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A Week for Picky Eaters...

A Week for Picky Eaters...

featuring Garlic-Glazed Crispy Chicken, Parmesan-Herb Angel Hair Pasta, & more

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Zoe Barrie Soderstrom
Jun 20, 2025
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We’re in the process of renovating our fixer-upper home (i.e., making it actually livable), and while our kitchen is a project for a later date (since we’re focusing on function rather than design at the moment), here’s what it currently looks like:

Each week, there has been (what feels like) a new problem we have to tackle: leaking gas lines, kitec piping, back-graded sewage lines, a faulty septic system, you name it.

Thankfully, my brother and sister-in-law recently moved to Sacramento and have been generous enough to let us stay with them while our house is in shambles. Ironically, my sister-in-law is an incredibly picky eater, which has been nothing but helpful in challenging me to create foods that are palatable to all.

When creating a menu for this week, she suggested I create an array of dishes that are palatable to the pickiest of eaters (i.e., her). So that’s exactly what I did.

Chicken Pomodoro, BBQ-Spiced Chicken Skewers, Crispy Garlic-Glazed Chicken

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