So Into That

Thanks to everyone who joined for today’s Substack live cooking demo — if you couldn’t make it, find a full replay above! In the demo, I cooked smoky mole chicken enchiladas with lime crema , a recipe that turns a few humble pantry staples (peanut butter, chocolate chips, tortillas, tomato paste, spices, and chipotles en adobo!) into a delicious weeknight dinner. The only fresh ingredients you’ll...

Hi! Carmel Valley schools are operating on a half-day schedule all week, and we’re in the middle of an extreme heat wave, so it feels like a mini spring break before real spring break is upon us in April. I know a lot of your kids have spring break this month (my friend Mary Pell is visiting from North Carolina right now for her daughter’s spring break!), so today we’re sharing a few spring break-...

Hi! First of all, I recorded a voiceover of this So Into That! Click the play button above if you’d like to listen. I really, really tried not to cry, but it was just a crying kind of day apparently. I’ve had a wild few weeks of travel — both for pleasure to Mexico with the kids, and then, eight hours after landing from Mexico, I left for a 10-day work trip that included announcing my new book on...

I had so much fun cooking the Christmas Strata live with so many of you this morning! I love that we’ve all knocked out Christmas breakfast and now have it ready in the fridge — phew! One thing off the list. If you missed it, you can still cook along with us with following along with this recording. The live crew also asked for a kitchen tour so I do that at the end! Thank you Sarah Conner , Charl...

Thanks to all who tuned into our turkey day chat earlier this week! Here’s the recording in case you missed it. Have any questions we didn’t cover? Ask them here! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit whattocook.substack.com/subscribe

ONE OF YOU IS WINNING A TRIP TO CARMEL!!!! I promise I’ll stop yapping about pre-orders soon, because the book will BE IN YOUR HANDS IN LESS THAN A MONTH! But until pub day on August 13th, it’s pre-order city, baby. And to show you just how SERIOUSLY, UNENDINGLY GRATEFUL I am to all of you for pre-ordering, I’ve been working really hard on a truly massive giveaway… CARO’S PERFECT WEEKEND IN CARMEL...

Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/author-annabel-monaghan-on-getting It’s summertime, and that means it’s Annabel Monaghan time! Annabel’s one of my favorite authors, and lucky for us she cranks out a delightful new book seemingly every June. This year is no different, so today we talk about Summer Romance and a whole lot more: from kids and smart...

Get this week's full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/the-idea-of-you-author-robinne-lee The Idea of You was a book that changed the way I read.  I absolutely loved it. I recommend it all the time. And it was my gateway drug into the romance genre… although, as its author Robinne Lee shares in this episode, she never intended to write a romance novel (nor does she co...

Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rich-af-with-vivian-tu Vivian Tu ( Your Rich BFF ) is here, and she’s here to make us smarter about personal finance like we’re out for margaritas. No condescension. No jargon. Just tons of actionable tips, no matter your income or family situation. You might know Vivian from Instagram , where her perso...

Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/so-into-that-ask-me-anything If you follow me on Instagram, you know I do the occasional “question box” style Ask Me Anything there. Well, today I’m bringing that format to the pod – and you sent in some juicy ones. This Q&A gets into: • Workout motivation with young kids • How do I deal with “mom guilt” as a work...

Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/angela-santomero-the-creator-of-blues As the creator of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood on PBS, Angela Santomero may be the person most responsible for getting my family through the pandemic with our sanity intact. The show was (and still is) a lifesaver in moments when George or I needed a break from hands-on parenti...

Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/carly-duguid-on-building-the-brand Carly Phillips Duguid is my former college classmate, a What to Cook subscriber, and… oh yeah, the co-founder of the sports agency Evolve, along with her husband and 4-time grand slam winner Naomi Osaka. Today, Carly shares how she’s “embracing the pure chaos” of parenting a 4-ye...

Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/i-found-the-perfect-reading-for-a Today I share what I’ve been so into lately: entertaining versus having people over, a great new lipstick, etc. Plus, the insane story of how I heard a beautiful poem read at a wedding and immediately knew who the author was (it's not someone famous, and I'd never heard the poem b...

