If you are in the NY area right now, wow!  This weather has been amazing.  We have had a perfect week with my family doing all the things we normally do and keeping life simple.  We are here through July 4th and then we head back to California.  For my monthly online cooking class subscribers, the new July class is getting sent to you this weekend!  It might be one of my favorite classes yet!  If you are not yet a subscriber, try a class out!  I promise you will learn a lot about being a better cook, health and nutrition, and learning how to adapt recipes to suit your style. The recipes are brand new and won’t be published for at least a year, but it’s also so nice to be a part of this special community!

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You know what time of year it is!  I am going to Long Island to hang with my family! Follow along on Instagram or Facebook as my sisters, my mom, my aunt and I cook up a storm, have long coffee talks in the morning, walk along the beach, sneak away from the kids on a canoe and play Rummikub until we’re blue in the face!  How do we manage to cook meals for so many people all week?  It’s called a GOOGLE DOC and we all help out, including the kiddos.  I repeat a lot of the same recipes year after year, because why not?! 

Also, I wanted to let you guys know about a great course my favorite organizing gurus, Inspired Everyday Living, are launching, called Declutter and Manifest.  Laura and Alison are more than just organizers. They really value the home as a reflection of who you are and the life you want to live.  I highly recommend this course!! 

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A lot of you have started your summers this week with kids now out of school.  I used to love it when my children could be more relaxed and not stressed out about homework and running to activities.  Plus YAY! no more making school lunches at 6:30 in the morning! Buuuut, providing structure so they didn’t get “bored” or sit on devices all day was a challenge.  I have an idea – tell your kids to make dinner once a week.  Tell them to find a recipe and you’ll shop for it and they can make it!  That’s how I learned how to cook – I wanted something different from my mom’s standard weekly meals (which were delicious, but on repeat a lot!), so I found recipes for things I wanted to eat!

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My baby, affectionately referred to since the inception of this website as Mr. Picky, is graduating high school this weekend!  OMG.  Very emotional week for me.  I am proud of course, excited for his future, and a bit weepy that he will be fleeing the nest in a few months.  I am grateful Hubs and I can take it all in.  

For my monthly cooking class subscribers, I am doing our monthly live zoom on Tuesday at 5:00 pm PT.  Come with all your questions, or just hang out and listen to the conversation.  I’d love to see you!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

Mr Picky just came back from 20 days backpacking out in the middle of nowhere with his class and I could not be more excited to have him home.  He requested branzino, roasted cauliflower, roasted asparagus, and grilled artichokes.  Done!  

I have had so many questions recently about when I will resume in-person cooking classes, and unfortunately, I will not be teaching in-person until at least 2023 and even then it will be special occasion classes, not monthly.  There’s no better time than now to join my monthly online cooking classes. They’re great and the same format as my in-person classes.  There are different subscription options, including one where you have access to the ENTIRE library of classes.  It’s a great value and I promise you will learn how to be a better cook! Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

It is probably your last opportunity to take a bootcamp live with me!  I am repeating two very popular bootcamps, Back to Basics AND Meal Planning | Meal Prepping | Batch Cooking, at a time that I think is perfect.  Summer is more relaxed; people may be traveling, but there are fewer commitments, especially for kids. If you know someone who is graduating from college or getting married, either of these bootcamps would be the perfect way to start learning how to cook more at home. If YOU are still struggling cooking at home and not quite feeling your best, take my classes and let me help you! You do NOT have to attend the the classes live, but I do answer questions live during the class and have a supplemental live Q&A session immediately following which is a really valuable perk to taking the classes live. For my community, I want to share a $100 discount on both courses.  Use BB100 for the Basics course and MEAL100 for the Meal Prep course.  There are payment plans available too!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

I am offering two bootcamps live next month and they are PERFECT for new cooks, college graduates, and newlyweds especially!  Back to Basics and Meal Planning| Meal Prep are both starting live the week of May 31.  You can OF COURSE watch self-paced on your own time with no expiration date, but many people like the live Q&A feature so they can interact with me and ask specific questions.  The format is a zoom WEBINAR, which means no one sees or hears you, so you can watch in your PJ’s or your birthday suit!  If you would like to gift someone one of my bootcamps, please email Erika pamelasassistant@gmail.com and she’ll help you out!  For my online community, I always offer a $100 discount. Use code BB100 for the Basics course and MEAL100 for the Meal Prep course.  These are both life-changing courses and will 100% get anyone to be a better, more confident cook and more organized and streamlined in the kitchen!

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Instagram Live on Monday will be with my friend Chrissy Roth, whom I dub “Plant-based Chrissy.” We’ve done lives together before and I’m excited to have her step in for Hubs on Monday. If you take my monthly online class, your all-new May class was uploaded last week and I’ve been getting great feedback already, so make sure you watch! It’s a breakfast/brunch theme and there’s lots of great info as well as 5 all-new recipes!  Get your questions ready, because our monthly zoom is on Tuesday, May 24th at 5:00 pm PST.  You can also submit any questions to me beforehand and I can answer them during the live and then you can watch the recording!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading