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Sarah Copeland, owner of Edible Living, is an award-winning writer, tastemaker and curator of good living. Read More

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Why is it every night at 10 PM all I can think about is chocolate? ❤️🥰 My hands down favorite recipe for Valentine’s Day, Bittersweet Chocolate Tart with Sea Salt, an oldie but goodie from my first book, (think pure chocolate truffle flavor, in pie form). Recipe is up on my journal — you’re going to need this. [link in profile] ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thedailygram #food52grams #livemoremagic #f52grams #feedfeed #bhgfood #bombesquad #amazonkitchen #tastingtable #foodandwine #foodandwinewomen #bbcgoodfood #wellandgoodeats #chocolatebliss #valentines #f52chocolate #galentines #bedtimesnack KIND IS THE NEW PRETTY 💗 I got to write about this girl’s kind soul, her brother’s love of tutus, and how we practice simple loving acts in our home for the @feed journal. It’s part of a series I’ll be sharing on their site each month, and I’m really excited about it because @feed has been a huge part of reminding me—-and helping me teach my kids—how to give in meaningful, tangible ways as a part of our every day lives. Giving can also happen in really simple ways—like my mamma taught me—in a pan of brownies or a box of shortbread, home-baked and wrapped up for someone who needs a little extra love. Chances are there’s a lot of people like that in your midst, this week especially. Look around you, they are there, and they need to know they matter. Link in my profile for my story, plus a super simple, give-able recipe I think you’ll love💗 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📷: @amyfrancesphoto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #kindnessmatters #kindisthenewpretty #bekind #lovematters #showmorelove #givemore OF COURSE we are not eating heirloom tomatoes in the middle of winter. But. But!! This parmesan chicken breast I developed last summer for @nytcooking has saved many a Monday night dinner since, and tonight is no exception. Any weeknight, with just about any side, this is never the wrong answer. ✨ Link in my stories. I'll share a bunch of my newer @nytcooking recipes there too, including the turkey meatball soup my kids can’t get enough of. 🍲 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photo by @freefrijoles styling by @vivianhlui #nytfood #dinnertonight #noodlelove #feedingthefamily #easydinner #foodwinewomen #eatingwelleats #thenewhealthy #heirloomtomatoes #cutlet This boy was home sick today. AGAIN. On a day I usually have (and need) my thoughts and time to myself, unfolding in hours of mad-dash, excited creative bliss. I count on it, look forward to it every single week. But if I know one thing for sure, it is this: just when you're hitting your stride, motherhood will throw you a curveball. Every time. But I also know this (learned slowly, finally, painfully at times): the more we count on the curveballs to keep coming, the more you'll start to see them as the little gift they really are. I got a dozen of the sweetest little boy kisses today--the kind that warm your soul through and through--and, by some miracle (a miracle called Kat, my amazing, patient intern), I still wrote, cooked and shot two of the most on-fire delicious recipes I've eaten in days. So, take that, curveball. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📷 @amyfrancesphoto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . #livemoremagic #slowliving #mymotherhood #raisingboys #thatsdarling #postthepeople #nothingisordinary #thepursuitofjoyproject #makeportraits #ohheymama #thehappynow #flashesofdelight #pursuepretty #motherhoodrising #gratefulheart❤️ #choosejoy #kitcheninspo #kitchencounterhangs #designinspo #whitekitchen #bossbabes #bomebesquad #foodandwinewomen #honestmotherhood Presumably, you ate wings and queso this weekend, and chocolate is on the horizon. Salad is probably a pretty good idea for today. This mid-winter beauty will bowl you over with flavor and luscious mouthfeel (sorry, I said mouthfeel. 😬 But c’mon—persimmon, avocado, ricotta!! How else do you describe it?). This is my dream salad. Go get it, link in profile. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📷 @heflpop . . . