Welcome to Simple Bites
Welcome!
Here at Simple Bites we want to come alongside you in your kitchen and demonstrate that great food doesn’t have to be complicated or fussy, and it can be so much more than macaroni and cheese.
Our desire is to inspire you in your day-to-day efforts to put wholesome, delicious food on the table for your family. We will provide you with an encouraging perspective as well as practical application on how to manage your kitchen and provide the best for your family—and yourself!
Along the way we’ll bring you tutorials, tips and tricks on every subject from preserving food to menu planning, and provide inspiration for both daily meals and holiday menus.
Me? Simple?
I discovered simple in a most unusual place. I had just walked away from a high-stress job in a renowned fine-dining establishment and was looking for something more. Relaxing on my first vacation in years, I found myself at a roadside café just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and experienced one of the best meals of my life—not to mention the biggest surprise. The dishes weren’t composed of delicate foams, trails of powder as well as six or seven other elements; rather they combined three or four bold and utterly fresh Latin flavors to create simple, yet unforgettably great food.
That was the start of my journey toward simplicity. Over the years, through motherhood, home management, four years of food blogging, and *gulp* turning thirty, I’ve learned that simple living is vital to my happiness—and to those around me.
Introductions
Sometimes the best way to start something new is to jump in with both feet, and this is what we are doing here at Simple Bites. We’ve got an exciting month planned and are eagerly looking forward to the year ahead. I hope you’ll be joining us!
I’m Aimée, editor around here, although I’m still not used to the title. I’ll be bringing you the very best of all the knowledge I have gleaned from years of both professional and home-style cooking. I don’t claim to know it all; on the contrary, I learn something new about food every day.
My children don’t care that I have a background in professional cooking; they’ve made that clear since the first time they tossed food under the high chair. They like to keep me humble – and grounded, which is a good thing.
Welcome!
Pour yourself a cup of coffee and consider subscribing to our RSS feed. I feel like this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Thank you for tuning in to our launch!
Ready to dive in? What are you looking to gain from this site? Please share!
Have you been peeking in my kitchen? How did you know that my kitchen needs some simplicity?
My husband does the lion’s share of the cooking at our house, but as my 8 yr old gets more and more interested in cooking herself I feel like we should turn it into a family affair. I’m looking forward to reading your tips and tricks and to trying your recipes!
Welcome Simple Bites – the tastiest new bookmark in my favorites toolbar!
How exciting to find you! Every day it seems like we find out about how some food or some ingredient his completely toxic to us and especially so to our children. So… my little family is trying to work on a plan to eat more simply in order to find a safe path toward lasting good health. I grew up in a family where high fat highly processed foods were on the table once a day and the other two meals either came in a cereal box or from a donut shop. When you hear that an overweight child most likely will be an overweight adult,trust me believe it to be true. Well unless that is… there’s a shift toward health. So having a 3 3/4 year old daughter whom I most definitely do NOT want to follow in my waddling syrupy footprints, I’ve decided to move toward simple healthy home cooked meals. Being an older mom I need to take the very best care of myself so that I’m around to enjoy as much of not only my own life but especially my sweet gift of a daughter. So I hope you will focus on easy, healthy, simple foods & recipes with the nutritional info. Can’t wait to read what you come up with!
Ohh, I love your suggestion of nutrition information; that would be so wonderful! I second!
It’s just great to read all the info on this site! Being able to turn my house into a home and simplify our lives with all the tips and advice has been wonderful for my family. Look forward to reading and learning too!
Cool! I’m subscribing to your feed. Looking forward to reading and eating! 😀
I am so excited about Simple Bites! I love discovering surprisingly simple (and frugal and healthy) ways to manage our family food, and I wish I were able to carve out more time to blog about my favorite ideas. This is a treat! I hope the adventure goes well, Aimee!
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Congrats, congrats Aimee! As you know, I am utterly thrilled for today’s launch. Officially subscribing now!
Already subscribed a few days ago in anticipation! Happy that today is here, and can’t wait to see all that SB has to offer readers!
Jamie
Can’t wait to follow!
