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Greek Salad ⚡️ it’s been my back pocket summer go to for years, but I found new love for it again while writing my latest book because, at its heart it’s a formula for crunchy, salty, briny, fresh all in one that results in one big magic burst of flavor. There’s no wrong way to do it, but I love it best with big ole chunks of anything that’s in season at the moment— tomatoes, obviously, peppers, cucumbers and onion, but why not tomatillos? The day we shot this image for the book, purple tomatillos and stunning amaranth leaves arrived in my CSA box, so I tossed them in and the result was pure beauty and flavor.
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Be adventurous, go big on texture and lavish on oil and Maldon salt. If you have access to flowering herbs they bring it in the flavor and beauty categories. Best of all, no cooking and heaps of satisfaction. 💥
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My other favorite no cook summer dinner is live on @saveurmag today, a deep dive on the Hungarian Snacking Tray from the book—too much to say for IG, so have a read! I’m crazy about this one. (Thank you, @stacy_adimando !!) . 📷@gentlandhyers
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #nocook #summerdinner #f52salad

Channeling our inner Italian 🍑 We just booked tickets to ROME in our way to Hungary this summer, and I’m so, so exited to show this girl and her brother what it means to truly live a little—Italian style: big plates of pasta and piles of stone fruits and endless scoops of gelato. Today Greta came with me to my last book event of the summer, charming with her sweet smile and loving energy, and afterward she took the spending money she’d been earning all summer and bought this hat for trip. On the way home she asked me if we could stop to pick peaches (um yes, always!!!) and I was telling her about the time I traveled in Italy in my early twenties, while I was working as a private chef in St. Tropez. I had a week off with no plans and just started driving, straight across the border, stopping in little villages and seaside towns to eat and sleep and swim—a whole week of solo bliss. On the drive back toward France, just before the border, I met a tiny woman on the side of the road, wrinkled from head to toe, selling peaches from her trees. I stopped and asked her how much and I remember when she told me the price it was so low that assumed she meant per peach—but it was the price for the whole flat. At that time, scraping together pennies, it felt like I discovered a pot of pure gold. I bought two flats and drove the whole way back to France with the smell of summer perfuming the whole way. I ate them by the handful, and still had enough to make the most decadent peach pavlova for the family in France for dessert our first night back. I still crave a peach that good. .

I hadn’t thought about any of that in a very long time—Italy, that summer, those peaches—but my girl has a way of bringing me back to old parts of me, forgotten and happy and a bit more carefree. I’ll forever be my best in her company. 💛 .
Please send all the Rome spots our way, it’s been a loooong time for me and I’m so ready to soak it all in. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#italyvibes #peachpicking #andnorth #italybound

Cherry season is rocking my world right now! 🍒 I have been gobbling cherries from Seattle to California and am home just in time to capture the Balaton sours (a Hungarian breed, naturally) in our own backyard. I admit that we did not make my Johnny cakes with Rhubarb and Sour Cherries this morning (Me and Greta—mostly Greta—we’re busy baking 100 fresh Chocolate Chip Cookies for my event today!) but I have made them a least 12 times in the last 6 weeks and you should—because this recipe is live in @oprahmagazine this month, along with all my hot tips on how to squeeze pancakes into weekdays, and what to replace the rhubarb and sours with when the seasons change (Hint: anything you love, but especially peaches and blackberries). Dive into these fluffy stacks while the stone fruits are hot. 🍒🍒 .

AND: come see me today for cookies, pink bubbles and all the cookies and bundt cake at the cutest corner shop North of NYC—@pinkolive, Cold Spring (I’ll be there 11 to 3 PM and Grace, my friend/owner of the shop is offering a free giveaway with purchase while supplies last).
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Stunning photo by @gentlandhyers @andreagentl @martinhyers one of the first images we shot for the book and still one of my favorites. 🔥
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #everydayissaturday #sourcherryseason #rhubarb

These two loves have been VERY good sports about how busy their mama has been this summer—but I am so ready to put aside all the things and take these monkeys to the circus tonight! I know, hottest nights ever to sit in a tent, I am borderline crazy. 🎪 (@hudsonworkshop wisely passed on this sweltering experience because he’s also been a VERY good sport juggling it all between super exciting projects of his own—and it’s his turn for a breather). ✨

