It’s Memorial Day, which means that summer activities are officially launched! A favorite family summer activity for us is to go picnicking. Our local zoo has movie nights twice a month during the summer and we love to make quite the event of it; [...]
It may be the middle of winter (who can tell with temps having been in the 50s), but I’ve been eating salad like a rabbit for a month, now. Due in large part to going wheat free, the canvas of a salad allows me to be creative and eat [...]
Well, Fish Sticks! A Freezer Full of Fish
Apparently I’m preparing for Lent — except we’re not Catholic. Lately, every time I am at the grocery store I find a too-good-to-pass-up deal on seafood and into the cart it goes. After yesterday’s excursion to the grocery, I came home to realize that I was already well stocked [...]
A few days ago, I decided to make a favorite recipe from Joy of Cooking, Tuscan Beans, accompanied with rice and something, something. In poking around the interwebs, I found a Tuscan Bean and Rice soup that looked [...]
We’ve known for several years, now, about Kiddo’s nut allergy. And let me confirm that the discovery of that was a frightening process, beginning with an allergic reaction at home that scared the bejesus out of me. I am on year nine of being a vegetarian. We seem [...]
Homemade Fish Sticks & Southern Fare
Upon returning from the farmers’ market, I had a bunch of carrots, a bunch of turnips, and the need to add a little something to it all to make it a meal. In the freezer was a package of cod fillets, so into [...]
This week is no-grocery-shopping week.
When I menu plan for a week, I look at:
what I have in the frig that needs to be eaten before it goes bad, what is lurking in the freezer that can come out and play, what I already have in [...]
A week or so ago I wrote about my attempt to expedite my family’s meal planning to ensure a healthy meal would meet us at the table without spending oodles of time in the kitchen each and every night. The premise: following [...]
Kiddo goes to preschool from about 8 AM til 5 PM. By the time we get him picked up and home, he’s tired, we’re tired, and everyone is hungry. Plus, we’ve got to get him bathed, fed and in the bed by 8 PM. Oh, yes, and how about [...]
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