As we slowly get back into routines and habits after vacation (yes, I am aware it has been nearly a month), quick meals are a lifesaver for me. In fact, if it isn’t a quick meal, it’s likely that we’ll be buying a meal instead. With an impending down payment, that just isn’t something we [...]
Sandwiches are a challenge for me. I tend to go the peanut butter jelly/honey route or feel stuck thinking that a good sandwich is loaded with meat. Avocados usually fix that for me, but at $1.80 for an iffy-quality avo, that’s just not been an option this year. Most produce hasn’t been much of an [...]
I’m digging this curry thing. I don’t know where these spices have been all my life. This one has curry spices mixed up in a dressing and poured over rice. It is supposed to have raisins and cilantro, too, but I’ll have to come back to this to tell you how that goes. Seems like there’s [...]
Far and away, my favorite thing to dip into hummus is pita chips. That’s not what this is about, but it reminds me that wheat and hummus were pretty much made for each other. I wasn’t about to use a huge brown rice tortilla for this wrap, and besides, I later discovered that brown rice [...]
Stroganoff sounds like a lot of work. Maybe it’s the name. Stroganoff. Strooooganoff. StroGANoff. It just sounds…official. Thorough. And really goofy if I try to say it with an Eastern European accent. It’s just not something I can do. Making the dish, on the other hand, turned out to be much less intimidating than its [...]
Would you believe that I’ve never had pesto? Really, I didn’t know what it was. I thought pasta came with two colors of sauces- white or red. I actually bought tomato sauce in anticipation of this recipe. I knew it had parsley, but I thought that was in addition to the red, like a Christmas [...]
Despite my efforts to stop it, it looks like summer is fully upon us- so much so that the boys pretty much don’t even want to be outside. That won’t do. We got them a little mud puddle pool over the weekend. It’s pretty much impossible to keep clean, but it does keep them outside, [...]
Stuffed peppers are a gimmick. You fill half a pepper with a meager portion of food, bake it until the outside is piping hot and the inside is questionable (unless you have already cooked the inners, in which case I say- I barely have time to cook once, let alone twice!), oooh and aaah about [...]
There are reasons that this has taken awhile to get to. I needed to make sauerkraut. I needed to like hotdogs. I needed to want hotdogs. I needed to get up the courage to buy veggie dogs. I needed to stop being a wuss. Grocery shopping came right in the middle of this anti-diet kick, [...]
If this isn’t a reason to eat vegan or even just vegetarian, I just don’t know what is. Isn’t it gorgeous? And yes, that is my knee as a table and what may be a baby bum in the background, but isn’t that the epitome of springtime? Spring has sprung. The boys have their first [...]
