Tacos al Pastor and cookbook review: Milk Street 365

I’m so smitten with The new Milk Street 365! Amazing book!

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I will tell you all about the dishes we tried in a minute, but first I wanted to give you a recipe to try. Tacos al Pastor. Amazing Tacos al Pastor that are on the table in an hour. Not even kidding!!! That’s the beauty of Milk Street. All the flavor, but they get it across the plate in the easiest way possible. Delicious minimalism.

I blogged about the book last week, too. Did you miss that one? Here it is! Vietnamese-Style Meatball Lettuce Wraps

A huge thanks to the folks at Milk Street and Voracious for letting me share this and two other recipes with you!


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Vietnamese-Style Meatball Lettuce Wraps and cookbook review: Milk Street 365

The new Milk Street 365 is amazing. It is huge!! It’s a giant collection of global recipes. Each one we tried was super flavorful with the least effort possible. Delicious minimalism. Love that! It’s the book I wish I’d been given when I was younger. Totally giftable book for the beginner and seasoned foodie alike.

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I will tell you all about the dishes we tried in a minute, but first I wanted to give you a recipe to try. Vietnamese-Style Meatball Lettuce Wraps. Oh my yum!!! Outstanding. All of the flavor. All of it. They are even more delicious than they are cute. Love delicious, healthy, easy, pocket-friendly dinners and this ticks all of the boxes! The fish sauce really makes the drizzle sauce craveable.

A huge thanks to the folks at Milk Street and Voracious for letting me share this and two more upcoming recipes with you!


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Jen’s Protein Nice Creams 2: High-Protein (and a lot with high-produce!) Ice Cream in the Ninja Creami Deluxe

My copies are finally here!!! 30 flavors in each book – a whole ice cream shop in 40 pages! It’s all stripped-down content with no fluff. Hard for a blogger to shut up, but I very intentionally did, so they’re sized like fat comic books rather than hefty texts. Hope you love them, too!

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Plantain nachos with carnitas and black beans recipe – Nachos for Dinner

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Nachos for Dinner. Yeah. They totally had me at hello with this title. This is a really fun book! Nachos running the full circuit from traditional to highly imaginative. He has really thought of everything. Everything we tried was delicious and the names he made up had us cracking up. Soupchos, anyone??

Got a recipe for you to try! Plantain nachos with carnitas and black beans. Outstanding! Super flavorful pork over plantain chips with cheddar, black beans, Chihuahua cheese, lime crema, habanana sauce, and avocado. It was a meat and plant fest! Oh, that habanana sauce! Bananas, a ton of habaneros, with onions, cilantro, and garlic. It looks scary hot, but it’s a wonderfully flavorful sweet heat. We love this sauce. Love. I think you will, too! The book comes out this Tuesday! If you grab the book, be sure to make the Buffalo chicken nachos next!

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Speedy Pork Scaloppine recipe – Pioneer Woman Cooks: Super Easy!

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Cutlets, scaloppine, schnitzel… Call it what you like, but every culture has a version of these with good reason – they’re awesome! If you’re not sure you love pork chops, here’s a great chance to fix that situation, or you could use chicken if you really want to. Just don’t skip the sauce. It’s wonderful. It’s like a lemony gravy. She suggests “loaded crash hots” (loaded little potatoes). Asparagus and green beans both play so nicely with that sauce, though…

One of my favorite things about Pioneer Woman’s books that you might not be aware of if you’re just grabbing her recipes online are the “Variations” and “Change It Up!” sections at the end. Once you’ve got the basic recipe down, you can transform it into several different dinners. Niiiice. I’m including those here so you can get a feel for them and have all the fun and yumminess!

I told you all about Pioneer Woman’s new book, THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS: SUPER EASY!, and shared recipes in my last couple posts. Missed them? Here you go! Thanks to William Morrow for letting me share them with you!
The English Breakfast Situation
Teriyaki Chicken Sheet Pan Supper

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Teriyaki Chicken Sheet Pan Supper recipe – Pioneer Woman Cooks: Super Easy!

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I love flipping through cookbooks with a fresh stack of post it notes. Pop my feet up in cozy socks, grab a blanket, turn on the fireplace. Yeah. Add a glass of wine for the ultimate “me time”.

I told you all about Pioneer Woman’s new book, THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS: SUPER EASY! , and shared the recipe for The English Breakfast situation in my last post. Missed it? Here you go!

This is the recipe that really stood out and made me want to stand up and run into the kitchen. It looks fabulous, and to my delight it totally delivers all the flavor I was hoping for! Sheet pan easy, flavorful, colorful, and filled with tons of produce and protein! Hope you love it, too! Go get you some oh-so-delicious “me time”! Thank you to William Morrow for letting me share it with you!

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Sumac-Spiced Chicken Cutlets with Tomato-Onion Salad recipe from Milk Street Tuesday Nights Mediterranean

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If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you know that I love everything Milk Street does. Always phenomenal. If you’re already a Milk Street fan, you are going to love Milk Street Tuesday Nights Mediterranean. If you’re new to Milk Street, you’re in for a treat. They are absolute minimalists on everything but flavor. They’ll get you from the counter to the table in the easiest way possible. And they’re really strong flavorists.

I posted their recipe for Spaghetti with Lemon Pesto last week. If you missed that, you have to go back and make it! And you can see my full review of the book there. I wanted to share one more dish from this fabulous book with you. Sumac-Spiced Chicken Cutlets with Tomato-Onion Salad. Oh gosh. Are these ever fantastic. Don’t laugh, but if you’ve ever really enjoyed the pucker of a Sour Patch Kid, and you haven’t tried sumac, you’re missing out. The flavor of this dish is really unique and wonderful. 


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The Best Damn Paleo Brownies recipe from The Whole Smiths Real Food Every Day

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Okay! I told you all about The Whole Smiths Real Food Every Day last week. Amazing book!

Here’s that post with her Mole Chicken recipe if you missed it!

One post just isn’t going to do it! The Best Damn Paleo Brownies. I am embarrassed to say that after flipping through the book flagging recipes to try, I stumbled on this little gem, and made it first. LOL! Totally worth it! Because there’s no flour, there’s nothing dulling the flavor of the chocolate. These are intensely chocolately. The flavor and texture are terrific. These are my new favorite brownies! These are not just my favorite paleo brownies, they are my favorite brownies!


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Mole Chicken recipe and cookbook review: The Whole Smiths Real Food Every Day

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Mole chicken. Did you just respond, “Yes, please!”? Mmmmm. Mole chicken is *usually* a really time consuming dish. It’s the kind of thing that makes most cooks just keep flipping through the book to something easier. This is about 1 1/2 hours start to finish, and an hour of that is the Instant Pot doing the work. This has great flavor and is comparatively very easy. Let’s do this!

The Whole Smiths Real Food Every Day. I love love love this book! Everything’s delicious, easy, and nutritious. Perfect! I’ll tell you all about the rest of the book after the recipe. Please note ~ I think the author must be using Diamond Crystal Kosher salt because the numbers are at the high end. I’m using plain old salt, so I cut the salt to 2/3 in everything which worked perfectly. Thought I’d share in case you use table salt, too.


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