In May when I looked at the calendar and the plans I had ahead, I wondered if I’d later feel I missed our whole summer. What would happen to their dreamy childhood while I was gone for six weeks? Mamas are the keeper of the magic, the glue, the ones sprinkling the fairy dust. But you know what, in my absence, my husband and my parents and teachers and neighbors stepped in with their own fairy dust. 💫

And these kids—most kids—are happy at home and happy at camp, happy for every minute we squeeze together on a picnic blanket. They’re happy whether it’s sweltering hot or pouring rain, soaking in every ice cream cone and movie night under the stars. They are present, open-hearted. And, I’m thanking my lucky stars, they don’t judge or begrudge me any of these days away because for the first time, in a VERY, VERY long time, I put myself and my creative life at the top of my list. It felt good. It was time. Yep, the kids are all right, in fact, they learned a bit about hard work and sacrifice and still seizing every ounce of magic sandwiched right in between. ✨

So all you mamas (+ papas!) out there hustling and dreaming and worrying that summer is passing you by: breathe. All is well. Weekend hard with your people, and then dive back in. Your dreams are worth it. . 📷 @amyfrancesphoto .

#livemoremagic #everydayissaturday #kitchencounterhangs

Secret Weapons ⚡️⚡️ if you don’t have picked onions (and a chimichurri-ish green sauce) in your summer flavor arsenal, it’s time to get on board. They are the easiest way to add color, flavor, crunch and tang, to anything from tacos to tartines, burgers, salads and sandwiches—and all your epic summer grazing boards. I make these and my Only-Green-Sauce once a week, jar them and dish them out on the regular, bring them to parties and send them home with friends. They’re a little tool I picked up from restaurant life 15+ years ago, but I learned from my friend Doris that olive oil and herbs (really, any herbs you love—I like them with parsley and cilantro—add them after you pickle them, but before you serve them) makes these ruby beauties even better and softer on the tongue. .
What is your favorite summer flavor trick? Lining up my from-the-fridge dinner plans until this heat breaks. 🔥
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(Recipe in PROJECTS chapter of Every Day is Saturday) .
📷 @gentlandhyers @andreagentl @martinhyers .
#everydayissaturdaycookbook #nocook #pickles #flavorbomb

HEY NEW YORK 💫 I have my FINAL THREE book events for July this week—before I head out for a proper vacay with this girl. Come say hi, and get a signed copy of EVERY DAY IS SATURDAY before summer (and melons) disappear. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
THURSDAY, JULY 18
With my friend and @bonappetitmag 🌟@moroccochris | 7:30 - 8: 30 PM
THE STRAND, NEW YORK⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
@strandbookstore ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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SATURDAY, JULY 20
PINK OLIVE, COLD SPRINGS, NY
80 Main St, Cold Spring, NY 10516
@pinkolive ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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SUNDAY, JULY 21 | 11AM - 12:30PM
LE CREUSET, WOODBURY COMMONS⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
498 Red Apple Ct Central Valley, NY 10917
@lecreuset ********** photo by @andreagentl, precious summer daysz with my baby girl. 🍉 ********* .
#everydayissaturdaycookbook #everydayissaturday #watermelon #summermagic #watermelonbaby #booktour

People keep asking me if I am tired yet. Yep, I’m tired. Tired. Full. Home. Happy. And not going anywhere for four whole days. 💫 #booktour #stayingrighthere

Plums! Cherries! Watermelon! Figs!! 🍒🍉
I’m a muesli girl through and through but summer is my absolute favorite time to make it, when all the fruits are bursting with water and flavor—it keeps breakfast juicy and light and fills half your bowl with antioxidants and color—while the other half is packed with nuts (almonds, pistachio, pecans), seeds (sesame, pumpkin, poppy) and just a small bit of toasted oats (and WAY less sugar than granola or boxed cereals). ✨

This Many Seed Muesli is on p. 22 of my book and I LOVE seeing so many of you discover it and top it so beautifully (berries are also an obvious win!). It’s a great make-ahead to tackle this weekend and have in your arsenal all week long. And, for the skeptics: there’s no wrong way to make muesli, so top it with what you love, splash with the milk of your choice—it’s bound to be delicious.
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Meanwhile, I’m still on the west coast munching cherries like a fiend and wizzing off to Camarillo for another day with @lecreuset, making more pancakes and sampling my Chocolate Chip Cookies from the book. Come say hi and help me soak in my last days in La-La land. ⚡️
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#evrrydayissaturdaycookbook #muesliforpresident #weekendvibes

