If you’re new here, you may want to start here. There are other weekend meal preps detailed here, here and here. With the onset of spring, I’ve been taking more walks outside. It’s my one hour of true ‘me time’ during the day where I put on headphones and listen to a podcast or just…
I’m at the stage of motherhood where I want to go back and relive the last 26 months all over again, knowing what I know now. Knowing that tiny infant, who needed the comfort of my chest and the warmth of my breath on the top of his head to sleep for hours, would, in…
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…
One day last fall, I was sitting in the kitchen, looking around the first floor of our house at baskets of LEGOS and blocks and drawers overflowing with trucks and tractors. I thought, “We need a playroom.” We have lots of storage on our main floor, but at the end of the day, it always…