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First, I love all the food involved – my mother’s matzo ball soup, brisket and roasted veggies, charoses, and even gefilte fish with lots and lots of horseradish. Chicken soup (for matzo ball soup or really any other chicken soup recipe): (you want to be able to fish them out of the soup) 3-4 celery stalks – cut into chunks like the carrots (you can throw them in with the leaves still on them – totally fine) thyme – 2 or 3 fresh sprigs or less dried Add the chicken to a large soup pot. Discard all the vegetables and herbs, unless you like cooked carrots in your soup (then keep them, slice them, and add them back to the broth).

Choose a theme for your words – I chose food and cooking words because the curtains were for my dining room – and the script you want to use Take one area in your home that needs organizing, set a timer for twenty or thirty minutes, and get to it! But if you just take one area – a small closet, your pantry, your kitchen cabinets, for example – and set a timer, you can knock out that area in a short amount of time. Take one room that you’ve wanted to rearrange or you’ve wondered if the furniture is in the right place, and rearrange it.

I’m going to go room by room, and today, for the first installment, I’m going to focus on how to update a bathroom on a budget. One of the easiest ways to update the look of your bathroom is by swapping out the regular bulbs and outdated shades for some vintage-style Edison bulbs. I did this project again for our guest bathroom: A gallon of paint costs between $25-50 (depending on brand) and can completely change the look and feel of a room. Here’s what our guest bath looked like before: And now, the after: In our old house – the kids’ bathroom, before: And the kids’ bathroom, after: And neither project featured above used more than a gallon of paint!

My mother once said that, to be a good cook, you need two things: (1) good recipes and (2) good kitchen tools. but I keep frozen chicken on hand), a jar of salsa, and chicken broth to cover in the slow cooker. It’s also good for cooking meat with a good sear on it (non-stick skillets won’t give you that same crusty goodness). The key to keeping a cast iron skillet in good working order is to make sure it’s seasoned.