My menu this week was created with recipes straight out of my Sunday newspaper! How easy is that? Easy. Here is my menu plan for the week of December 10: Sunday: Shepherd’s Pie with sweet potato crust, roasted Brussel sprouts, salad with fennel and persimmons Monday: Spaghetti squash with walnut-sage pesto, grilled chopped steak, salad [...]
Did you Boo your neighbors yet? Or co-workers? It is pretty fun, and there is still time! Our box from Mariquita Farms featured Chard, Butternut Squash, Carrots, Broccoli, Anaheim Chiles, Early Girl Tomatoes, Leeks, Beets, and Heirloom Tomatoes. And of course we have a freezer full of local meat, so along with our slow cooker, [...]
It is finally cooling down around here and I am going to be bringing out the slow cooker and pressure cooker this week for a couple fix-and-forget meals, and a couple throw-together-fast meals. We are also reintroducing foods we gave up during the Whole30 challenge, to gauge our body’s reactions. So far, I don’t love [...]
This week brings the last few days of the Whole30 Challenge, yippee! This week also brings re-entry, introducing foods that were eliminated during the challenge to determine my specific reactions. I already have a guess or two about how I will react to wheat, but I am curious to see how it goes with dairy. [...]
Monday is October, how quickly the first 6 weeks of school have flown by. And how quickly the first 20 days of the Whole30 challenge have come and gone. Now that we are on the downhill side of the challenge, I am starting to think about re-entry and how to manage the intense desires towards [...]
The first 6 days of the Whole30 challenge were, well, challenging. For the last few weeks, I have been reducing my sugar intake and cutting back on most breads and pastas, but that still did not prepare me for complete removal of these items from my diet. I was a little tired mid-week, and one [...]
Oh, I am feeling so trendy this week! DH and I have decided to embark on a Whole30 Challenge, an eating movement made popular by Melissa and Dallas Hartwig (among others), who encourage participants to eat a diet which closely resembles that of our long-ago ancestors. Often called Paleo, or Primal, or Caveman, this diet [...]
Happy day-after-Labor Day! Hope you all had a relaxing weekend full of lots of healthy, outdoor activities. As we move quickly into this short week, I need to pull together a fast menu; our box from Mariquita Farms has some good basics this week. Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Yellow Onions, Swiss Chard, Apples (apples! Must be [...]
Ah, the joy of late fall/early winter dinners. Slow cookers and pressure cookers become my BFFs, for their ability to transform everyday food stuffs into delightful soups and stews perfectly suited to cold weather and busy schedules. Last week’s menu, particularly the Slow Cooker Beef Barley Soup, was great. The Farro with Butternut squash made [...]
Apologies for those of you totally into the NaBloPoMo and eagerly awaiting my last few posts. I sort of fell apart this week (even with the lame-o editorial calendar I put together). The good news is that I have gone back to work (part-time, don’t panic); the bad news is I have less time to [...]
Our first week without a box from Mariquita Farms and it is probably a good thing. We have a busy post-holiday week ahead and I think we may end up eating out more than in. Last week’s menu turned out well – the Lime-Cilantro Sweet Potatoes were excellent, and while the crab feed lacked crab [...]
From a menu planning standpoint, last week was a disaster. The menu plan was good, but our schedule was all wonky, and we ended up abandoning the entire plan by Tuesday night. We still ate well and at this point in the season, many of the vegetables in our box from Mariquita have good [...]