A cook book tour, or at least this one, is fueled by pizza + love + so many gorgeous salads shared with many gorgeous people—people who show up and make time, who shine their light on you and call their friends and rally the troops and make a small fuss— a village who together do way more for birthing my book into the world than I could ever do on my own. Today I’m in L.A. where the light feels just like it did on the magical summer day @andreagentl + @martinhyers and I shot this image for the book—and the feeling inside my heart is just the same. Wow. Grateful. Grateful I get to do this work every day. Grateful I get to celebrate one of the most pleasurable, nourishing aspects of being human with my words and recipes. Grateful I’ve been blessed with the most inspiring makers and artists and collaborators and friends who lift me up and make me better. Grateful, grateful, grateful. ✨ .

L.A., I slept like a dream under your stars and I’m so ready for all you have to offer. Thank you for having me, a formerly shy, bookish girl from the Midwest (who first came here at age 12-–fluffy bangs and braces and all)—and letting me show you what I’ve got. ⚡️🙏🏼
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Come see me + @benbmims tonight at @nowservingla ⚡️7:30 PM ⚡️
727 North Broadway
Los Angeles, CA .
#welcometoLA #everydayissaturdaycookbook #everydayissaturday #f52salad #thatlalife

This is me, after an awesome morning shooting @foodnetwork , on a train racing north towards my babies before I fly again to LA. This is me, not looking forward, not looking backward. Not apologizing. Not having mom guilt. Not wondering what I’m missing or who’s missing me. Not worried. Not tip-toeing or shrinking or shying away from big, audacious goals. This is me, small town and big city and a little bit country, too. This is me setting clearer boundaries and making mistakes and trying again and owning it. This is me, present, hopeful, happy, grateful.
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This is the work of @tarasophiamohr + @brenebrown + @elizabeth_gilbert_writer + @marieforleo and so many more. This is the work of God, of my parents, of deeply meaningful female friendships, of sisterhood. This IS the work. So much work. But even more—so much love. .
Thanks for being here and seeing me —the whole me—through it all. ♥️ .
#thiswomanswork #grateful

I live for July—cherries and melons and hot summer nights. Just before my last trip I cracked open our first good melon and now it’s all I want to eat, wrapped in prosciutto, sprinkled with Parm, tossed with wild greens and drizzled with caper berries and all that good jus. Recipe will be up on my site in a bit, with this dreamy shot @nschinco and I made together, with handfuls of greens plucked straight from my garden (before we ate the whole plate). Travel is awesome, yes, but man, being home in the summer with a meal like this can not be topped. 💫
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#everydayissaturday #italyvibes #summeringhard #proscuittodiparma #proscuitto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

FRIENDS 🎉 I’m heading home to the Catskills for a book signing tomorrow, Sunday, at my favorite barn on earth—@ravenwoodny stunning, beautifully curated farm shop. Come for pastries, fine art, the dreamiest produce and signed copies of Every Day is Saturday! 10 AM to NOON (Pastries sell out quick so come early!). I’m so excited to see you all! .

RAVENWOOD
579 Samsonville Road
Kerhonkson, NY .
📷 @annathewolf for @dominomag .
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #booktour #upstatenewyork #catskills #ulstercounty #andnorth #andnorthweekend #weekending #farmshop #escapebrooklyn

This week I escaped my work brain and (a so far, glorious!) book tour into the land of my people, the homes of my sister and my parents and now my brother—the land of endless watermelon and foraged black raspberries, of exceptional home brews and two desserts a day, of cousin love and chlorine baths and extra hands to watch my kids, of 48- hour marinades and green-egg-smoked suppers I had nothing to do with. Basically, paradise. Here is a place I get to show up and just enjoy, to sit back and relish, refill my cup and my bowl again and again without judgment or favors due in return. Just love, pure love. .

That’s what this dish, the Vacation-Fruit-Salad from the front pages of my book is all about—not a recipe, per se, but more a reminder: we all deserve a little rest and respite. A good life includes some moments of ease, no matter how hard we work every other day. It’s OK if it occasionally feels like laziness— a bit of a duh, that was almost too easy, but still so good. Like curling up with a movie and popcorn instead of inventing yet one more craft to keep your kids busy on summer break. Like ordering pizza when you’ve stayed at the pool too long and you’re too tired to cook. Like, occasionally, letting the people you love step up and replenish your own reserves. This took me a LONG time to arrive at—years and years of un-training a tireless work ethic while I watched others around me simply relax and enjoy. Because what is it all for, if not for the moment of leaning into rest and pleasure when it finally comes? .