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thedailygram #food52grams #foodporn #livemoremagic #healthyish #eatwellbewell #persimmon #avocadolove #f52grams #feedfeed #plantbasedliving #mostlyvegetarian #glutenfreerecipes #eatmoregreens #makesmewhole #bhgfood #bombesquad #amazonkitchen #tastingtable #foodandwine #foodandwinewomen #bbcgoodfood #wellandgoodeats #iamwellandgood When my friend @amyfrancesphoto sent me this photo two years ago, right after an exhilarating day in the snow, I smiled and thanked her, then immediately filed it away, never to see the light of day. I thought I looked almost too happy—too joyful and alive. As if smiling this big and this freely was boastful or proud. Somehow I’d mixed up laughter and happiness with something to hide away behind a serious, hard-working front, not something to celebrate. If people saw me laughing...having fun, would they no longer take me seriously? If they saw me playing with my children or being silly with a friend instead of putting my head down and working—what, then? ✨ Exactly one week after this photo was taken, I received some devastating news about one of the dearest people in my life. It very nearly broke me. It’s taken me almost two years to be able to laugh this freely again. To live in my joy. To play and have fun, freely. Two heartbreaking, incredible years where so much of life went whizzing by. ✨ This year, though, in the last 31 days, I’ve been doing a lot more of this smiling business. Laughing loudly. Sitting on the couch with my kids, cheering them on in their ridiculous antics. Laughing at my husband’s terrible jokes. Letting go of what others think and what I don’t always accomplish while I’m off having fun. ✨ Because now I realize that living fully is a choice and a gift and an opportunity. It’s the best way to smile at life and thank it for the many, many good things. We know not all of it will be good—but when it is, why not to celebrate more loudly, more gratefully? Why not say it out loud? ✨ So, thank you, January. Thank you 2019. And thank you two very hard years of learning that every single minute is a gift. ✨ And, to you all, thank you for being here. For sticking around when I’m silly and when I’m serious, whether I’m sharing a recipe, or my heart. Us, people—connection—that’s everything. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #livingoutloud #livemoremagic I know, you probably already made dinner tonight, but now’s a perfect time to plan for the next one 😉 there’s four more dinners before the weekend, four more nights of eating in the dark while we wait out winter. Make it something you’re super excited about. That doesn’t mean hard, or time consuming—just packed with flavor. This easy stunner does the trick by a mile. 👆🏻 In case you missed it on the @nytcooking feed this weekend, it’s one of my new offerings—and there’s lots more where this came from. I’ll be sharing my latest recipes in stories (with links!). And, if you’re cooking any of my recipes at home, tag me when you share—it’s been so fun to see them pop up on your dinner table and I’m going to start sharing your photos, too. 🍽 (P.s. yes, you can make this with tofu, or pork, or beef, or chicken—ground is the important detail for super quick meal). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📷 @freefrijoles \\ styling @vivianhlui . . #nytfood #dinnertonight #noodlelove #feedingthefamily #easydinner sleepy mornings with my babies, who suddenly feel like GIANTS. One is on a sleepover today and the other is getting all the attention, and full control of the whisk for a whole weekend, which is his BLISS. 👨‍🍳 . This one was snapped by @tarasgroi and I’m feeling just so grateful for photographers who have become a part of our family life, who slip into our days seamlessly and capture us in our native habitat (kitchen, usually) and also put the camera down and play and talk and laugh and eat with us. This has become totally normal for my kids, but it is only possible because these are exceptional people full of love and light and heart for their work, my work and my family. Thank you, @tarasgroi @gentlandhyers @helfpop @amyfrancesphoto @taradonne . The food we make here disappears fast, but these memories I’ll keep forever. 💗 what happens when you post a picture of your radish salad late at night (after, actually, you just ate three of the pumpkins chocolate chip muffins you made for your son’s preschool class snack)? Let’s find out. These are the kinds of WILD experiments I’m doing in 2019, along with totally ignoring everything that falls under the header SHOULD (ie. should post on Instagram every day). So far I’ve shared very little from our life this year, but what I’ve been doing instead—cuddling my kids on the couch, calling people instead of texting them, reading everything I can get my hands on and cooking insanely delicious, satisfying, ugly-good foods—have been the BEST BEST BEST.✌🏻 . . 