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Easy, Fresh and Colorful Meals

A friendly food journal by Jessica and Kathrin, gathering simple soups, bright vegetables, and quick weeknight fixes for cooks who want to put a good meal on the table without fuss.

by Jessica & Kathrin

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From the kitchen

A few of the meals we've been making lately.

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Watch & cook

Short clips from the kitchen.

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Surf and Turf in a Soup

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Clarifying Clarified Butter

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Blueberry Dumplings

Posts

Baked sweet potato fries with proper crunch

Sweet potato fries hit that sweet-salty-crispy note that turns an ordinary weeknight dinner into something a bit special. The orange-fleshed tubers roast up…

Five-Minute No-Cook Tomato Sauce for Pasta

A bowl of pasta can become dinner in the time it takes to boil the water. This fresh tomato sauce needs no saucepan, no simmering and very little chopping,…

Meet the cooks

Two friends, two kitchens, one shared notebook.

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Jessica

"I write down what worked, what flopped, and what to try next week."

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Kathrin

"Recipes should leave room for the fridge and the season."

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