So hooray, endless long weekend, I’m so grateful for you. I very much hope this weekend—and next, and the next-and the next—delivers on all this good stuff for you. 🍉
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📷@gentlandhyers
#everydayissaturdaycookbook #leweekend #endlessweekend #summering

BUCKWHEAT BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES 💫 one of my two favorite pancake recipes in Every Day is Saturday. The other—the Johnny Cakes with Rhubarb and Sour Cherries I am making today at @lecreuset outlet in Rosemont, Chicago @fashionchicago (come say hi!!). ✨
I believe a pancake can and should be easy, gorgeous and totally delicious—and as importantly—not give you pancake belly. It’s why I think and test and eat and think some more before I decide what two or three pancakes or waffles will make it into each book.
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This one is my kids’ absolute favorite—and requires no egg—a smart thing to make when you’re low on ingredients. It’s packed with bananas and chocolate and tastes like a big treat, but thanks to the buckwheat, makes me feel like super mama as my kids gobble them down. These sweet little hands belong to our friend June, who waited so patiently while @gentlandhyers got this shot, before she could dive in. Her mama, the most joyful @fridakristins spent dozens of beautiful days with me testing and shooting my book and her papa @tsimages (half of @kingstonstandard) baked all the gorgeous handmade sourdough breads you see in the book’s toast chapter. They came into our lives right as we moved upstate and they are total GEMS. ✨
Happy Birthday, Tait and happy pancake eating to all your great loves! 🥞
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #chocolatechippancakes

Yesterday I had the pleasure of feeding a fabulous groups of Chicago ladies full of soul and generosity. Everyone keeps asking if book tour is exhausting, but in each new city there’s are old friends and new smiling faces and warm welcomes that are so heartfelt and uplifting that I feel the excitement of sharing my book totally new and alive again! ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Today I will be at @readitandeatstore Chicago signing copies of Every Day is Saturday at 2 PM, and tomorrow at the @lecreuset store in Rosemont (@fashionchicago). Please come say hi!!
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In the meantime, I give you this Greek Salad (sort of) that I made yesterday and everyone is latching into with gusto—this time I made it with tomatillos (raw) and peppers and cucumbers and creamy Bulgarian Feta, wild sorrel and arugula flowers (but any flowering herb makes it special!). Finish with lemon juice and a lavish drizzle of your very best oil. It’s the weekend, make it count. 🎉

#everydayissaturdaycookbook #booktour #weekendvibes

home with my favorites in the garden of delights ✨ I leave again in the morning, but we had three magical days. Not rainbows and unicorns magic. There were dishes in the sink and many hours at my desk. My kids spilled and whined, as kids do. I still felt the pressure of never done, never quite finished. But somewhere between the groggy red-rye that brought me home and this quiet moment, as I pack again, was everything I’ve ever wanted this life to be. 💛
To be honest, I was worried I’d lost them—to iPads and babysitters and the things you do to get by when your world is moving so fast; I thought the magic might be slipping through my fingers, that perhaps I was even letting it. So for these three days I did what I know—I softened butter and laid out slabs of chocolate for baking chocolate loaves. I packed extra kids in my car and headed to the strawberry fields to glean the last little jewels. I packed pool snacks and handed out popsicles. And today, during the last half-day of school, I lined up rows of lemons and berries, waiting for them, willing my fingers to move faster on my keyboard to finish one last deadline on time. After the bell rang and after all the goodbyes for the summer, we stood at the counter—Màtyàs, Greta and I, smashing berries and lemons into homemade lemonade. I boiled hot dogs and cut cucumbers, and the kids spread out blankets under the tree. We laughed and ate, dipping bunless hot dogs into the mustard jar. After, I was still for the first time in weeks, legs stretched long on the blanket. Both kids curled into the soft edges of me, packing their bodies so close as if willing the moment to never end. ✨
Traveling solo right now is a little dream for me, one I am really enjoying, but in these moments, between roast chicken and warm chocolate snacking loaves, between whipped cream-covered kisses and humid, summer-day pile-ups on a picnic blanket, I am whole.

