Welcome to Cooking & Calm

Hi there, I’m Susan and I share ideas & recipes that help busy home cooks find some calm in the kitchen, with help from my Instant Pot & gadget friends. I post here and on my YouTube channel and I hope I can help you find some simple ways to save time, eat well and find a little calm in this frantic world 🧑‍🍳+🤖=☺️

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Bullet Journal Garden Planning
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Bullet Journal Garden Planning

There’s just so much information getting stuffed into our little brains that it’s harder and harder to pull some things out of the archives. So we need to develop some good ‘remembering strategies’ to help us plan the best we can for everything - including our vegetable garden planning.

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Recipes Ideas for Chard: Saag Aloo
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Recipes Ideas for Chard: Saag Aloo

Now I always thought that Saag Aloo was made of spinach and potatoes, so when I came to create this new recipe, I had it in my mind that I'd need to rename it "Chard Aloo". But guess what? It turns out that Saag doesn't mean Spinach after all. Saag Aloo can be made with any seasonal leafy green and is often made with mustard leaves in parts of India. I had no idea! Am I alone?

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