Taking dinner to a friend this week, so as I think about my menu plan, I will incorporate a dinner for her family as well. The Make-Ahead Cook from America’s Test Kitchen (click here for more details) is providing inspiration, as well as From Our House to Yours (click here for more details). Both have great
I thought the post title deserved an exclamation, the kids are back to school this week. Yeah! However, now we have to deal with cross country practice, after school conditioning, homework, Boy Scout meetings, and various other activities using our time. I look forward to at least one of the kids driving soon. Our CSA
Since it is now spring, the above photo should help with the identification of random alliums you might be seeing at the farmers market or in your weekly CSA box. Leeks tend to be round on the bottom near the stem, with flat, dark green outer leaves. Spring onions are bulbous and round at the
Back from our winter break in Switzerland (more on that soon) I find I am craving lots of vegetables. Seems like all we did last week was eat, specifically bread and cheese, potatoes and cheese, cheese, pork in all its tasty incarnations, and chocolate. The last one I am not too upset about, I will continue that
We have themes in our house – Taco Tuesday (or Thursday), Fajita Friday, Meatless Monday (although we have not done that in a while). The kids look forward to it and it makes it easy to plan at least one meal a week. Taco Tuesday can be almost anything. I have cooked ground beef or
Really, aren’t they all? Anywho, a couple evening meetings and training sessions means I need to have my ducks in a row for dinner this week (I have told you how important this plan is to my overall mental health, right?) Onto this week’s photo. Because we have been getting our vegetables (and some fruits)
Three Day Weekend. Feels like the last bit of respite before the downhill spiral into fall schedules and the holiday madness. These menu plans become so important, they help me sort my thoughts out of the week and center my thinking before I get caught up in the minutiae of day-to-day tasks and obligations. The
Fall begins, I guess. The air smells different, a little crisper. And the shadows seem a little longer, but as Andy, our Mariquita Farms farmer pointed out, the first official day of fall is not until Sunday, September 22. I think in reality it has started a little earlier! In our veggie box from Mariquita
Back to school this week, and yes, I am a little happy. I do love the structure the school year provides, but I am also happy to take several weeks off and unwind. In addition to going back to school this week, we also start soccer, after school music, etc. Its shaping up to be