After a year of dicing and slicing, roasting and toasting, I’m recapping my favourite meals and memories, and sharing the recipes YOU made most popular in 2024. Did your favourites make the list? Keep reading to find the flavours you might have missed, that everyone’s been gobbling up this year.

No surprise here! Who could resist the sweet and salty flavours of my famous Pretzel Toffee Crunch. I whip it up during the holidays to give as gifts, but TBH you’re bound to find a jar in my kitchen anytime of year.

The recipe that had everyone asking for seconds and thirds was my Chicken Harvest Bowl. This hearty salad has a delicious tangy dressing, poured over sweet apple slices and butternut squash.

Soups and salads have always been popular on S.V. Living, but this Hearty Minestrone Soup was by far the most searched for. Filled with tasty veggies, protein-packed beans, and macaroni noodles, it’s the sort of soup that cues all the cozy feels.

There are a few kitchen essentials I always recommend investing in, and good knives, like this one from a Henckels Knife Block Set, is one of them (cookware too!). Professional blades will give you greater control in the kitchen, and stand up to the test of time!

Getting a solid seven to eight hours every night is crucial for reducing stress, having energy to exercise, making healthy choices…the list goes on. Investing in a smart alarm clock, like the Hatch Restore, gives you features to help fall asleep, stay asleep, and track sleep health. (So you can obsess over your sleep stats like everyone else these days!)

If you’re in my house, you’ll hear me cooking before you see me cooking. I love being in my zone, preparing a meal for my family, while singing along to music. Here’s a Spotify playlist of my 2024 favourites.

When you’re creating and testing recipes, you’re bound to have a few mishaps, but this Pinecone Brownie fail really took the cake! (Sometimes your biggest fail turns out to be your biggest win—so just go with it and have fun!)

When I’m not writing books, I’m reading them. Here are four books I read this year and loved! 

 

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, by Lisa See

Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt

The Women, by Kristin Hannah

All the Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker

Nothing compares to the feeling of spending months testing recipes, poring over the details, photographing food like beautiful works of art, and then seeing it all come together in my very first cookbook! It’s a dream come true, and I can’t wait to share it with you in 2025. Click the link below to be first in line to preorder my cookbook.

Next week I’ll be discussing New Year's resolutions, and how to create realistic goals for 2025 that fill you with motivation.