Also, a sample recipe for the Blue Apron Harissa Chicken Skewers with Khorasan Wheat and Persimmon Salad. 

“Why would someone like me use a service like Blue Apron?” That was the question bouncing around my head when asked if I’d be interested in trying the Blue Apron meal delivery service out. I love to cook – I mean I develop recipes for a living! I also work from home, so have a fairly flexible schedule for grocery shopping and things related to cooking. Why would someone like me need Blue Apron?

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I’m so excited to share this recipe and cookbook review with you all today! I’ve had the new Five Ingredient Recipes cookbook in my hot little hands for quite some time now, and had the opportunity to review some of the recipes before it was published. It’s a keeper, friends!…

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I struggle BIG TIME with side dishes. I can plan the main dish or dessert, but the side dish is often a second, absentminded thought at our dinner table.

I can open up and heat a can of green beans, toss a salad together, or steam some rice, but after all of the effort put into the main dish, I really don’t want to think much beyond that. Surely I’m not the only one, right?

It was only recently after seeing Gaby from What’s Gaby Cooking do some really simple “cook, open, toss” side dishes on Snapchat (I’m having a ball over there join me…I’m dineanddish) that I decided to up my side dish game a bit. In fact, lately I’ve been making some pretty awesome side dishes that could also easily be a main dish too! This Pasta with California Avocado Cream Sauce recipe is one such side dish super star. …

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Do you remember back in February when I wrote a post about Wolf’s “Reclaim the Kitchen” initiative? I’ve been thinking a lot about that ever since…about why families have been moving away from family mealtime. Growing up, eating at home as a family was the norm. Now? We have over scheduled our lives, and I believe, really over complicated family mealtime.

I know in my house, when we hit the drive through it’s because of my lack of planning. Maybe I didn’t set the meat out to thaw or forgot to grab the key ingredients for a recipe at the store. Either way, if I don’t plan, dinner at home doesn’t happen.

The other thing I have a BIG tendency to do is over complicate family mealtime. Especially as a food blogger, I’m always trying new recipes. Sometimes I forget that getting back to basics…returning to those simple recipes we grew up with… will do just fine. There’s no need for dinner to be a difficult, complicated, affair. There are so many resources at our fingertips with online recipe tools, magazines and cookbooks, we forget that our best recipes are the ones we rarely turn to… the ones our grandmas, our grandmas grandmas, etc. fed their families with for decades using staple ingredients they had on hand from their gardens and pantries. …

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Happy Thanksgiving week, friends! How are you holding up? Are you ready for the onslaught of guests and food? We are heading up to my oldest brother’s house near Chicago for a few days and I can’t wait!

I love Thanksgiving…every year we seem to do something different with either my husbands family or our family…or even just friends who are home for the holiday. We never have real set plans each year but we do have a few things that the day is always full of. Fellowship with others (family family or friends family), awesome food, football AND the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! No matter where we are on Thanksgiving day, we all watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade! …

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Friends… I am finally manning the grill!

If you’ve been following Dine & Dish at all over the past few years, you know that grilling has not been my thing, despite really wanting to learn how. It wasn’t because I lacked eagerness. It was because I just so happened to like being alive and was terrified of figuring out all the tricks to turning on our beloved “ghetto grill”.

Well, just a few weeks ago we received a new Weber grill and it is mine all mine! Since then, I’ve been attempting to teach myself how to grill, and if I can take a moment to humble brag, I’m pretty darn good at it!…

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I used to be of the belief that salad toppings, at least for a cold lettuce salad, need to be cold. I really didn’t like the combination of hot toppings and cold salad. I don’t know why, except that maybe those beliefs stemmed from fast food salads, not ones I would actually make at home.

Once I discovered the amazingness of a hot/cold combo salad, I could hardly return to my former beliefs. I love the contrast of hot ingredients on top of a bed of crispy, cold ingredients. It makes my mouth happy!…

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I wasn’t going to share this dump cake recipe with you. I don’t know why… I just felt like maybe it was beneath my “standards”.

I have no idea why I’m being so judgey with myself about it! It’s really not that different than the amazing Peach Dump Cake I shared on Dine & Dish a couple years ago. It’s not like I’m “above” using canned ingredients and box cake mixes. I guess I just felt that it was too simple. In fact, it was so simple, Leah (my 4 year old) pretty much made it herself. I just had to open the cans for her and tell her what to do and she did it. With an abundance of pride, at that!…

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