Is your brain fried when you log off for the day and it’s time to make dinner? In this episode, I’m telling you how I was able to go from takeout devotee to culinary girlie and find a way to actually like cooking when I wasn’t sure that was possible for me. I’m sharing the city-specific struggles with grocery shopping, how I plan simple weeknight meals so I can cook them quickly and easily in between running my business, and the cookbooks, kitchen tools and things that help set the vibe right in my kitchen. Whether you’ve just been boiling pasta water for years or you’ve got a couple of recipes under lock, I hope this episode inspires you to have fun with cooking.

Mentioned in episode 99:

Content mini series on IG

How to be your healthiest self

Free box HelloFresh

Hot Mess Kitchen

The Dude Diet

Trader Joe’s 5 Items or Less cookbook

Trader Joe’s 5 items Instagram

Karissa’s Instagram

The Practical Kitchen Instagram

Tara Michelle’s YouTube

What things should cost TikTok

Lemon juicer

Air Fryer

Trader Joe’s hit list episode

Pasta machine

Alessandra’s Instagram

Chicken meatballs recipe

Shrimp couscous

Pasta amatriciana

Cilantro lime steak bowls

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