Comfort Food Recipe Swap + Are Sleepovers Safe?

Hi, everyone. What a week it’s been. I hope you all are hanging in there.

I thought it would be a good time to do another recipe swap focused on comfort food. Which, to me, can mean anything — snacks, stews, meals, dessert. Whatever you crave when you’re feeling upset or out of sorts. I often find the cooking itself comforting when I am making something I really enjoy. I love the satisfaction of chopping things up and mixing them together. I love the smells and how they evolve. I love watching the individual ingredients combine into something new and better than the sum of its parts.

I do not love the clean-up, though, omg.

I have a lot of comfort food recipes that I love. Today I’m going to share a winter soup recipe that I’ve been craving lately — with the caveat that it is not going to be for everyone. It’s spicy and sour and kind of weird, but I’m obsessed with it. It’s Samin Nosrat’s Butternut Squash and Green Curry Soup. I always make it with Mae Ploy green curry paste (it’s the best store-bought green curry paste I’ve found) and I only add about half as much paste as the recipe calls for and it’s still extremely flavorful (and spicy).

What are your favorite comfort food recipes? Please share in the comments!

Should You Ban Sleepovers?

And now for this week’s

Today I’m commenting on this Instagram reel from @heidistjohn about sleepovers, which has more than 180,000 (!) likes:

Here are my thoughts.

If you couldn’t already tell from this reel’s 180,000 likes, many parents today are staunchly against letting their kids sleep away from home. And look, I get it. It’s terrifying to think about the possibility that our kids could be sexually assaulted.

Yet banning sleepovers isn’t the best way to protect kids from sex abuse, and it can pose its own risks.