I’m just LONGING for summer produce. Aren’t you? Maybe I’ve spent more time and energy this year paying attention to the seasons and making sure that we don’t eat too many way out of whack fruits and vegetables — in
Tag: cooking
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
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
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
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.
Of course they’re not really magic. Don’t be silly. How could a meatball be magic? Unless you mean “magic” in the sense that every time they show up on the dinner table, or in a lunchbox, or wherever, there is
Tonight’s Lunch Logic was fun for me to envision. The ideas here are very simple, but they bring back some of our family’s favorite lunchbox items — favorites both for me, as the lunch-packer; and for the kids, as the
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
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
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