Let’s be honest: sometimes you want to look like you have your life together without actually doing too much to make that happen. Enter: this creamy cucumber salad. It’s fresh, it’s tangy, it’s crunchy — and best of all, it takes practically zero effort. This is the perfect side dish for when you forgot you said you’d “bring a little something” to the BBQ, or when you just need to feel like you made a vegetable today. Low stakes, high reward. My kind of cooking. Ingredients You Actually Have Time For: How to Throw It Together: Hot Mess Pro Tip: This salad is super forgiving. Ran out of dill? Skip…

Let’s be real: If you’ve ever searched “easy meal planning hacks” only to end up stress-scrolling Pinterest with a bag of tortilla chips for dinner, welcome home. You’re in good company. I hate meal planning. There, I said it. But you know what I hate more? That 5 PM moment where the fridge is aggressively empty except for half a cucumber, questionable lunch meat, and an existential crisis. So, for all my fellow hot messes out there, here’s my approach to meal planning — for the people who deeply despise meal planning — but still have to, because everyone keeps insisting on eating multiple times a day. Rude. Step 1:…

Let’s talk zucchini bread. You know… that sneaky way we justify cake for breakfast because technically there’s a vegetable in it? Well, I’ve taken it one step further and created a gluten-free version that doesn’t taste like sadness and cardboard. Spoiler Alert: This zucchini bread is moist, lightly sweet, packed with shredded zucchini (hello, summer garden overload), and secretly gluten-free — but no one would ever guess. My Celiac-Approved Kitchen As someone with Celiac disease, I have to be careful about gluten—not just in recipes, but sneaky cross-contamination too. So when I say this zucchini bread is 100% gluten-free and safe for my fellow gluten-sensitive or Celiac folks, I mean…