from our vocabulary, “How can you be a Christian and...?”

I’ve seen this phrase used in a lot of contexts especially in political discourse. Here in this space we are a welcoming people💛We welcome people to our table and we welcome them into conversation. To welcome someone means to “gladly receive them.”

When we start a question with a judgement statement, we are doing just that ... judging first. Which generally invites the person to go into a defensive stance. They have to defend their position, not enter into a conversation filled with grace and compassion.

Let’s replace that phrase with, “You are someone I really care about and I’ve loved hearing your thoughts on other opinions. Can you please share with me your thoughts on xx?”

💥Nonnegotiable rule of thumb - you have to actually mean it. No gaslighting. No gaslighting. No gaslighting. Going into a conversation with the manipulative intent to change someone’s mind thru redirection, name calling, and inciting chaos is incredibly harmful both psychologically and relationally. (This does not mean someone’s mind will not change after dialoging with you or others over time. But this cannot be the end goal. The end goal is the care of the relationship.)

We need to be better at dialoging and asking questions. Too many people are running around with their “well intended” questions disguised as open doors when they are in fact sharp arrows aimed and ready.

Raising my homemade iced Doubleshot to you today, dears! Let’s be for each other more fiercely than we are for our opinions. We are door openers, not door monitors.

A few summers ago I boarded a plane ✈️ and lan

A few summers ago I boarded a plane ✈️ and landed in London. For the next several days home was a place with other writers. Exploring cathedrals and pubs and theaters. Weaving in and out of markets and the Tube station and cobblestone roads. And then one day I met @shellymillerwriter. A writer, an American living in London. Her presence was immediately refreshing. There was a peace all around her that I was instantly enveloped in while we talked. I immediately followed her on Instagram (like we do). Her words on rest and God’s protection have been little guideposts throughout my weeks.

This month her new book, Searching for Certainity: Finding God in the Disruptions of Life releases into the world. I cannot think of a better book to carry us as we enter the end of 2020. Shelly has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The prognosis is 12 months. She has been the most raw and grace-filled voice in my life recently through her posts. It was an honor to be in her presence for even just a few minutes while I was visiting London. I hope you buy her book and follow her. Will you please join me in praying for her and her family? What a severe mercy that she is speaking to us from a place of suffering and pointing us to our to Savior, a man of suffering and familiar with suffering.
📸 : @shellymillerwriter

Hi, hello! I’m throwing a party in this space on

Hi, hello! I’m throwing a party in this space on this square. Right now. Let’s hang out🎉

✨About Me✨
➰I name my pizza dough and my plants. Naming my pizza dough is a new feature of pandemic times. I’M DOING FINE THANK YOU FOR ASKING.

➰I wrote the book Come & Eat. It released 3 years ago and it is still one of my most favorite things I put into the world. It’s a book all about celebrating life and grace around our everyday tables. Come as you are. Welcome those as they are. Eat. Repeat. (Bonus, there are 21 recipes and questions for the table in the book!)

➰Sometimes I talk about my very real and deep fear of serial killers in this space. It is a whole mood and I hope you understand I share this info to keep us safe. SAFETY IS SEXY.

➰I love sharing kitchen tips and tricks and recipes with you so you can bring more people to your table. Alas, these are COVID times so I mostly have loved guiding us as we are all navigating cooking every meal every day for all of time.

🐄One wish: I would very much like to own a small milking cow. We eat lots of butter and heavy cream in this space. To offset some of the cost I kindly request a live-in milking cow. Cleans up after itself. Likes dogs. A sense of humor would be nice but not required.

✨About This Community✨
🧄 We get very excited about naked garlic and THE MEATS.

🥃We drink margaritas and make our own Doubelshots and in general, are obsessed with beverages.

💁‍♀️We are low-key extra most days. We have our needs (Horizon Organics Heavy Cream, Vuori Swets, Madewell Jeans, Fortrssa Old Fashion Glasses, ButcherBox meat, Rao’s Pasta Sauce, Trader Joe’s Hummus…), but like, in a grounded way. Ya know?

💃We love the music! What’s better than making dinner with a beat? I try to put out lots of playlists given the season or our mood to keep us going. Playslits are linked in my bio.

🤍We welcome all and all are welcome. Period.

Your turn! If you’re new, WELCOME TO THE FOLD! We are so happy to have you! What is one thing you are low-key extra about (your coffee order? the way dishes are loaded? how the bed sheets are turned down?) If you’ve been here awhile, welcome our new guests! Share your own low-key extra needs.

