Four for Dinner

I think I’ve figured out a couple of things after charring the boneless pork chops tonight. 1) S is a much better grill cook than I. He babysits his meats and vegetables on the grill and makes sure that everything that comes off of it is cooked to perfection. 2) I always wondered why grills [...]

I went to the farmer’s market with the girls on Saturday and it was packed. There were so many new purveyors of unusual foods, not just the usual fruits, vegetables and flowers. People were selling all sorts of baked goods, grass fed beef, fresh fish, crepes, brick oven pizza, chocolates, and more. It was really [...]

Here is the current plan – subject to change as my whim may take over and I’m not feeling very organized. That old inertia kicking in. I didn’t have much self control at the farmer’s market on Saturday and we have a lot of vegetables to polish off this week, so they may take center [...]

Time for another student council bake sale. I got the e-mail yesterday. Luckily, this time, there are two additional bakers added to the mix and we are each responsible for 36 muffins. One of the parents had a healthy cookie recipe, but because the recipe had chocolate chips in it, it was given the axe. [...]

I love the beginning of the weekend. It starts for me when school is out on Friday afternoon. This Friday, we had another family join us for dinner and pizza making. I thought that I’d try grilled pizza, but I couldn’t pull the trigger. I don’t know why. So, instead of trying a new recipe, [...]

Tonight, we couldn’t figure out if we wanted Puttanesca Sauce with our pasta or Amatriciana Sauce. J wanted only Amatriciana, L wanted Puttanesca, S didn’t care, and I was willing to make both and try a new recipe and freeze the leftovers. I had decided on Puttanesca earlier in the week, without thinking about a [...]

Am I a foodie? Am I not a foodie? Sometimes I am one or the other. Last night, I was both. L looked at the menu for the week and declared that “Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes were made to go together”. Where did I ever get this genius idea? Incredible. As the parent of a [...]

I used to have a subscription to Everyday Food magazine, which is published by Martha Stewart. The recipes are really accessible and usually very easy. I stopped getting the magazine because I have so many issues and recipes that I’ve never tried, that I figured I should stick with the copies I have before getting [...]

I feel like I have been good about not repeating dishes, but it is getting tough.  Some of our favorites bear repeating, but I’ll try for a few more new recipes (at least to the blog) before I repeat. Here is the plan: Monday: Broiled red snapper with lemon butter, lentils, cauliflower Tuesday: Honey Glazed [...]

After re-living my youth in my last post, I realized that the granola I had in the oven while blogging was first made popular around the same time-frame. I used to call it Super 70′s Granola, but I think I’ll rename it “Bay City Granola” after the Bay City Rollers and San Francisco, where I [...]