spicy peanut noodles with smashed cucumbers + sticky garlic chicken 🥜

Hello from my crazy chaotic but absolutely fabulous cookbook photoshoot week!!! ICYMI, I am writing my first cookbook (a lifelong dream), and after two full years of working on the proposal and developing all 100 recipes for the book, we are finally at the photoshoot stage.

This means we’re prepping, making, styling + photographing all 100 recipes in a two week period….lol. It’s been the most wild and all-consuming professional/creative project I’ve ever worked on, but I’m truly having the time of my life. My house looks like a tornado went through it and I sink onto the couch with pure exhaustion at the end of each day, but I already know I’m going to miss this when it’s over. I feel so lucky that I get to do what I love and work with the most incredible team of women to bring this book to life.

I am going to have SO much more to say once this process is over but for now, I will stop rambling because I owe you all a new recipe! We’re making one of my all-time favourite easy weeknight meals but amping it up a little (my specialty): spicy peanut noodles with smashed cucumbers + sticky garlic chicken. It’s a hearty, comforting meal that packs in veggies and protein and is basically the exact meal I want to plop onto the couch with after a long day. Noodles are always my go-to comfort meal and this one really delivers. Enjoy!