I’m … not great. Like most of you I am recover

I’m … not great. Like most of you I am recovering from the train wreck that was last night’s debate. I generally feel more comfortable with rage but today I’ve had to sit with sorrow. I have a lot of thoughts I am unraveling and naming. But I just wanted to pop in and say, I’m here. We’re here. Together. Together is a very good place to be. Jeremy and I are going to share a big bowl of this creamy Italian sausage pasta because food is a healer.

Avocado toast but with goat cheese, crumbled bacon

Avocado toast but with goat cheese, crumbled bacon, chunky flakes of sea salt and a drizzle of MAPLE SYRUP. 🍁 Thank you for stopping by to see the rarest photo in all the land: a shot of a blonde girl’s avocado toast 😂💁🏼‍♀️

Honey simple syrup but make it pumpkin 🍁 Calli

Honey simple syrup but make it pumpkin 🍁

Calling anyone who wants just a flair💫 (yes I said it) of fall in their coffee. I am your girl. I don’t love sugary lattes or overly sweet creamers. But I do love a hint! Here’s how we make it:

1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup water
2 TBS canned pumpkin (pro tip, reserve 2 TBS from the can of pumpkin you use for your pumpkin chili)
1/4 tsp cinnamon

In a small saucepan over medium heat add all ingredients. Simmer until everything is combined (about 2-3 minutes). Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 7 days. Use to sweeten your coffee, Iced Doubleshot, latte, tea, Old Fashion ... OR drizzle over oatmeal, pancakes, your fingers. What have you. Welcome to pumpkin honey simple syrup. It’s low-key extra, just like us. Cheers!

I’m calling it. The time for pumpkin chili is he

I’m calling it. The time for pumpkin chili is here! Recipe is up on the site. Going to make it in my stories tomorrow. Have you already had something with pumpkin in it? This is a judgement free zone!

Over the weekend this beauty, my book, turned 3 ye

Over the weekend this beauty, my book, turned 3 years old! 🎉🎉

I wrote Come & Eat: A Celebration of love and Grace around the Everyday Table as an invitation for us all to show up to our tables, just as we are, in all our everyday-ness and gather the people around us, welcoming their everyday-ness.

I couldn’t have predicted that in the three years of this little book’s life, bringing people to our table would be incredibly heartbreaking if not nearly impossible. From an election that left our country deeply divided to a pandemic that has required we self-isolate - bringing people to our table has felt less like an anthem and more like a question.

The message of this book has become a compass for me over the years, as I’ve navigated uncomfortable dinner conversations and made space to love my neighbor. I am so proud of her and I’m so grateful to all of you who have purchased this book, made the recipes, and gathered those around you. Look at where we are 3 years later?! 🎉🤗This community has flourished and become brighter. From knife sharpening to homemade Doubelshots, to dinner playlists and pumpkin chili. I am committed to this space. I am committed to you. I am committed to bringing you the recipes and skills you need to bring more people to your table.

If you have read and loved Come & Eat, will you celebrate her birthday by leaving a review?! Amazon, Goodreads, wherever you purchased the book. Thank you!

She’s here! The most tasty, mouthwatering, homem

I’m hiring an executive assistant! I’m just ov

Last night I woke up at 2am and knew I was going i

Last night I woke up at 2am and knew I was going into Tuesday scraping a barrel that is empty. I have reached the limit of my creativity and energy and tolerance. But I keep scraping the barrel. We all keep scraping the barrel. We keep showing up. A little worn down. A little foggy.
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This is what I know, this is the Still Small Voice that came to me at the dreaded 2am hour, you think you are scraping the barrel to get more from it, but you are actually making the barrel bigger. You are reshaping the barrel and one day it will hold more than you could fathom. More love, more peace, more creativity, more hope, more trust. Do not despise the little you can bring to the table today. The scraps of yourself. You are the miracle, not what you can do or produce. Your worth is in your presence not your production. Here’s to the reshaping, dears. Even if the little piece you scrape from the barrel today is only as big as a mustard seed, have you heard what can be done with a mustard seed?