Whoo hoo, Aimee! Can’t wait to read here regularly – I know I will glean so much! And congratulations on launch today!
Can’t wait to maek some great meals with you!
I’m so excited to be a part of this wonderful team!
I am so glad that this day is finally here! 🙂 I can’t wait to learn from what everyone has to offer. My kitchen is waiting in anticipation.
Well if I don’t stop looking at your new site I’m not going to get anything done today!
Although I believe it’s been said – I’m going to say it again – CONGRATULATIONS!! WOOT! SO EXCITING!! (& all in caps!!) You are anything but “simple” in my books dear friend – but I look forward to reading and being inspired by simple bites!! I’m officially SUBSCRIBED! A.xx
Looking forward to this blog! I’ve got a very picky eater of a husband and lots of ADD in the family that I’d like to minimize in the kids by removing preservatives and other nasty things….but I’m not very creative when it comes to cooking, so thanks in advance for the help!
Also, fyi, on your front page, the links below “Kids,” “Mom,” and “Organic” at the bottom are all the same (I think they’re the Simple Kids links).
Hmm, all the links look good from where I am. Thanks for the head’s up, though.
I am so excited for this launch — a topic very close to my heart. Can’t wait to see what you’ll be cooking up here (sorry, I couldn’t resist!). 🙂
I can’t wait for all the good tips and advice you have to offer. I have no food experience, but I do tend to make food more complicated than it needs to be and then I get overwhelmed and then we end up eating fast food or something bad for us and then I even feel more guilty! Ah, the guilt cycle! I am ready to jump off the guilt cycle!
Congratulations on the new site!
Wow! Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone.
It’s exciting to have you all on board!
Congratulations on your big launch! So exciting! Now I have a new destination to peruse with my coffee…
I am so thrilled to see the launch of Simple Bites! It’s made my day. I feel tickled pink and I’m giggling, like I’m having a birthday party today. Congratulations, Aimee, we’re all proud of you, and this WILL be great!
Aimee, it’s a wonderful start! I look forward to following along and trying out new idea’s and recipes! Congrats! xo
Nice ‘meeting’ you Aimee!
I love the simple cooking concept! I think it first really dawned on me that very basic, quality food can be as good as any complicated, gourmet meal while I was reading Under the Tuscan Sun. I would get ravenous when the author described biting into a sun-warmed tomato slathered in olive oil. Does it get much better than that??
I am really looking forward to following this blog!
Well said, Jenni, and I completely get where the author is coming from.
Home-grown tomatoes are priceless.
Welcome!
I am really looking forward to all of the new blogs being launched! Eating simply is something that I want to try with my family… let’s hope that I can incorporate some things!
Woot woot! Congrats on such a prestigious title and new found authority Aimée! I have said it before and I will continue to say it, I am so excited to be a part of this team. Congrats to all involved on today’s launch!
Man oh Man – where to begin? I love food, especially the eating it part and eating simple is just what the chef ordered!
Best of luck and continued success Aimee, and let me know if you want to discover any simple northern indian recipes!
This looks like a lot of fun! Simple is good and so very much needed right now. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Excited to read along. Congrats Aimee and your kick ass team of contributors!
This is really exciting. I look forward to visiting and learning lots! Congratulations…
This is going to a fantastic adventure fo so many of us! We’ve been eating simply the past few weeks with Hubby cooking, even more than usual! And no has died yet.
I’m so glad that this day is finally here! I can’t wait to see the ideas and tips everyone comes up with. My kitchen awaits with baited breath.
Just stopping by on a break at school to say CONGRATS! on the launch 🙂 Im so proud of you!
congrats! what an exciting day for you. i’ve been counting down the days almost as much as you have. well for me i’m back at work full-time after a year off with my little boys – and looking for advice on getting a good dinner on the table when I get home after 5 p.m. with two hungry dudes and one on his way home from work. i am so looking forward to reading for any tips, tricks and mostly inspriration. YAY!
