👩🍳 Easy Recipes that Gather People 🥰 Making Life Simple and Tasty 🎀 Ringing in the NEW Southern Belle
Feed Future You
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Happy Monday, Y'all! A version of you is coming home later this week, and she'll be so grateful for whatever you do for her today. And frankly? I think we should make her life easier. 🌿 Host Yourself FirstThis week, I want you to think about Future You. Not six-months-from-now Future You. I mean Thursday-at-5:47-PM Future You, hungry, tired, and staring into the refrigerator, hoping dinner magically appears. What can you do today that makes her evening easier? It doesn’t have to be a giant meal prep production. 🧅 Chop an onion. 🥬 Wash the lettuce. 🥣 Make the dressing. 🍗 Marinate the chicken. Or — my personal favorite — cook something once and make enough to feed yourself twice. Those little acts of preparation are one of my favorite ways to Host Yourself First. You’re essentially leaving tiny love notes for yourself throughout the week. And I don’t know about you, but when I pull something homemade out of the freezer on a busy night? I feel VERY smug about Past Ashley’s choices. 😂 It also comes in handy when you need to take a meal to a friend! This morning, I pulled out some soup starters and gumbo collards from my freezer and dropped them on a friend's doorstep on my way to the grocery. 🍽️ This Week at the TableThis is your official invitation to make a double batch of chili. My 5-Ingredient Chili is exactly the kind of recipe I want in August. Yes, chili in August! It’s quick. It’s easy. It’s comforting without requiring an entire afternoon at the stove. Make one batch for dinner tonight and another for the freezer. Future You will turn it into: 🌶️ Chili + cornbread 🌶️ Chili cheese baked potatoes 🌶️ Chili dogs 🌶️ Chili over tortilla chips with ALL the toppings 🌶️ Or simply… a bowl of chili you didn’t have to cook. That’s the kind of meal planning I’m interested in. (I mix rice and this chili recipe, then roll it into burritos... I freeze them wrapped in parchment paper for the fire station up the street!) Cook once. Eat now. Feed yourself (and others!) later. Because we’re not trying to win an award for Most Elaborate Weeknight Dinner. We’re trying to eat something delicious and make our lives a little easier. 🤍 This Week’s BlessingMay the small things I do today become gifts waiting for me later. May my freezer hold dinner, my table hold space for me, and my week have enough margin to actually enjoy it. Here’s to feeding ourselves well — today and later. From my table to yours, Ashley | Chez Sweetpea |
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👩🍳 Easy Recipes that Gather People 🥰 Making Life Simple and Tasty 🎀 Ringing in the NEW Southern Belle
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