Some learnings from being in the nature this past

Some learnings from being in the nature this past weekend:
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🥃When traveling into the middle of nowhere (by choice) survival is key. The three c’s of survival are coffee, cream and cocktails.
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🥾I hiked 2 hours today and came home and googled “application for World’s Toughest Race.” I mean, wow, I let that hike go to my head real fast. I noted this after I woke up from my nap. Which I needed because of the hike.
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🪓Listening to lots of true crime podcasts as you prepare for your getaway into nowhere is a really, like honestly, a very bad idea. 10/10 do not recommend.
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But it did lead to this beauty of a conversation:
Me: Do you know when the last attack in this national park was?
Jeremy: There hasn’t been a bear attack in over a year.
Me: I was referencing attacks from the species known as serial killers.
Jeremy: 😐
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We’re wrapping up our little getaway. Photographed is a new drink I’ll be sharing with you soon. Here’s to Sunday evening. May it be restful but also kind of extra 🍾✨

On this day of August 17, there was a very slight

On this day of August 17, there was a very slight breeze in the air and I immediately turned on the oven and made a pot roast. Thank you for understanding🤗

Here’s to the weekend! I hope it’s filled with

Here’s to the weekend! I hope it’s filled with, buttery, toasted sourdough tossed with fresh veggies, olive oil and red wine vinegar! (Notes: The above is obviously one serving. Praise.)
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ALSO! You all! Thank you for all the beautiful birthday comments and DMs this week! This community has become such a wild, glorious gift in my life! I’m grateful to have you here in this space! Thank you for all the ways you let me into your lives and kitchens 💛

CLOSED!! Winner announced in comments.

GIVEAWAY!✨✨ It’s here and I have exactly zero chill about it!! Kendra’s book, The Lazy Genius Way has launched into the world!! I do not say this lightly, this book will change your life. Truly. I cannot recommend #lazygeniusway highly enough (like, my level of recommendation is as high as my recommendation for Horizon Organics Heavy Whipping Cream 🐄 , and that’s saying a lot).
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That’s why I am giving away a copy of The Lazy Genius Way! (Also word on the street is, I might be able to get this book to you faster than Amazon 💁🏼‍♀️🙃)
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This is 36🎉 I had no idea how cozy and deliciou

What is your favorite infused simple syrup?! I’m

What is your favorite infused simple syrup?! I’m still making Blueberry Honey Simple Syrup! It’s the syrup for all your summertime needs (and let’s be honest, we all have a lot of summertime needs right now🤷‍♀️).
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1/2 cup fresh blueberries
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup water
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Add all ingredients to a small sauce pan. Simmer on low for 8-10 minutes (until honey is dissolved and blueberries have split open). Strain syrup into an airtight jar and refrigerate!
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I add this to my Doubleshot! Can also be used in cocktails, sparkling water, lemonade and teas, over oatmeals and what not. The straight-from-spoon-to-mouth method is also a blessing.

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Is there anything more low-key extra than taking s

Is there anything more low-key extra than taking sheet pan nachos straight out of the oven, placing homemade margaritas in your wagon’s cup holders, and taking your dog on a joy ride for dinner time? Probably not 😅 I hope your weekend had some low-key extra joy in it! 💛

217 days. Give or take a few days here and there a

217 days. Give or take a few days here and there and that’s how many days we’ve been cooking from home since the lockdown.

I have found I can no longer carry on😂 You all, I feel like I’m in a video game and I’ve played all my make-dinner chips and there is no way to get more chips. NEED MORE MAKE-DINNER CHIPS! Now I also want chips 😋

I know we’re all a little weary and a lot over all the cooking. And I put together The Sauce eBook because sauces are the only thing bringing life to my meals right now. She’s available until tomorrow! See my stories for more details.

Either way, I see you. Prepping all the things. Cooking. Washing dishes. If you’re in a rut right now, welcome it. Take the rest. Order the takeout. Phone a friend. We’re playing a long game. It’s ok to take a break. AND WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SEND US MORE MAKE-DINNER CHIPS FOR THIS GAME?!

I have found that if you do something completely u

I have found that if you do something completely unexpected and out of the ordinary, something to interrupt your own life’s status quo, a part of your soul will make itself known.

This past weekend I was feeling a little out of sorts. Part of it was a vulnerability hang over. A lot of it was a restlessness from being extremely limited with how we do life in this 2020 season.

A few days ago, dear friends of ours picked apples and gifted us with some of their bounty. Normally I would make dried apples. Or eat them fresh with cheese. But yesterday I made @joythebaker’s Apple Bourbon Galette🤤It was new for me to bake. Out of the ordinary.

I have not really traveled in 2020 or had the gatherings I would have hoped for in this year. But I made a galette for the first time and that is its own kind of wild and wonderful. What have you done completely out of the ordinary (small or big) to interrupt the routine of your life? Let’s share ideas!

Motion to remove the following phrase from our voc

Motion to remove the following phrase from our vocabulary, “How can you be a Christian and...?”

I’ve seen this phrase used in a lot of contexts especially in political discourse. Here in this space we are a welcoming people💛We welcome people to our table and we welcome them into conversation. To welcome someone means to “gladly receive them.”

When we start a question with a judgement statement, we are doing just that ... judging first. Which generally invites the person to go into a defensive stance. They have to defend their position, not enter into a conversation filled with grace and compassion.

Let’s replace that phrase with, “You are someone I really care about and I’ve loved hearing your thoughts on other opinions. Can you please share with me your thoughts on xx?”

💥Nonnegotiable rule of thumb - you have to actually mean it. No gaslighting. No gaslighting. No gaslighting. Going into a conversation with the manipulative intent to change someone’s mind thru redirection, name calling, and inciting chaos is incredibly harmful both psychologically and relationally. (This does not mean someone’s mind will not change after dialoging with you or others over time. But this cannot be the end goal. The end goal is the care of the relationship.)

We need to be better at dialoging and asking questions. Too many people are running around with their “well intended” questions disguised as open doors when they are in fact sharp arrows aimed and ready.

Raising my homemade iced Doubleshot to you today, dears! Let’s be for each other more fiercely than we are for our opinions. We are door openers, not door monitors.

A few summers ago I boarded a plane ✈️ and lan

A few summers ago I boarded a plane ✈️ and landed in London. For the next several days home was a place with other writers. Exploring cathedrals and pubs and theaters. Weaving in and out of markets and the Tube station and cobblestone roads. And then one day I met @shellymillerwriter. A writer, an American living in London. Her presence was immediately refreshing. There was a peace all around her that I was instantly enveloped in while we talked. I immediately followed her on Instagram (like we do). Her words on rest and God’s protection have been little guideposts throughout my weeks.

This month her new book, Searching for Certainity: Finding God in the Disruptions of Life releases into the world. I cannot think of a better book to carry us as we enter the end of 2020. Shelly has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The prognosis is 12 months. She has been the most raw and grace-filled voice in my life recently through her posts. It was an honor to be in her presence for even just a few minutes while I was visiting London. I hope you buy her book and follow her. Will you please join me in praying for her and her family? What a severe mercy that she is speaking to us from a place of suffering and pointing us to our to Savior, a man of suffering and familiar with suffering.
📸 : @shellymillerwriter

Hi, hello! I’m throwing a party in this space on

Hi, hello! I’m throwing a party in this space on this square. Right now. Let’s hang out🎉

✨About Me✨
➰I name my pizza dough and my plants. Naming my pizza dough is a new feature of pandemic times. I’M DOING FINE THANK YOU FOR ASKING.

➰I wrote the book Come & Eat. It released 3 years ago and it is still one of my most favorite things I put into the world. It’s a book all about celebrating life and grace around our everyday tables. Come as you are. Welcome those as they are. Eat. Repeat. (Bonus, there are 21 recipes and questions for the table in the book!)

➰Sometimes I talk about my very real and deep fear of serial killers in this space. It is a whole mood and I hope you understand I share this info to keep us safe. SAFETY IS SEXY.

➰I love sharing kitchen tips and tricks and recipes with you so you can bring more people to your table. Alas, these are COVID times so I mostly have loved guiding us as we are all navigating cooking every meal every day for all of time.

🐄One wish: I would very much like to own a small milking cow. We eat lots of butter and heavy cream in this space. To offset some of the cost I kindly request a live-in milking cow. Cleans up after itself. Likes dogs. A sense of humor would be nice but not required.

✨About This Community✨
🧄 We get very excited about naked garlic and THE MEATS.

🥃We drink margaritas and make our own Doubelshots and in general, are obsessed with beverages.

💁‍♀️We are low-key extra most days. We have our needs (Horizon Organics Heavy Cream, Vuori Swets, Madewell Jeans, Fortrssa Old Fashion Glasses, ButcherBox meat, Rao’s Pasta Sauce, Trader Joe’s Hummus…), but like, in a grounded way. Ya know?

💃We love the music! What’s better than making dinner with a beat? I try to put out lots of playlists given the season or our mood to keep us going. Playslits are linked in my bio.

🤍We welcome all and all are welcome. Period.

Your turn! If you’re new, WELCOME TO THE FOLD! We are so happy to have you! What is one thing you are low-key extra about (your coffee order? the way dishes are loaded? how the bed sheets are turned down?) If you’ve been here awhile, welcome our new guests! Share your own low-key extra needs.

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