Note: This post is part of the #FoodDay #DinnerParty event hosted by yours truly, as well as Bettina Siegel of The Lunch Tray, Grace Freedman of EatDinner.org, and Jeanne Fratello of The Jolly Tomato. To catch up on what this
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Boy, have I been busy — too busy to post, clearly. But don’t feel neglected, friends, because I haven’t forgotten you. One of the things on my agenda for the past week has been working on a little dinner party…for
This is it, friends — the night on which I share with you my efforts to make dinner for less than $1 per person. In other words, dinner — a healthy, unprocessed, filling, hopefully delicious, and generally well-sourced — for
I’m freshly back from a wonderful weekend adventure with 5-year-old L., and my mind is churning on — what else? — food politics. My fabulous firstborn and I took his first big train trip to New York City, to visit my
I’m impossibly busy tonight, so unfortunately, I have to rush through this post (as much as I’d like to do anything BUT rush). I’ve got tons of cooking going on! Oh, I know — this is ME we’re talking about.
Last night was the last of the $3 per person dinner nights in our house, but I don’t have a photo to share with you. Sorry, but I couldn’t photograph that meal…because it all fell apart. Literally. Our evening was
Dinner for $3 a person is much easier, I think, than it seemed like it would be. I may be resting on my laurels a bit, since we’re not quite done with the 3-for-$3 challenge week, but I haven’t felt
If you want to get a recalcitrant toddler to eat his spinach, apparently, make it seem like pizza. At least, that’s the rule of the week in our house, as P. continues his strike against anything green (we’re on about
Dinner and Donations… It’s been so busy since my last post, I haven’t had a chance to update you all on the end of the $5 dinner week…nor get started on $4 dinner week! Yeesh, have I got a
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