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follow along on instagram: @edibleliving

Greek Salad ⚡️ it’s been my back pocket summer go to for years, but I found new love for it again while writing my latest book because, at its heart it’s a formula for crunchy, salty, briny, fresh all in one that results in one big magic burst of flavor. There’s no wrong way to do it, but I love it best with big ole chunks of anything that’s in season at the moment— tomatoes, obviously, peppers, cucumbers and onion, but why not tomatillos? The day we shot this image for the book, purple tomatillos and stunning amaranth leaves arrived in my CSA box, so I tossed them in and the result was pure beauty and flavor.
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Be adventurous, go big on texture and lavish on oil and Maldon salt. If you have access to flowering herbs they bring it in the flavor and beauty categories. Best of all, no cooking and heaps of satisfaction. 💥
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My other favorite no cook summer dinner is live on @saveurmag today, a deep dive on the Hungarian Snacking Tray from the book—too much to say for IG, so have a read! I’m crazy about this one. (Thank you, @stacy_adimando !!) . 📷@gentlandhyers
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #nocook #summerdinner #f52salad

Channeling our inner Italian 🍑 We just booked tickets to ROME in our way to Hungary this summer, and I’m so, so exited to show this girl and her brother what it means to truly live a little—Italian style: big plates of pasta and piles of stone fruits and endless scoops of gelato. Today Greta came with me to my last book event of the summer, charming with her sweet smile and loving energy, and afterward she took the spending money she’d been earning all summer and bought this hat for trip. On the way home she asked me if we could stop to pick peaches (um yes, always!!!) and I was telling her about the time I traveled in Italy in my early twenties, while I was working as a private chef in St. Tropez. I had a week off with no plans and just started driving, straight across the border, stopping in little villages and seaside towns to eat and sleep and swim—a whole week of solo bliss. On the drive back toward France, just before the border, I met a tiny woman on the side of the road, wrinkled from head to toe, selling peaches from her trees. I stopped and asked her how much and I remember when she told me the price it was so low that assumed she meant per peach—but it was the price for the whole flat. At that time, scraping together pennies, it felt like I discovered a pot of pure gold. I bought two flats and drove the whole way back to France with the smell of summer perfuming the whole way. I ate them by the handful, and still had enough to make the most decadent peach pavlova for the family in France for dessert our first night back. I still crave a peach that good. .

I hadn’t thought about any of that in a very long time—Italy, that summer, those peaches—but my girl has a way of bringing me back to old parts of me, forgotten and happy and a bit more carefree. I’ll forever be my best in her company. 💛 .
Please send all the Rome spots our way, it’s been a loooong time for me and I’m so ready to soak it all in. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#italyvibes #peachpicking #andnorth #italybound

Cherry season is rocking my world right now! 🍒 I have been gobbling cherries from Seattle to California and am home just in time to capture the Balaton sours (a Hungarian breed, naturally) in our own backyard. I admit that we did not make my Johnny cakes with Rhubarb and Sour Cherries this morning (Me and Greta—mostly Greta—we’re busy baking 100 fresh Chocolate Chip Cookies for my event today!) but I have made them a least 12 times in the last 6 weeks and you should—because this recipe is live in @oprahmagazine this month, along with all my hot tips on how to squeeze pancakes into weekdays, and what to replace the rhubarb and sours with when the seasons change (Hint: anything you love, but especially peaches and blackberries). Dive into these fluffy stacks while the stone fruits are hot. 🍒🍒 .

AND: come see me today for cookies, pink bubbles and all the cookies and bundt cake at the cutest corner shop North of NYC—@pinkolive, Cold Spring (I’ll be there 11 to 3 PM and Grace, my friend/owner of the shop is offering a free giveaway with purchase while supplies last).
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Stunning photo by @gentlandhyers @andreagentl @martinhyers one of the first images we shot for the book and still one of my favorites. 🔥
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #everydayissaturday #sourcherryseason #rhubarb

These two loves have been VERY good sports about how busy their mama has been this summer—but I am so ready to put aside all the things and take these monkeys to the circus tonight! I know, hottest nights ever to sit in a tent, I am borderline crazy. 🎪 (@hudsonworkshop wisely passed on this sweltering experience because he’s also been a VERY good sport juggling it all between super exciting projects of his own—and it’s his turn for a breather). ✨

