Well, a year after I started and then gave up trying to document this, our situation is essentially unchanged. While there are potential developments, feeding our growing family healthy meals on a tight budget has become our new normal. How has that worked, over the last year? I’ve gotten much better at […]
Yesterday was the annual fun run/walk that kicks off a local festival weekend. Secunda was set to participate, so I got her from afterschool a bit early, ran home, refried some canned black beans and grated some cheese, and we had quesadillas. We had leftover side salads from Memorial Day (Broccoli Slaw) and Tuesday (Iceberg […]
Some people meal plan by making a list of meals and checking them off as they use them, in whatever order they may decide. I find that I need more detail than that. As I’ve said, the meal plan is tied to specific calendar concerns and often includes planned leftovers. It also helps me to […]
We pulled the grill out from under the deck, scrubbed it clean, and fired it up this evening. Dinner tonight was burgers, potato salad, slaw (broccoli slaw) and S’mores. Earlier today, I asked Olaf to cube and simmer some potatoes until they were tender but not mushy, while I took the kids to the pool. […]
Goulash. Gulyas. It’s not really a “family recipe,” since by the time I was growing up in a blue-collar working-class neighborhood, “Goulash” was a puddle of ground beef and tomato sauce served over elbow macaroni. But its the kind of stew that speaks to my Eastern European roots. And it takes a […]
Meal Planning happened, and I shopped yesterday. Things I had to keep in mind: My younger child is in an evening event at a local fair on Thursday night and needs to be there by 6. My older child has a band trip and leaves on Friday morning. There’s also a band concert […]
Tonights dinner, as outlined in the short-week meal plan, was a Dutch Baby pancake. To feed four strapping Dutch folks (Olaf had his DNA done by Family Tree DNA last year, confirming that he is descended from Vikings, Frisians, and other hardy North Sea Peoples), we make the biggest version. Thursday is supposed to be […]
So I went to visit a friend last week. I planned simple things I knew Olaf (that’s the psued I’m going with for the husband) could deal with: Pancake Thursday, Pasta Friday, and Pizza Saturday (homemade – O’s a wizard with a yeasted dough). And then I took off for other parts. But that meant […]
So what was for dinner last night? Leftovers. I made a pot of basmati rice. While it was cooking I sautéed a pepper and some garlic, threw in a can of diced tomatoes and the other half the black beans I cooked Sunday for tacos. That simmered while the rice steamed and I stirred them […]
Dinner tonight was meant to be relatively quick and easy after the all-afternoon production number of yesterday’s feast. “Michigan Hotdish” is the family name for something I grew up eating: thin coins of smoked sausage fried up with onions, cubed potatoes, and apples. Mom was unable to give it a name other than “you know, […]
Laid Off Locavore 