1.  Let’s talk kitchen stuff today.

2.  I love my MealBoard app.

3.  I use it as a recipe book and meal planner. It can also create shopping lists, I just haven’t used that function.

4.  Anyway, big fan, 10/10, highly recommend.

5.  So here are some of my recipes stored under “favorites.”

6.  For my air fryer folks I love Monique’s Air Fryer Southern Fried Chicken.

7.  If you can’t tolerate grease from frying I promise you this is a fantastic solution. It’s not a quick cook but it sure is delicious.

8.  I don’t eat much red meat but these Slow Cooker Beef Tips with Gravy served over mashed potatoes or rice are a hit in our house.

9.  I’d add a salad if I was firing on all cylinders but mostly we just pop open a can of peas and call it a day.

10.  In honor of May let’s roll on to some options I tagged with “hot weather.”

11.  This Chili Lime Shrimp Sheet Pan from Clean Food Crush is delicious. Light, flavorful, and incredibly quick.

12.  I pair it with a Cilantro-Lime rice (pulled from the Chipotle Burrito Bowl recipe) for an easy meal. I bet this Coconut Rice with Cilantro and Lime would also be good.

13.  Taco Salad + Homemade Lime-Cilantro Dressing shows up every summer.

14.  Truth be told I’ve made the dressing a couple of times but it’s just as good with a simple oil and seasoned rice vinegar dressing.

15.  Another salad entry is Chicken Chopped Salad with Jalapeno Dressing.

16.  My notes in the app say, “Delicious but this is HOT. Maybe remove some seeds before adding jalapeño slices to salad. Kept dressing on side so people could use their own if they preferred.”

17.  But y’know, you do you.

18.  How about baking? We’ve got baking.

19.  Diva’s Moist Banana Bread wins all the awards in my book.

20.  Baking this fills our house with the most heavenly smell, which is frankly pretty sad for BrightSide since he hates bananas.

21.  Sad for him but so much yum for the rest of us.

22.  In strawberry season I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Monique’s Fresh Strawberry Cobbler.

23.  Mmmmmm…cobbler.

24.  Are you looking for a show stopper? An eat real slow, drool a little, eyes roll back in your head extravaganza?

25.  You might want to give the Pioneer Woman’s Tres Leches Cake a go.

26.  Full disclosure: I haven’t made this myself but my brother-in-law made it for us and OH MY GOD. There aren’t enough words for this cake.

27.  He often makes it the night before and after my day two slice I can see why. It was just…[sigh of utter contentment].

28.  That’s enough recipes for today. Are all my non-foodies still with me?

29.  I love good food but trust when I say this is the no-frills version of food blogging.

30.  Click any of those links and it’ll take you to a real food blogger’s site and that’s a whole different thing.

31.  Back stories about childhood days, anecdotes about grocery store mishaps, occasionally waxing poetic about the family cow named Bessie who gave the most amazingggg milk ever…

32.  Listen, I can ramble with the best of them but there’s a reason every one of those blogs now has a link right at the top labeled “Jump to recipe.”

33.  Feel like reading a full scale backstory on the history of salsa in this blogger’s family life?

34.  Cool beans! Dive in! It’s funny and educational, whoop whoop!

35.  Not so much? Click here and we’ll give you the recipe now.

36.  Best shortcut ever.

37.  I’m curious what sort of rioting had to happen before bloggers figured out we needed that button.

38.  I’d imagine it involved a fair amount of feedback sounding something like this:

Holy sh*t, Gwen, nobody cares about that time your heirloom tomatoes won a ribbon at the county fair even though Jeff’s truck stalled out on a bridge while a tornado bore down on the town. How much butter do I need for this freaking recipe? THAT’S ALL I NEED TO KNOW.

39.  Ahem.

40.  Happy Friday, everybody. Keep speaking truth and remember that rest is resistance.