In May when I looked at the calendar and the plans I had ahead, I wondered if I’d later feel I missed our whole summer. What would happen to their dreamy childhood while I was gone for six weeks? Mamas are the keeper of the magic, the glue, the ones sprinkling the fairy dust. But you know what, in my absence, my husband and my parents and teachers and neighbors stepped in with their own fairy dust. 💫

And these kids—most kids—are happy at home and happy at camp, happy for every minute we squeeze together on a picnic blanket. They’re happy whether it’s sweltering hot or pouring rain, soaking in every ice cream cone and movie night under the stars. They are present, open-hearted. And, I’m thanking my lucky stars, they don’t judge or begrudge me any of these days away because for the first time, in a VERY, VERY long time, I put myself and my creative life at the top of my list. It felt good. It was time. Yep, the kids are all right, in fact, they learned a bit about hard work and sacrifice and still seizing every ounce of magic sandwiched right in between. ✨

So all you mamas (+ papas!) out there hustling and dreaming and worrying that summer is passing you by: breathe. All is well. Weekend hard with your people, and then dive back in. Your dreams are worth it. . 📷 @amyfrancesphoto .

#livemoremagic #everydayissaturday #kitchencounterhangs

Secret Weapons ⚡️⚡️ if you don’t have picked onions (and a chimichurri-ish green sauce) in your summer flavor arsenal, it’s time to get on board. They are the easiest way to add color, flavor, crunch and tang, to anything from tacos to tartines, burgers, salads and sandwiches—and all your epic summer grazing boards. I make these and my Only-Green-Sauce once a week, jar them and dish them out on the regular, bring them to parties and send them home with friends. They’re a little tool I picked up from restaurant life 15+ years ago, but I learned from my friend Doris that olive oil and herbs (really, any herbs you love—I like them with parsley and cilantro—add them after you pickle them, but before you serve them) makes these ruby beauties even better and softer on the tongue. .
What is your favorite summer flavor trick? Lining up my from-the-fridge dinner plans until this heat breaks. 🔥
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(Recipe in PROJECTS chapter of Every Day is Saturday) .
📷 @gentlandhyers @andreagentl @martinhyers .
#everydayissaturdaycookbook #nocook #pickles #flavorbomb

HEY NEW YORK 💫 I have my FINAL THREE book events for July this week—before I head out for a proper vacay with this girl. Come say hi, and get a signed copy of EVERY DAY IS SATURDAY before summer (and melons) disappear. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
THURSDAY, JULY 18
With my friend and @bonappetitmag 🌟@moroccochris | 7:30 - 8: 30 PM
THE STRAND, NEW YORK⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
@strandbookstore ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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SATURDAY, JULY 20
PINK OLIVE, COLD SPRINGS, NY
80 Main St, Cold Spring, NY 10516
@pinkolive ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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SUNDAY, JULY 21 | 11AM - 12:30PM
LE CREUSET, WOODBURY COMMONS⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
498 Red Apple Ct Central Valley, NY 10917
@lecreuset ********** photo by @andreagentl, precious summer daysz with my baby girl. 🍉 ********* .
#everydayissaturdaycookbook #everydayissaturday #watermelon #summermagic #watermelonbaby #booktour

People keep asking me if I am tired yet. Yep, I’m tired. Tired. Full. Home. Happy. And not going anywhere for four whole days. 💫 #booktour #stayingrighthere

Plums! Cherries! Watermelon! Figs!! 🍒🍉
I’m a muesli girl through and through but summer is my absolute favorite time to make it, when all the fruits are bursting with water and flavor—it keeps breakfast juicy and light and fills half your bowl with antioxidants and color—while the other half is packed with nuts (almonds, pistachio, pecans), seeds (sesame, pumpkin, poppy) and just a small bit of toasted oats (and WAY less sugar than granola or boxed cereals). ✨

This Many Seed Muesli is on p. 22 of my book and I LOVE seeing so many of you discover it and top it so beautifully (berries are also an obvious win!). It’s a great make-ahead to tackle this weekend and have in your arsenal all week long. And, for the skeptics: there’s no wrong way to make muesli, so top it with what you love, splash with the milk of your choice—it’s bound to be delicious.
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Meanwhile, I’m still on the west coast munching cherries like a fiend and wizzing off to Camarillo for another day with @lecreuset, making more pancakes and sampling my Chocolate Chip Cookies from the book. Come say hi and help me soak in my last days in La-La land. ⚡️
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#evrrydayissaturdaycookbook #muesliforpresident #weekendvibes

