Around Town
Barbecue Side — Esquites Salad
Looking for the perfect barbecue side for outdoor entertaining in the beautiful spring and summer weather? This Esquites Salad from Leigh and Alston, the talented recipe creators behind Habitual Hostess, is perfect for any barbecue. Be sure to follow these moms on Instagram for more seasonal entertaining tips and tasty recipes.
Hey, It’s Stop Food Waste Day!
On national STOP FOOD WASTE DAY, I’m taking a closer look at food scraps and everyday leftovers. How can we be better stewards of the planet by the way we discard our peels, skins, and rinds?
Earth Day Plantains
Pretty prophetic that as Earth Day approached our very own plantain tree let us know it was ready to be harvested with some over-ripe brown fruits among the yellow gems in the bunch. Plucked, prepped, and eaten on the same day, we find them a versatile complement to any menu. It’s a mini-food chain example in the plant-to-human world on this glorious Earth Day.
Meal Prep Turkey Meatballs with Broccoli
Thank you to our TLMN food contributor Kathleen Ashmore from Kat Can Cook for sharing her Meal Prep Turkey Meatballs with Broccoli. Love these for a quick, healthy weeknight dinner. The best part? You probably have everything you need to make them in your pantry and freezer.
7 Easy Ways to Recycle Everything from Car seats to Legos
Looking for stress-free ways to recycle old, unused, and unwanted items? We’ve compiled a list of companies and organizations that offer rewards for donations and some that do good by helping those in need. And you can rest easy knowing you aren’t adding to the overwhelming landfills. Check it out!
Meet a Mom — Shazi Visram of HealthyBaby
Mom of two and entrepreneur Shazi Visram first turned the baby industry upside down with the Happy Baby food brand, and now, is doing the same with her HealthyBaby product line.
Day Trip Destination — The Grove: It’s a Swiftie Alert!
🕰️The Grove in LA is abuzz 🐝today with watches and clocks ticking and hourglasses ⏳flipping ⌛️with a countdown to tonight’s midnight 🕛 release of THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT by none other than Taylor Swift.
Meet a Mom — Country Music Singer Sarahbeth Taite
Our team at The Local Moms Network recently interviewed rising country star and former American Idol standout Sarahbeth Taite! With the support of her parents, Sarahbeth signed her first record deal at just 14, and drove herself to Nashville at age 17. But it wasn’t until five years later, in 2020, when she put an old single, Long Way, onto TikTok—and garnered 9 million streams of the video and a #1 spot on iTunes, that she started to receive national attention.
SoCal Peach Cobbler
In honor of National Peach Cobbler Day — and because today promises to be another cloudy, rainy SoCal Saturday [boo!] and a little peachy orange hue reminds me of our absent sunshine — I’m whipping up a cobbler version of our peach pie family fave!
Feeling Foggy? 6 Steps to Ease Symptoms of Brain Fog
There isn’t a mom who can’t relate to the idea of her brain as a computer with 50 tabs perpetually open, juggling a personal life, kids, activities, career, errands, housework, spouses…the list is endless. And brain fog is real.
