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Tips for Winter Cleaning
You may be in the practice of spring cleaning, where you focus on deep cleaning areas of your home every spring. While this is a great time to clean areas of your home that don’t get much attention, why not move it a little earlier in your year like winter cleaning? By focusing on this near the beginning of the year, you start your year off right and have less to do in the springtime. Make a List of the Tasks You Have Been Avoiding You can start your winter cleaning new year simply by knowing what needs to be done. Write down all the tasks (cleaning or otherwise) that…
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More Soup Month: Sous Vide Chicken and Bok Choy Soup
It’s still Soup Month! Sous Vide Chicken and Bok Choy Soup is another soup recipe for these winter months! And it uses a cool cooking technique called sous vide (under pressure). In sous vide, the food is typically vacuum-sealed in a bag and cooked to a precise temperature while in a water bath. Sous vide can also refer to simply precision cooking in a water bath without a vacuum bag as well. In either version, it is difficult ( possible if you leave it in the bath too, too long!)to overcook the food with this method because the temperature cannot get any higher than the one you select. Also, the…
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Tips for Selecting New Daily Routines You Will Stick to
Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some of the links below are affiliate links meaning that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you purchase something using the link. Read the full disclaimer policy here. Do you find yourself caught in a cycle of starting a new routine with a bunch of new habits, then failing pretty soon after you begin? You are not a failure, and hope is not lost! All you need is a little tweaking to your routines in order to help them stick. Analyze the Habits and Why You Are Including Them If you don’t know why you…
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National Meat Month: Reverse Sear Strip Steaks
Hello, all you meat-lovers! January is National Meat Month and this week, January 24 – 31 is National Meat Week! The month focus on all meats and meat week focuses on BBQ. I ate a lot more meat as a child than I do now — same with my husband. However, he loves a good steak — on occasion — even now and relishes the opportunity to visit a steak house to get a really good cut of meat cooked right. But now, sitting at a steakhouse — not ideal. So, steak at home! What is a Reverse Sear? The reverse sear is a cooking method where a thick cut…
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Instant Pot® Chicken Noodle Soup
Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some of the links below are affiliate links meaning that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you purchase something using the link. Read the full disclaimer policy here. I love January! It’s my birth month, and it’s National Soup Month. Soup is warm and filling and there are so many different tasty varieties. This recipe today is for a classic… Nothing beats a delicious bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup. Unfortunately, it can be a bit time-consuming to prepare from scratch with a chicken carcass. As a kid, we usually had the canned version of…
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Is There Actually a Perfect Daily Routine?
Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some of the links below are affiliate links meaning that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you purchase something using the link. Read the full disclaimer policy here. When it comes to daily routines, the buzz seems to be about including certain tasks to your morning or nighttime routine in order to make it “ideal”. But the truth is, there is no perfect routine, so you don’t need to try to chase one. It is much better to create a routine with habits that benefit you, help you find balance in your life, and help…