A cook book tour, or at least this one, is fueled by pizza + love + so many gorgeous salads shared with many gorgeous people—people who show up and make time, who shine their light on you and call their friends and rally the troops and make a small fuss— a village who together do way more for birthing my book into the world than I could ever do on my own. Today I’m in L.A. where the light feels just like it did on the magical summer day @andreagentl + @martinhyers and I shot this image for the book—and the feeling inside my heart is just the same. Wow. Grateful. Grateful I get to do this work every day. Grateful I get to celebrate one of the most pleasurable, nourishing aspects of being human with my words and recipes. Grateful I’ve been blessed with the most inspiring makers and artists and collaborators and friends who lift me up and make me better. Grateful, grateful, grateful. ✨ .

L.A., I slept like a dream under your stars and I’m so ready for all you have to offer. Thank you for having me, a formerly shy, bookish girl from the Midwest (who first came here at age 12-–fluffy bangs and braces and all)—and letting me show you what I’ve got. ⚡️🙏🏼
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Come see me + @benbmims tonight at @nowservingla ⚡️7:30 PM ⚡️
727 North Broadway
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#welcometoLA #everydayissaturdaycookbook #everydayissaturday #f52salad #thatlalife

This is me, after an awesome morning shooting @foodnetwork , on a train racing north towards my babies before I fly again to LA. This is me, not looking forward, not looking backward. Not apologizing. Not having mom guilt. Not wondering what I’m missing or who’s missing me. Not worried. Not tip-toeing or shrinking or shying away from big, audacious goals. This is me, small town and big city and a little bit country, too. This is me setting clearer boundaries and making mistakes and trying again and owning it. This is me, present, hopeful, happy, grateful.
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This is the work of @tarasophiamohr + @brenebrown + @elizabeth_gilbert_writer + @marieforleo and so many more. This is the work of God, of my parents, of deeply meaningful female friendships, of sisterhood. This IS the work. So much work. But even more—so much love. .
Thanks for being here and seeing me —the whole me—through it all. ♥️ .
#thiswomanswork #grateful

I live for July—cherries and melons and hot summer nights. Just before my last trip I cracked open our first good melon and now it’s all I want to eat, wrapped in prosciutto, sprinkled with Parm, tossed with wild greens and drizzled with caper berries and all that good jus. Recipe will be up on my site in a bit, with this dreamy shot @nschinco and I made together, with handfuls of greens plucked straight from my garden (before we ate the whole plate). Travel is awesome, yes, but man, being home in the summer with a meal like this can not be topped. 💫
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FRIENDS 🎉 I’m heading home to the Catskills for a book signing tomorrow, Sunday, at my favorite barn on earth—@ravenwoodny stunning, beautifully curated farm shop. Come for pastries, fine art, the dreamiest produce and signed copies of Every Day is Saturday! 10 AM to NOON (Pastries sell out quick so come early!). I’m so excited to see you all! .

RAVENWOOD
579 Samsonville Road
Kerhonkson, NY .
📷 @annathewolf for @dominomag .
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #booktour #upstatenewyork #catskills #ulstercounty #andnorth #andnorthweekend #weekending #farmshop #escapebrooklyn

This week I escaped my work brain and (a so far, glorious!) book tour into the land of my people, the homes of my sister and my parents and now my brother—the land of endless watermelon and foraged black raspberries, of exceptional home brews and two desserts a day, of cousin love and chlorine baths and extra hands to watch my kids, of 48- hour marinades and green-egg-smoked suppers I had nothing to do with. Basically, paradise. Here is a place I get to show up and just enjoy, to sit back and relish, refill my cup and my bowl again and again without judgment or favors due in return. Just love, pure love. .

That’s what this dish, the Vacation-Fruit-Salad from the front pages of my book is all about—not a recipe, per se, but more a reminder: we all deserve a little rest and respite. A good life includes some moments of ease, no matter how hard we work every other day. It’s OK if it occasionally feels like laziness— a bit of a duh, that was almost too easy, but still so good. Like curling up with a movie and popcorn instead of inventing yet one more craft to keep your kids busy on summer break. Like ordering pizza when you’ve stayed at the pool too long and you’re too tired to cook. Like, occasionally, letting the people you love step up and replenish your own reserves. This took me a LONG time to arrive at—years and years of un-training a tireless work ethic while I watched others around me simply relax and enjoy. Because what is it all for, if not for the moment of leaning into rest and pleasure when it finally comes? .

