Okay, now that we’re in the homestretch of the $5-per-person dinner menu week, it’s occurred to me that this is both art and artifice. Cooking and eating is always (or should always be) an artistic endeavor, even if it’s just
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I missed posting last night, so I’ll make up for it tonight: TWO dinners that can be made for less than $5 per head, with no convenience ingredients, no processed items, only real food bought from real sources. Cool, huh?
Hooray! It’s $5 dinner week! Just to recap for those who aren’t in the loop, I’m taking part in the Slow Food USA $5 Challenge this Saturday. I’ll be making a totally from-scratch, sustainably sourced taco feast for friends and
L. and P. are in a Maurice Sendak phase right now. They’re generally found, these days, jumping around the house with “claws” bared as they enact the Wild Things’ rumpus; trying to stand on their heads like the contrary Pierre;
I’ve got a brain full of organized posts to write, but tonight is not the night for that. No, tonight is the night for deep breaths, headlong plunges into the fall routine, and sharing the bits and pieces of clutter
Hey readers…that lunch-packing post I wrote for “another blog” (very mysterious, right?) is up! Bettina of The Lunch Tray graciously invited me to write a post about packing lunches for her site, so I came up with what she’s amusingly
Sorry, sorry, sorry. For those who don’t know or don’t remember where I’m from…my home base is the lovely little state of Rhode Island, which just got smacked firmly with the effects of Hurricane Irene. Our home is actually fine —
Last night I introduced the idea of the add-on system for varying your kids’ lunches, without going crazy cooking tons of extra items, AND without pushing them so far outside the comfort zone of “familiar” lunch foods that they’d start
Earlier this week I wrote about my very simple lunchbox rule: just provide more than two opportunities for them to make good choices, and the rest will take care of itself. However, that rule is not, in and of itself,
It hasn’t escaped my notice that the internet is buzzing right now with back-to-school wisdom, especially in the realm of lunch packing. Some school districts began the new academic year as early as last week; many others, today; and still