Where Did I Save That Recipe? How to Keep Track, Plus 2 Quick Kid-Friendly Meals! Our best home cooking bites of the week + a hotline question answered!

Drowning in recipes?

Whether you’ve got stacks of cookbooks, screenshots galore, or a folder full of old magazine clippings, figuring out how to organize the recipes you love (or want to try) can feel overwhelming. 

In this bite-sized episode, we share what’s working for us and how to make your recipe stash more usable and inspiring.

We’re also sharing the best things we ate this week to inspire each other—and you!

By the end of this episode, you’ll discover two quick, kid-friendly ways to turn a pound of ground meat into a flavorful, filling dinner, and you’ll learn simple, effective ways to organize all those recipes you’ve bookmarked, ripped out, or saved on your phone.

Tune in for a quick, satisfying dose of home cooking inspiration—plus practical answers from our kitchen hotline!

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Links:

Ground beef taco filling similar to what Kari and Sonya make, from Feel Good Foodie

“Middle School Tacos” by Sam Sifton for NYT Cooking - the kind Kari grew up with

A simple version of Arayes from All Recipes, and arayes packed with more herbs from Little Spice Jar

Paprika recipe organizer app, suggested by our listener Roy

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