Hello 2025

and a citrus miso steak salad

Hello and Happy Monday/New Year to my favorite people :)

I am one of those people who like to say that January 6th marks the official kick off to my new year… I really like easing into a refreshed routine rather than waking up with a hangover new years day and going full throttle with a new year-new mindset.

During these few days I prepped my space for success. Cleaned the house, organized my dry storage (because lord knows it needed it), restocked and grocery shopped, wrote down a list of goals and really took some time to re-energize and re-inspire myself for recipes in this new year.

Something I am going to be practicing this year is time management. I struggle keeping on schedule and actually following through with getting my lists and tasks done (let’s blame the ADHD). Wish me luck

My food/kitchen Ins and Outs for 2025

(don’t take this list personal!)

Ins:

• Diversifying your dinner rotation

• Challenging yourself in the kitchen

• Miso Paste

• Deli Containers

• Fun/Personalized Style Coffee Mugs

• Local Meat/Butcher

• Splatter Cookware

• Espresso

• Earlywood Spatulas

• Homemade Broths/Stocks

• Crushed Calabrian Chilies

• Parsnips (they are severely underrated)

• Mezcal

• Gardening

• Baking

• Minimizing food waste

Outs:

• Buying “cool” looking-labeled products- make sure it’s actually worth the extra money, whether it’s because of good farming practices or quality ingredients. Aesthetics shouldn’t be the only reason :).

• Keurigs- pour over/french press is so much better -and better for you.

• teflon

• plastic utensils

• boring salad dressings

• throwing out leftovers/wasting food

• hoarding condiments/cans/dry good (this is a realization after my pantry clean out)

• processed foods

• store bought coffee syrups (it’s cheaper to make your own! I’ll be sharing some soon!)

Citrus Miso Caesar Steak Salad

The thought behind the salad.

I wanted to find a way to use seasonal produce such as frisee and radicchio along with the large variety of citrus that are at the grocery store. Because frisee and radicchio are so bitter they need a fatty and sweet flavor to help balance it out. Hence the caesar-ish dressing