Four for Dinner

Some like soup and sandwiches for lunch. We like it for dinner. We have this combo frequently. It is such an easy meal. Vegetables in the soup. Protein in the sandwich. If you aren’t eating bread, for whatever reason, you could certainly substitute a salad. Tonight we had J’s request: Artichoke Soup. Everyone usually has [...]

Normalcy returns. The girls go back to school tomorrow. Even though it is Monday, it feels like Sunday. We do errands today and no museums or aquariums. It is strange how fast a week flies by, even at home. I’ll be happy to get back to a routine. I’m also happy to get back to [...]

Have you ever eaten jellyfish? I have. It doesn’t taste like chicken. In fact, it doesn’t even taste like much of anything. Jellyfish is sort of crunchy and chewy, but not as chewy as overcooked squid. It takes on the taste of the sauce in which it is served or cooked. It is something that [...]

My favorite holiday is Passover. I love the tradition of it and the lack of commercialism surrounding it. My favorite part of the holiday is the seder dinner – making the meal, setting the table, putting together the seder plate, reading the Haggadah (we finally bought new ones and graduated from the Maxwell House version), [...]

Our week of vacation at home means that we are going to be having lots of meals on the road this week, as we explore San Francisco. The days when we have lunch out, we’ll have light dinners, and the days when we have dinner out, we’ll have light lunches. Today, we had lunch at [...]

There are some grocery items that are so standard, and ubiquitous, they are not something that one would consider making at home. Unless, you are a little bit strange, like me. I would like to make many of those standard items. In fact, many go with tonight’s dinner: ketchup, bread and butter pickles, potato chips, [...]

It serves me right for not using my usual Paella recipe. I figured that I’d wing it with no problem. Didn’t even look at the timing or the quantities, if only for reference purposes. That is why we didn’t sit down to dinner tonight with Grandma and WG until 7:30. More than an hour after [...]

Well, having the kids taste everything has paid off. Last night, quinoa got the thumbs up! Shocking and satisfying. I was sure that when I said, “Come on, just one bite,” I’d get the pinched up face, the rolling eyes. But, instead, I got the nodding head. From both girls, no less. One more food [...]

Tonight we are having a decidedly non-”kid food” dinner. And, I cater a little bit to my kids when I make dinners like this. What I am preparing isn’t fancy, but it isn’t what the typical American kid would eat these days. Here comes my preaching and also my guilt, because I do cave-in to [...]