📷 @heflpop ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thedailygram #food52grams #foodporn #livemoremagic #oldschoolinternet #eatwellbewell Right after the holidays, I wrote a piece for @Cloth about how to treat your kids without spoiling them. This is so important to me—because as a kid, I migrated to stories (Little House in the Big Woods and my parents’ own tales) about kids who had one doll their whole life, or one or two toys each—and cherished them. My parents stories about how a single orange or one 5-cent piece of candy was the ultimate luxury always captured me. Somehow, even at a very young age, I learned that less is so very often more. But the world many of our own kids is growing up in is a more is more world. From the looks of Instagram and Pinterest, our kids have everything. If I do one thing right in motherhood, I want it to be raising grateful children who grow up to be grateful adults, able to enjoy little pleasures like a cup of tea and a small sweet, and grow to be people who enjoy an experience more than any item or gift. More on this and my favorite, non-spoiling but special ritual with my own kids at the @cloth journal. I hope you’ll give it a read (link in profile) and as always, I’m eager to hear from the other parents out there about your rituals and treasured traditions, right here 👇🏻. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . 📷 @heflpop . #mymotherhood #livemoremagic #thatsdarling #postthepeople #nothingisordinary #thepursuitofjoyproject #makeportraits #ohheymama #thehappynow #flashesofdelight #pursuepretty #motherhoodrising #gratitudejournal belated annual clean start, with all the stunning citrus from my sisters trees in CA ✨ it felt so, so, so good to end one year and start another without apps or screens, surrounded by real people I love, soaking in their faces and their words without distraction. There’s definitely going to be more of that this year, because I came away from those days feeling higher and brighter and shinier than ever, but I didn’t want to miss my chance to say thank you here, too—thank you for being here, especially to those of you who came and stuck around as this space changed for me from food and only food, to food and family and life and FEELINGS. And to those that are new, thank you for coming with an open heart and mind for what I have to share. Thank you for showing up, for sharing and engaging, for your encouragement and love. You guys were a big part of my last year, the reason I keep coming back and I’m so grateful for you. 🙏🏻 now, onward! First weekend of the New Year, make it a good one! 🎉 . . 📷 @heflpop . . #happynewyear #cleanslate #thatweekendlife #eatingclean #everydayissaturday Home (reluctantly) from paradise, and already missing it. This will forever be remembered as the year Greta and I picked and squeezed Meyer lemons for lemonade on Christmas Eve, and went horseback riding on the coast with the cousins instead of sledding in the snow. This is the year we spent Christmas morning on the beach followed by cheeseburgers, poolside; the year of Satsumas in our stockings and endless scoops of ice cream instead of Bouche de Noel and crinkle cookies. And though we were worried there would be an element of magic missing in a California Christmas, we were wrong. Live nativity scenes outside every church and sweet Santa Barbara bungalows colored in lights, singing Christmas carols in the hot tub and sunshine on the skin—-all of it—felt so right. California Christmas, you are good. Man you’re good. We’ll be back. 🍊🌲 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I know everyone is over Christmas, but not us. We got home in the wee hours, and I unpacked just enough to tuck all the presents (already opened in CA) under our tree. The kids woke up on Cali time and Màtyàs ran downstairs and shouted “Santa came, again!” We played right here all morning, collecting on the goodies from the advent calendar we left behind, Christmas crackers and golden crowns.... There are doll shoes and legos and new books and candy wrappers on every surface but for once, I don’t mind, and I’m not moving, at least not today, except maybe to make more panettone toast. little gifts. I hope you’re all still enjoying your people and letting time stand still. ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . #livemoremagic #slowliving #mymotherhood #raisingboys #thatsdarling #postthepeople #nothingisordinary #thepursuitofjoyproject #makeportraits #ohheymama #thehappynow #flashesofdelight #pursuepretty #motherhoodrising #gratefulheart❤️ #choosejoy #secondchristmas #christmasjoy #deckthehalls #christmasagain #foreverchristmas #timeless #christmasmagic #themagicofchristmas #notoveryet When in Venice 🍕☀️ @gjelinarestaurant #californiachristmas #thehappynow #perfectpizza Love + togetherness, greatest gifts on earth. This year we got a whole lot more for Christmas and we couldn’t be more grateful, but these giant smiles and to know we belong to a family who loves deeply (sometimes maddeningly so) is enough—more than enough. Merry Christmas, loves! Wishing you love, joy, peace and most of all each other to hold in the days ahead. ❤️🌲 . 