This is not the first time I’ve attempted this dinner. It’s actually the third. I would say that the third time’s the charm, but I think it’s more like “knowing what you are making” is the charm. Let me back track. I have had meat loaf a grand total of one time. My then eight [...]
Although I actually did meal plan before grocery shopping, I seem to have misplaced the little notebook that I scribbled it onto. It’s somewhere in the van, but getting to the van means going outside in cold, damp weather. I have no interest in that. To cope, I have been trying to remember what was [...]
As much as I have tried to avoid this pun, I just can’t. This soup was of satan. (Satan/seitan..get it? Bahaha. Ok. Enough.) Seriously, though, I had it on my meal plan for weeks. Months? If I had seitan, I didn’t have barley. If I had barley, I had forgotten to soak it. If I’d [...]
When I first made the Lentil Steaks, Hubby was impressed that he liked it. After all, it was made of lentils. “Well,” he told me, “as long as they aren’t in soup, I think I can do them. Lentil soup is GROSS.” Yet there…in the pages of my beloved cookbook…was a lentil soup. I’ve stalled. [...]
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Last night, I are a slice of tofu. If you can make anything out from that wonderful piece of blackberry photography, you will see that I browned it into oblivion, but that is beside the point. I ate it. If you recall, my first big tofu dish was [...]
This was a nightmare. Truly. I’d initially thought that dinner was to be Seitan “Chicken” and Barley Stew, and although I had remembered (finally) to soak the barley, I’d forgotten to check the recipe for other ingredients. When I realized I didn’t have some very important ingredients, I resorted to actually looking at my meal [...]
This past weekend, we took off for what will presumably be the last trip with just the 4 of us. It’s really weird to think about that, since we have really gotten into a groove as a family. For this weekend, though, we didn’t think about it. We didn’t think about the things left the [...]
It’s increasingly clear to me that time management is a big hurdle that I just need to scale (yes, I meant “scale.” Can you imagine my big ol’ pregnant body leaping a hurdle?) Things like Seitan “Chicken” and Barley Stew need some advance prep- like 6 hours of soaking the barley. I am not sure [...]
Once upon a time, a semi-spoiled-but-mostly-not-snotty girl disliked Asian food. When her family would go to the Chinese buffets, she would be ever so slightly grossed out, enough that the only things she deemed edible were on the American side. You know, the greasy chicken and bland pizza. In an effort to keep her from [...]
The first time we made this, I couldn’t finish mine. Hubby ate it up. I choked half of one down. I had barely heard of the combination of black beans and sweet potatoes, much less in an enchilada. Still, I’m always up for trying things once. Apparently, I’m up for trying them twice. I’m glad [...]
