Kids are on holiday this week, think I will get them in the kitchen to help with dinner! Let’s see if I can put together a kid-cook-friendly menu. Wouldn’t it be delightful to just have to do the dishes this week?! Sunday: Green Chili, Cannellini Bean and Chicken Stew, fresh bread (Meatless) Monday: Tomato soup [...]
You know what – when Valentine’s Day falls mid-week, it is a huge pain the butt. Pretty much guarantees that there will be no special dinner, the best we can hope for is a card (which requires me to find the time to purchase said card and hope it comes with a cute message inside [...]
I went on a field trip to San Anselmo with Marsha yesterday to check out rockflowerpaper. They were having their annual warehouse sale and we stocked up on cute totes, gift bags, kitchen towels, espadrilles and hand crafted trays. Highly recommend a visit if you can get up there. Our freezer is still a mess. [...]
During the winter, when we don’t have our regular weekly CSA boxes, Mariquita Farms has a Mystery Box program to pick up the slack. Sort of like a CSA, but way more casual, interested folks signup for a box, delivered to a local spot, filled with whatever is ripe that week. In the middle of [...]
Very very soon, all of you who work (in or outside the home) will be invited by to sling wet noodles at my face. I feel as though I have been dutifully posting menus (each week since 2009), with the idea that they were somehow helpful to working moms who did not have time to cook. What [...]
With a short week, soccer starting (both Spring and Indoor), a science fair project or two, and a volunteer recognition dinner, the week’s menu needs to be easy and designed with planned over (leftovers) in mind. We arrived at the airport tonight after a weekend away, and stopped by Whole Foods on the way home, [...]
Wake up! Time to get started. We are already 8 days into the New Year and I feel behind. Well, not really behind, but there are definitely opportunities to take advantage of. Did you make any resolutions this year? The article in the NY Times this morning suggested that we have space for one resolution, [...]
Two interesting features I would like to highlight on the new and improved Kitchen Gadget Girl site (eventually I will move over to the Food in the Kitchen name, but I hate to rush into new things). First off, did you know you can print any of the recipes on Kitchen Gadget Girl? That’s right! [...]
Today was National Pie Day, at least according to the PR pitches I received last week. To celebrate, I designed a menu for tonight that contained two pies – deconstructed chicken pot pie and lemon cream tart. Technically, neither is really a pie, but at least the dessert was round. The deconstructed chicken pot pie [...]
With a bag full of vegetables from the Mariquita Farms mystery box languishing in the fridge, I really needed to come up with a menu plan this week. Also, we are into full scale winter sports, so making sure I have something ready when we get home after a game is important to everyone’s sanity. [...]