Dinner party tips. Healthy meals with Trader Joe’s ingredients. Stories involving Martha Stewart, Sufjan Stevens, and Sia? This conversation with Jess Damuck has all of the above and more, and I’m bringing it to you a day after the launch of her gorgeous new book, Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook . If you’ve seen Salad Freak , you know how beautiful Jess’ work is. Which makes sense considering she...

I love each and every guest we’ve had on this show, but I’m just gonna say it: for me at least, this episode is probably the most important and relevant one we’ve done yet.  Today we have Eve Rodsky , the Harvard-trained author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) . I personally credit Eve’s ideas – and the playing cards that help you impl...

I am a longtime Gaby Dalkin lover, and you will soon be, too! She is charming, hard-working, smart, and just a good, kind human. Trigger warning: like the title says, Gaby has experienced 9 miscarriages. She copes with this with humor and levity, so if that's not something you wish to hear right now, skip this one. We also get into: * How Gaby structures her typical day * Dividing responsibilities...

OMFG — Jessa freaking Hastings is on So Into That this week!!!!! Jessa is the brilliant author of the Magnolia Parks book series , and whether or not you’ve read them, I know you’ll love getting to know her and hearing about her path to mega-book-fame. I can’t stop thinking about the unwavering faith that Jessa had in herself that these books would someday be a success, despite so many people tell...

Today’s show kicks off with a BIG announcement… something that’s been in the works for years. I know you’re going to love it! I’ll fill you in on all the details, plus – why I'm relating so hardcore to the show One Day (spoiler: you get to hear all about me and George's FINAL breakup before we got engaged). And an update on what I’m calling “The Year of Me”. Why I’m taking time to reignite old pas...

My husband and I have been following the amazing Dr. Aditi Nerurkar for months now, and putting her tips to work in our sometimes-stressful lives. Now that she’s put all her wisdom together in a book and started her own Substack , it seemed like the time to ask her to share science-backed strategies for managing and mastering stress – beyond unhelpful and annoying clichés (“just relax?!”). So in t...

Every time I mention I went to boarding school, people are like "WOAH WOAH WOAH, please explain!"  So here's a primer on boarding school, why we loved it, what was hard, and why we think our friendship is still so strong despite not having lived in the same place for more than 15 years.    We also get into: * A basic, 101-level intro to boarding school  * Different “houses” on campus and their rep...

Cameron Rogers is a longtime friend and OG food/mom content creator who played a crucial role in helping me open up about my life online. True to her Freckled Foodie roots, she still develops recipes but these days you’re more likely to find her talking about motherhood, overall physical and mental health, and how they’re intertwined. So in this episode, we catch up about how to divide the labor o...

The response to Sohla’s episode , where we both shared a few things that our husbands have done to make us feel supported postpartum, and shared several elements of postpartum recovery that we wish we’d had a heads up on, was insane . Countless older moms, brand new moms, soon-to-be-moms, all the moms, wrote me to thank me for sharing the real deal about postpartum. But the #1 thing I heard was “I...

If you’re on Instagram, I can almost guarantee you’ve seen Caitlin Murray . She has a way of expressing exactly how many moms feel in the day-to-day grind while making you laugh out loud in the process. After I barely get through today’s intro (happy birthday, Mattis!), Caitlin and I talk about why we’re both out on extreme diets and restrictions and prefer a “damp” approach to alcohol these days…...

I first discovered Sohla El-Waylly in the early days of the pandemic, when Bon Appétit Test Kitchen videos were all the rage. She was by far my favorite contributor to that series, and now that she’s promoting her own cookbook and recently became a mom, this was the perfect time to catch up with her. So today, we talk a bit about “ Start Here ,” the A to Z guide that took Sohla 3 years to write. S...

I recently asked you for your questions, feedback, and topics you want to hear more about and you gave me a ton of great ideas. One of the most common questions was a version of, “So what’s your deal? What’s your background, and what exactly do you do now?” Good question. How did I wind up as a recipe developer/cookbook author/whatever-I-decide-to-call-myself-that-day? You’re about to find out. In...