This week the gals make pumpkin bread, lentils & sweet potatoes, and cover a litany of important topics, including: frozen yogurt, phone baking, finding your journey, a new game called recipe roulette, and Guy Fieri.

This week we make black bean burgers + mac and cheese, discuss smoothies (spoiler: they are bad), and the unveiling of the new BA video team. 

welcome to the first episode of easy-ish! a lil ~rebrand~ for ur girls but fear not—we'll be delivering the same delicious content, just with a little upgrade. on episode one, AA & MM discuss the need for our easy-ish change, what's going on in the world (lol), and some treats. namely: apple cheddar hand pies and black and white cookies.

Tag along with us (wow sorry) on our Girl Scout Cookie journey. Alissa went with the Tagalong developed by Claire Saffitz on Gourmet Makes, while Marie made the NYT Cooking Giant Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookie by Erin McDowell, which is basically just a huge Tagalong the size of a cake. Wow! PB & Chocolate lovers, this one's for you.

We made food from the March issue of Bon Appetit several weeks ago, and boy oh boy is the world different now! Tune in for chicken katsu content, crispy chickpea & and sweet potato content, and, duh, COVID content. 

This week our *~secret ingredient~* was farro! This ancient grain is a fave of Alissa's (Marie is a bandwagon fan) and it did not disappoint! Samin Nosrat's Farro e Pepe and Alison Roman's Creamy Farro With Crispy Mushrooms and Sour Cream (both from NYT Cooking) are on the ep. Mia Farro is not. Farro Fawcett also couldn't make it. They had a prior...engraingement—okay sorry sorry just push play already!!!!

This week we're test driving yet another new thing: restaurant reviews! For our first foray, we dined at Emilie's, a new-ish spot in DC's Eastern Market neighb. Check it out and feel free to give US a review of this format. If you hate it, that's fine! We hate most things (but, spoiler alert, we don't hate Emilie's)! What fun!

It's officially a fortnight of legumes here at How Easy studios and we've never bean better! Actually we're incredibly full because beans are an excellent source of protein, but that didn't stop us from trying our hand at two kinds of Black Beans and Rice this week. Alissa worked off a couple of BA recipes while Marie turned to her childhood friend for the salsa secreto, if you will. How easy is that?

We accidentally both made shrimp and white beans, so here we are, at the battle royale of a random food combo that literally no one asked for! What a thrill! How easy is that?!

We're back from our accidental hiatus to do something we've never done before: a rundown of our food journey through a city! For 48 blissful hours we ate and drank (mostly tea, tbh) our way through Nashville. Hear about the highs, the lows, and where to do in Music City.