• About
    • Meet Kristin
  • The Book
  • Podcast
  • Blog
    • Turquoise Table Stories
    • Suppers for Sharing
    • Recipe Collection
    • Conversations
  • Speaking
  • Media
    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
  • About
    • Meet Kristin
    • Meet the Team
  • Start Here
  • Join the Community
  • Register Your Table
  • The Book
  • Podcast
  • Blog
    • Turquoise Table Stories
    • Suppers for Sharing
    • Recipes
    • Conversations
  • Media
  • Speaking
    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter

The Turquoise Table

Kristin Schell

  • Start Here
  • Register Your Table
  • The Community

in Suppers for Sharing & Conversation Starters

January Suppers for Sharing and Conversation Starters

Suppers for Sharing

Dear January,

You come in with such fanfare, but quite frankly you’re exhausting. Did you forget we cross your threshold already bleary-eyed and weary? To be sure, we welcome you on the First with eagerness and celebration. We’re full of resolution, declarations, fresh pens, and planners. This year will be the year! We’ll meal plan, lose weight, read more, worry less, and check every box on our mile long bucket list. We will be better friends, love our neighbors well, and we promise to never, ever take our family for granted. 

But our enthusiasm is no match for your cold and dark days. By the Fifteenth we stare at the crisp, blank pages of our planners with guilt. We trip over the remaining box of Christmas decorations, cursing to will it magically back into the attic. And, when the dryer performs its final tumble on the Twentieth, we wave a dirty, white tea towel in surrender.  

Are you sure you aren’t really 54 days long? 

Forgive me if that came across as rude. It’s the triple shot of espresso talking. 

Gratefully, since this isn’t our first lap around the sun with you, we’ve learned a few tricks to help us thrive. We know you January, and we’re ready. 

We come prepared with one-sheet dinners, slow cookers, and Instant Pots. We have soups to warm us down to our toes. Turmeric to ward off ailments and horseradish to clear our noses. We will share our suppers with those who might not have the strength to endure all 7.7 weeks of you.

We will take a pot of Beef Stew with Root Vegetables to neighbors who are weary. We’ll fortify teachers with mason jars of Nordstrom’s Tomato Basil Soup. We’ll make TWO sheet pans of Chicken, Sourdough Bread, and Bacon and invite friends to join us for a spontaneous supper. And because you are so darned long, there are five Thursdays. We officially rebranded Tuesdays to #TacoThursday which gives us FIVE opportunities to share our slow cooker favorite BBQ Beer Pulled Tacos.

Meals are everything. And, we’re sharing them big time. We are strong, January. We are strong.

Love, 

The Suppers for Sharing Community


For the Week of January 1

RECIPE: Sheet Pan Chicken, Sourdough & Bacon: Food & Wine

CONVERSATION STARTER: Which of your friends most inspires you to be a better person? How does he or she do this?


For the Week of January 5

RECIPE: BBQ Beer Pulled Chicken Tacos: Half Baked Harvest

CONVERSATION STARTER: What are two of your happiest childhood memories? What is one of your most embarrassing memories?


For the Week of January 12

RECIPE: Beef Stew with Root Vegetables & Horseradish: Fine Cooking

CONVERSATION STARTER: In what ways do you think the world is getting better? In what ways is it getting worse? If you could make any three changes in the world, what would they be?


For the Week of January 19

RECIPE: Nordstrom’s Tomato Basil Soup

CONVERSATION STARTER: What do you need?


For the Week of January 26

RECIPE: Turmeric Roasted Cauliflower Soup: Skinny Taste

CONVERSATION STARTER: If you weren’t doing what’s on your bio, what would fill your days?


  • Share
  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print

Filed Under: Suppers for Sharing & Conversation Starters

« S2E14: What Do You Need? A Conversation with Kim Muench
February Suppers for Sharing and Conversation Starters »

Comments

  1. AvatarLori H says

    at

    Thank you for this list!! February is finally here but I think we will still need these recipes for a while 🙂

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Meet Kristin

Welcome! I'm so glad you're here.

I'm on a mission to love my neighbors. I put an ordinary picnic table in my front yard, painted it turquoise and invited neighbors, friends, and even strangers to hang out and do life together at the Turquoise Table®.

I hope you'll join us!

About Kristin

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

The Book

Buy Now

The Podcast

The Turquoise Table Podcast with Kristin Schell

Listen Now

Subscribe for Updates

Thank you! You're all set.

There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again.

Join the Movement

  • Start Here
  • Join the Community
  • Register Your Table
  • Your Tables

Subscribe for Updates

Quick Links

  • Media
  • Speaking
  • Contact
Quick trip to our happy place. #estespark #rockymo Quick trip to our happy place. #estespark #rockymountains
Happy Easter! 🐣🐇 ✝️ Happy Easter! 🐣🐇 ✝️
My little Valentine turns 18!! 🥰💕❄️ Happ My little Valentine turns 18!! 🥰💕❄️ Happy birthday @ellieeschell We love you so much!
Looks like we’ll be snowed in this Valentine’s Looks like we’ll be snowed in this Valentine’s Day! Between quarantine and ice our 💕 plans will feel a bit different this year! 

That won’t keep us from celebrating our #1 Valentine who turns 18 on Sunday! And since I’m feeling nostalgic I’ve rounded up some of our recipes from celebrations past! I bet you find something to make your Valentine’s Day sweet. (Link to recipes in profile)

If you’re in the mood for some serious 💗 inspiration I’d like to introduce you to some extra special and super creative friends! 

@teresa.swanstrom.anderson 
@orangegrovecorner 
@eryn_whalen_online 
@linenandcake 

I’ll be sharing their valentine inspiration in stories through the day! 

In the meantime, I’m grateful for:

grocery store tulips 🌷 
take out 🍱 
upside down pineapple 🍍 birthday cake
homemade valentines 💌
neighbors who bring sweet treats 🍰 

What does your Valentine weekend look like?

#celebratehome #valentinesday #birthday #valentines #chocolatecake #milkshake #celebrate
Have you ever had pashka? A sweet friend from chur Have you ever had pashka? A sweet friend from church — who I haven’t seen in person in ONE solid year— just delivered this traditional Russian dessert. She said she hasn’t hosted a gathering in so long she decided to pull out all her heart molds and make a favorite dessert to surprise her friends.

💕🍰

What a special way to offer hospitality during Covid. I feel sooooo loved and my family will go nuts! 

Now I’m thinking of what I miss making for guests that I can whip up and deliver this weekend. 🚐💌 

What do you miss making? What if we all dropped off some sweet love to someone we miss this Valentine’s Day?!? 💗🥰
💕 Sunday funday making Valentine cards for heal 💕 Sunday funday making Valentine cards for healthcare workers in our community. Our church is collecting Love Letters to send to one of our local hospitals. Such a great idea, right? 

🥰 💌

There’s plenty of time to make some cards and let people in your neighborhood know they are loved! 

#valentines #frontlineworkers #healthcareworkers #love #neighbors #community
Follow on Instagram

Copyright ©2005-2019 Kristin Schell · Site by Design by Insight

Get Your Free Download

This site uses cookies: Find out more.