Brandy, thank you for such an enthusiastic response. I’m happy you will be joining our community and look forward to your input!
very excited about this new site! i was an extraordinarily picky eater as a child but am a foodie now. great example…always thought i disliked tomatoes but was shocked to discover i love them when i had my first insalata caprese in italy. the difference…they were fresh as was the mozzarella, basil, and oil!
can’t wait to read more…
Ah, Italy, the backdrop for so many culinary eye openings. Great story!
Thanks for joining us, Aimee.
Looking forward to reading your blog – I’m very excited about making some great meals for our family!!
Can’t wait! I love all of your web sites thus far and am really excited to see what this one will inspire me to do and to let go of!!! can’t wait to read more…have fun!
Hey sister – you’ve always thrived on challenges, and I know you’re going to make this a success. Your contributers look great! Diversity of backgrounds and origin always makes things more interesting. I just want to say – I am so proud of you, and congratulations! I know all the late nights that went into this one.
What I am looking for – a reminder that flavor does not have to be sacrificed for healthy eating – if fact, that truly healthy eating can in fact, taste so much better!
Yeah!
Thank you for your new site! I am looking forward to simple cooking since this momma does not like to cook! 😉
I would love to see articles on providing healthy, tasty meals on a frugal budget (I know, I want it ALL!). I would also love some healthy recipes that would inspire my “budding 12 year-old chef” who loves to peruse the internet for recipes – many of which I have to turn down due to ingredients that cause problems for me – I would love to show him that cooking “healthy” is fun too! (In reality, we do fix a lot of healthy meals together – I would just love a place where he can go to find new recipes that will be inspiring and healthy).
Congrats again Aimee, can’t wait to follow along and glean more recipes and inspiration from you!
xo
I’m excited to be a part of this great team! With such an amazing editor, how can it be anything other than great?
aWeSoMe!
and… i’m a dude! but one of those “foodie guys”…
… and just as ‘under the hight chair’ is a well put together, effective, inspirational blog . . . i know that this will continue being an awesome avenue for you to get yer enlightening, tasty stuff out there! kudos!
This is one of the things I’ve been trying to be better about this year – eating healthy, at home, and simply. I can’t wait to see what you have to share with us!
Best wishes on the latest endeavor!! I know it will be great and I look forward to many more hours of enjoyable reading and cooking!!
Woohoo! High-five! Happy Dance! This is going to be amazing – don’t forget that!
I’ve subscribed to simplemom for a while and looking forward to watching the concept grow with simplemedia. I hope to see lots of ideas on nutritious yet kid-friendly food. Menu planning would be appreciated too! Glad to see a fellow Canadian online and living simply!
I LOVE to cook for my family. My three boys and husband really appreciate it when I cook yummy food, but usually this seems to be complicated! Involving several ingredients and a lot of time. I want to learn to make some wholesome meals that are simple and yummy. (Does such a meal exist? I hope so!) And creative ways to vegetables tasty.
Congratulations! What a great site. I’m very much looking forward to some Simple Bites inspired meals appearing on my table soon.
Congrats on the brilliant launch! I will definately be following your blogs and trying the simple recipes – just what I need when feeding Shaun! Can’t wait to see how the young Canadian mothers do things 🙂
Best Wishes!
I just found you and as the mother to four children one of whom is a vegetarian, one who is a self proclaimed “meat monster” , one who would eat cereal and waffles at every day, and the last will eat anything especially if it has chocolate in it s list of possible ingredients, I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!.
As I am trying to simplify our lives so we can spend more time together, did I mention that my youngest are triplets who will be 6years next month, one of my biggest quandaries is whats for dinner/dinners tonight, try not to make too much of any one type of food as I hate to waste it and making at least two different meals an evening is a challenge unto itself…… I am also in search of ways for all of us to get better more simple nutritious foods as often as possible. We buy most of our food at the farmers market getting nice fresh vegetables and meats. I buy our eggs from a local egg farmer and the rest I fill in at our local co-op. We live on one salary, and I have to stretch it as far as I can…..Alas i feel I am babbling New Ideas always welcome!!!!….So welcome to my list of favorites and congratulations on your launch
peace Barbara
I am definately looking forward to this blog. Thanks for sharing!
This is terrific…I can’t wait to read more…and more!