Here it is again: The Spring Gauntlet. Parents know what I’m talking about. It’s that time of year when you’re finally breathing after the holidays and the gloom and doom of winter and all of that mess….and just as the
Tag: Household organization
Things that are predictable about March around here: There will be a random spate of busy weekends There will be a birthday (okay, a dual birthday — mine and P.’s) There will be a Saint Patrick’s Day dinner with my
I know it’s cheesy to say that this month’s meal plan is all about love — how VALENTINE’S DAY, how LAME. But I don’t really mean it as an homage to the non-holiday that is February 14th. The thing is,
So here’s a new term: “Bomb Cyclone.” It’s a thing, and it’s supposed to impact something like 41 million Americans starting tomorrow….including we New Englanders. Currently, the weather forecasters are estimating that our city here in RI will get as
Well, here we are. It’s the end of 2017 and I know I’m not alone in saying: BYE, FELICIA. It’s been…real. As in, real bad. In some ways, I guess I owe 2017 something. It was, after all, the year
This month, even more than in past years, I’ve got to stay one step ahead of myself. Or more. Because the next few weeks are…well, yikes. I’ve got a big concert to sing with my choral group, an unexpected business
With a dinner plan that doesn’t necessarily lend itself effortlessly to quick packing of leftovers for school lunches, this week is more about reinvention of ingredients than we’ve done recently. To come up with the lunch menus, I had to
The Columbus Day holiday means that this week’s lunch menu only includes four days’ worth of meals. The extra day off also means that I’ll have additional prep time, but because the menus are exclusively based around leftovers, I won’t
Five days into October (sorry for the delay) and already, the freezer meals I started putting by in August and September are SAVING MY BUTT. Sidebar for a second here: It feels weirdly cool to sit in a meeting where
This week’s plan requires a little more prep than we’ve been doing, but is still pretty intuitive — I’ll just take foods that we’re already working with, and reinvent them purposefully for lunchtime. Weekend Prep: I’ll roast three chickens on