Food

I turned 43 this past week, and Elie and I snuck away to Vancouver for one night, to stroll and eat and go to some kick-butt workout classes and spend uninterrupted time focused on each other. It felt like the perfect way to celebrate this year, a year in which beginning another sweet turn around […]

We spent the last week in Palm Springs for a quick warm weather getaway. I had every intention of doing cooking while we were there, but instead, we made some simple meals, got take-out from our favorite places, and spent a lot of time around the pool with family and dear friends. Priorities.

I will start out by acknowledging that this is, in no way, an authentic bowl of pho. But, that doesn’t mean it’s not delicious.

Based on feedback on the meal planning posts, it sounds like ideas for dinner menus are helpful, but what would be more useful are practical ideas on how to bulk cook over the weekend for breakfast, lunch and dinner during the week.

I can't believe it's taken me this long to share my recipe for shakshuka, since it's a staple in our home, one we make a few times a month, for breakfast and, most often, for dinner. I'm sure you must know about shakshuka, right? Ottolenghi made the dish famous in 2012 with the publication of […]

Did you follow along with last week's meal plan? I hope you're finding these helpful! Sometimes the hardest part of making dinner is deciding what to have, so I'm enjoying creating these meal plans each week. Throughout the week, I'm tagging recipes I see, or leafing through cookbooks to see the pages I've bookmarked, both […]

We're still in Mexico right now, but we're headed back home tomorrow. It's been a wonderful trip, and we've certainly caught the Baja bug. We're already looking at a return trip next February. Celebrating Theo's birthday here (on February 11) might become an annual tradition. 

  I'm so excited to introduce meal plans to the site! Last year, one of my intentions was to be more organized and thoughtful in stocking our refrigerator and pantry, doing some bulk cooking, and planning meals throughout the week. Obviously, some weeks, this just didn't get done. But, as a former (and by that, […]

Welcome to my new website! This project has been many months in the works, to create a website with a new look, feel and navigation that matches my goals for this year and the years to come. If you're new here, you might start here to learn a little more about me. Or here, to […]

I had planned on writing a longer, more thoughtful Christmas post, wrapping up all of my feelings about this season, this year. But here we are, on the 26th, and I'm scrambling to piece together a few words while Theo takes his afternoon nap.