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Monday Menus: A Perfect Picnic or Potluck Dish

Every once in a while, you run across a dish that’s so easy and versatile that it seems perfect for just about every occasion.  There are lots of foods like this in the world, and I’m sure like me, you … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: May 2013, Week One

I’m dashing this off tonight, so forgive me; there’s not much to say, other than “Here’s the Lunch Logic!” Essentially, the only thing I want to point out to you about this particular edition is that it shows you exactly … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week Two

This week’s menu is a menu absolutely rife with lunch-packing possibilities.  Some weeks are like that; you practically don’t have to think at all to make home-run lunches that the kids will Hoover down happily.  With a Sunday meal of … Continue reading

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Monday Menus: Illegal Lamb

On Easter Sunday, I made a boneless leg of lamb for our family dinner.  I hadn’t planned on it; actually, I was going to do something nice with a pork loin, maybe, until two weeks prior to Easter when Whole … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week One

This week’s Lunch Logic is really all about planning ahead.  Oh, I know most of what I post here on RRG is focused on planning (that’s one of the side effects of sharing a monthly “meal plan,” ahem), but this … Continue reading

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Monday Menus: Great Grilled Chicken

It actually hit 60 degrees here in Rhode Island recently – today, in fact, and yesterday, and another day before that.  It won’t stay that way, because the Atlantic Ocean makes our weather entertainingly unstable (that’s my positive-spin outlook on … Continue reading

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Meal Plan for a Busy, Busy April

I’m quietly freaking out.   Except…now that I’m writing about it on a public blog, I guess it’s not so much “quiet” anymore, right?  So now I’m PUBLICLY and NOISILY freaking out. It’s all good stuff that’s making me this way.  … Continue reading

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Monday Menus: Slapdash Shepherd’s Pie

A few people have asked, relatively recently, whether or not I ever make Shepherd’s Pie.  The answer is, yes, I do sometimes make it; but it’s not often, and I have almost never made a “proper” shepherd’s pie.  That is … Continue reading

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March At Last! A Meal Plan

Oh, hooray, it’s March at last! I’ve spent much time bemoaning the winter weather, and while I know that March doesn’t exactly bring balmy temperatures to New England (and, in fact, we’ve still got a few weeks left where there’s … Continue reading

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Our Second Pantry Challenge: Update 1

It’s that time again – time to be accountable and show you all what things are like around here if I don’t meal plan or grocery shop for a week.  When I did this no-shopping challenge back in December, it … Continue reading

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