📷@heflpop ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . #merrychristmas #christmasmagic #mymotherhood #livemoremagic #christmasday2018 #grateful #greatfulheart last night we celebrated FIFTY years of my parents’ marriage. 50 years of loving, holding, forgiving, adoring, compromising, laughing, accepting...and eating cake together. When I think about their formula for making love last, I realize it’s a little like a bundt cake—beautiful and easy to dress up, but secretly very simple—based on solid ingredients and heaps of hope. This one, buckwheat chocolate bourbon, is just like them: wholesome but a little surprising, our new repeat favorite (that I promise to share as soon I’m back at my computer). For now, wishing everyone I know this kind of joyful, forgiving, delicious love, all of their days and especially this week. ❤️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . 📷 @heflpop ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #Christmascake #merrychristmas #christmasbaking #christmasbundtcake #holidaymagic #howiholiday #livemoremagic Just days ago, In the pine forest with my girl and a box of cookies we didn’t want to go to waste before our trip. We’ve traded in our layers for loungewear and pines for palm trees, and so far California Christmas is full on dreamy. (Minus the taco overload we had on our first night, which were all still recovering from). None of the boxes of gifts we shipped made it so it’s not going to be easy to pull off Christmas magic on the other side of the country, but the kids keeps reminding me, as we move from SANTA Monica to SANTA Barbara, we’re getting closer to the big guy every day. 🎅🏼 . PS. Cookies are all the beauties from my recent @rachaelraymag story, will link to recipes in stories later today). 📷@heflpop ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #californiachristmas #almostchristmas #christmascookies #christmascookiesfordays #christmastradition⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I planned to write to you about this comforting soup I lean on in times of craziness, like between holidays. It’s warm and nourishing and familiar, like the nubby pink sweater I’ve lived in the last two weeks. But late last night I filed my last recipes, closed down my computer and tucked swimsuits into over-stuffed bags. This morning we drove to JFK, boarded a flight to LAX and now here we are, surrounded by sunshine and palm trees. It’s the most untraditional thing we’ve ever done for Christmas, but the last two months my mantra has been “do something different,” and so far the surprises that have come with have been their own reward. Like today: kids, eyes wide and joyful, totally open-hearted to this adventure. This trip in this (crazy) year feels exactly right, the opposite of a warm soup and nubby sweater—but nourishing all the same. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tonight we stuffed our self silly on tacos, and will fall asleep by an ocean breeze. Tomorrow, if we’re lucky, we’ll dip our big toe in, eat the world’s best pizza and stare at the sun, coatless, in December. Which is a long winded way of saying: sometimes familiar and comforting is wonderful, but sometimes fresh and new is everything you need. ☀️#WelcometoLA #ChristmasinCalifornia ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📷 @heflpop ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This beauty was in print in the @nytcooking on Wednesday and on their feed today. You’ll need this one for the holidays because it’s every bit as satisfying and crowd-pleasing as it looks. You can top this cheesy polenta bake with anything you dream up—eggs, meat, tons of veg...As @emweinstein + @emofly brilliantly penned in the headline, it’s the Christmas morning casserole that can also dress up for a party. Bookmark this one—nine days till showtime (link in profile). 🍳🎄 . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📷 @romuloyanes / styling @vivianhlui . . #christmasbreakfast #cheesyeggs #holidaybrunch #brunchrecipes #nytcooking #nytimesfood #eggcasserole #putaneggonit Ill be honest, it’s been a week of runny noses, canceled shoots and kids in bed with me around the clock, but this boy makes it hard not to feel like we’re still winning at life. ❤️ . 📷 | @heflpop .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . #livemoremagic #slowliving #mymotherhood #raisingboys #thatsdarling #postthepeople #nothingisordinary #thepursuitofjoyproject #makeportraits #ohheymama #thehappynow #flashesofdelight #pursuepretty #motherhoodrising #gratefulheart❤️ #choosejoy #kitcheninspo #kitchencounterhangs #designinspo #subwaytile #whitekitchen
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