So hooray, endless long weekend, I’m so grateful for you. I very much hope this weekend—and next, and the next-and the next—delivers on all this good stuff for you. 🍉
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📷@gentlandhyers
#everydayissaturdaycookbook #leweekend #endlessweekend #summering

BUCKWHEAT BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES 💫 one of my two favorite pancake recipes in Every Day is Saturday. The other—the Johnny Cakes with Rhubarb and Sour Cherries I am making today at @lecreuset outlet in Rosemont, Chicago @fashionchicago (come say hi!!). ✨
I believe a pancake can and should be easy, gorgeous and totally delicious—and as importantly—not give you pancake belly. It’s why I think and test and eat and think some more before I decide what two or three pancakes or waffles will make it into each book.
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This one is my kids’ absolute favorite—and requires no egg—a smart thing to make when you’re low on ingredients. It’s packed with bananas and chocolate and tastes like a big treat, but thanks to the buckwheat, makes me feel like super mama as my kids gobble them down. These sweet little hands belong to our friend June, who waited so patiently while @gentlandhyers got this shot, before she could dive in. Her mama, the most joyful @fridakristins spent dozens of beautiful days with me testing and shooting my book and her papa @tsimages (half of @kingstonstandard) baked all the gorgeous handmade sourdough breads you see in the book’s toast chapter. They came into our lives right as we moved upstate and they are total GEMS. ✨
Happy Birthday, Tait and happy pancake eating to all your great loves! 🥞
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#everydayissaturdaycookbook #chocolatechippancakes

Yesterday I had the pleasure of feeding a fabulous groups of Chicago ladies full of soul and generosity. Everyone keeps asking if book tour is exhausting, but in each new city there’s are old friends and new smiling faces and warm welcomes that are so heartfelt and uplifting that I feel the excitement of sharing my book totally new and alive again! ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Today I will be at @readitandeatstore Chicago signing copies of Every Day is Saturday at 2 PM, and tomorrow at the @lecreuset store in Rosemont (@fashionchicago). Please come say hi!!
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In the meantime, I give you this Greek Salad (sort of) that I made yesterday and everyone is latching into with gusto—this time I made it with tomatillos (raw) and peppers and cucumbers and creamy Bulgarian Feta, wild sorrel and arugula flowers (but any flowering herb makes it special!). Finish with lemon juice and a lavish drizzle of your very best oil. It’s the weekend, make it count. 🎉

#everydayissaturdaycookbook #booktour #weekendvibes

home with my favorites in the garden of delights ✨ I leave again in the morning, but we had three magical days. Not rainbows and unicorns magic. There were dishes in the sink and many hours at my desk. My kids spilled and whined, as kids do. I still felt the pressure of never done, never quite finished. But somewhere between the groggy red-rye that brought me home and this quiet moment, as I pack again, was everything I’ve ever wanted this life to be. 💛
To be honest, I was worried I’d lost them—to iPads and babysitters and the things you do to get by when your world is moving so fast; I thought the magic might be slipping through my fingers, that perhaps I was even letting it. So for these three days I did what I know—I softened butter and laid out slabs of chocolate for baking chocolate loaves. I packed extra kids in my car and headed to the strawberry fields to glean the last little jewels. I packed pool snacks and handed out popsicles. And today, during the last half-day of school, I lined up rows of lemons and berries, waiting for them, willing my fingers to move faster on my keyboard to finish one last deadline on time. After the bell rang and after all the goodbyes for the summer, we stood at the counter—Màtyàs, Greta and I, smashing berries and lemons into homemade lemonade. I boiled hot dogs and cut cucumbers, and the kids spread out blankets under the tree. We laughed and ate, dipping bunless hot dogs into the mustard jar. After, I was still for the first time in weeks, legs stretched long on the blanket. Both kids curled into the soft edges of me, packing their bodies so close as if willing the moment to never end. ✨
Traveling solo right now is a little dream for me, one I am really enjoying, but in these moments, between roast chicken and warm chocolate snacking loaves, between whipped cream-covered kisses and humid, summer-day pile-ups on a picnic blanket, I am whole.

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