Our weeks are getting busy! Building a menu plan each week helps ensure dinner is on the table for the nights we are home, and prevents last minute scrambling. Plus, making a plan means less wastes because using all the vegetables in our weekly CSA boxes becomes so much easier. Hey! This is the first
Our vegetable box from Fifth Crow Farms is definitely moving towards fall with Purple potatoes, Green Zebra tomatoes, Baby kale mix, Poblano peppers, Strawberries, Yellow onions, Green beans, Fennel, Thyme, and Baby lettuces. I am looking for a couple short cuts this week for dinner, just to make my life easier, so I am incorporating
December 2016, we took a Christmas Markets trip over the school holidays. DH had wanted to do this for years and because the kids were out of school on December 15, we had enough time before Christmas to make this trip possible. Christmas Markets are an annual tradition in Europe, street markets that celebrate the season
With our holiday week and only four days to deal with, one would think it would be easy to throw a menu together. But here I am, Monday night, playing catchup. In our Fifth Crow Farms CSA box this week, we found Yukon Gold potatoes, Early Girl tomatoes, Baby lettuce mix, Green cabbage, Parsley, Green
I thought the post title deserved an exclamation, the kids are back to school this week. Yeah! However, now we have to deal with cross country practice, after school conditioning, homework, Boy Scout meetings, and various other activities using our time. I look forward to at least one of the kids driving soon. Our CSA
Of course, next week’s post will be titled Back to School. Can you tell I might be a little excited?! The kids are going back to school, and so am I. I needed to mix things up a little bit and our local junior colleges offer great classes at a good price. I will be
We picked up fresh halibut this weekend from Real Good Fish, as well as tomatoes from Mariquita Farms and our regular CSA box from Fifth Crow Farms. In our CSA box, we found Broccoli, Romano Green Beans, Basil, Strawberries, Raspberries, Butter Lettuce, Diva Cucumbers, Spring Onions and Summer squash. Dinners this week will be epic!
The big guy needed a new bed, something to support his growing height. I searched high and low for twin XL beds with storage, but couldn’t find any that would fit our space constraints. It became clear the easiest plan was to make our own. Using the BESTÅ storage system components from IKEA, we created a bed
Our tradition, for the last three weeks, is that I bake a loaf of no-knead sourdough bread Sunday morning and we have BLTs for lunch, using bacon from the 1/2 pig we purchased from Linda’s Tasty Pork in Carmel Valley. A 9th generation Californian, Linda Ferrasci operates Rancho Chupinos, which has been in the family since 1878. In
Our guys were gone last week, which meant we had the whole house (and menu plan) to ourselves! Dinners became casual, unhurried, cook-together affairs that were enjoyable and relaxing after a long day at camp. Here was our menu plan for our 2017 Girls Staycation: Monday: Salad bar with local oak leaf lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell