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Family Dinner Plan: Roast chicken and Bora Bora Fireballs
Monday starts the second week of our Whole30 clean eating challenge. 7 days done, 23 more to go, and when we make it past this week, it will be smooth sailing! Once I get into the groove of...
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Family Dinner Plan: Fresh roast ham, sausages and sauerkraut, Brussels sprout...
Welcome to the fourth menu plan for the Whole30 challenge – do us a favor and ignore the fact that I did not put up a week 3 menu. If you are curious about what we consumed, follow along on Facebook...
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Family Dinner Plan: Green Garlic is here!
Spring time brings lovely green garlic, garlic which has been harvested before maturity. Very nice flavor, mild but still garlicky, I use it almost anywhere I would use regular garlic. Also in our box...
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Family Dinner Plan: New greens for salads
Our box this week from Mariquita featured a few new (to us) greens – Shungiku and Young Mustard. The recommendation from Julia is to treat these like any salad green, or use for cooking greens. We...
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Family Dinner Plan: Busy Week
Really, aren’t they all? Anywho, a couple evening meetings and training sessions means I need to have my ducks in a row for dinner this week (I have told you how important this plan is to my overall...
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Family Dinner Plan: Its a new school year
New year, new schedule, chaos reigns. I am sure you have heard it all before. In a slightly-over-the-top-I-am-probably-insane move, I created a calendar for the next three months, through the end of...
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Family Dinner Plan: Mediterranean Monday
We have themes in our house – Taco Tuesday (or Thursday), Fajita Friday, Meatless Monday (although we have not done that in a while). The kids look forward to it and it makes it easy to plan at least...
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Family Dinner Plan: Still, the sous vide
Last week I wrote about my new sous vide machine and this week I have had a couple opportunities to play around with the device. The photo above is from dinner on Thursday night, a super easy Teriyaki...
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Family Dinner Plan: New camera
A study of zucchini. Zucchini three ways. Reflections on zucchini. Our box from Fifth Crow Farm contained the above mentioned zucchini and summer squash, beets, leeks, new purple potatoes, baby...
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Family Dinner Plan: Coaching soccer
In addition to lots of other activities, I also coach youth soccer. I have been doing this on and off for about 10 years, and each year I think I might be ready to move on and then I decide to pick up...
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Family Dinner Plan: Is summer really over?
Of course it isn’t. Just because the kids go back to school and there is a chill in the evening air does not mean summer is over. Tomatoes are just coming in season, for goodness sake! Our box from...
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Family Dinner Plan: Summer’s last gasp
The weather is confused. Instead of cooling days, leaves turning color and stews and curries on the stove, our September temperatures have been hot making way for grilling, coleslaw and dinner salads....
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Winter vegetables
Our first box of the new year came this weekend from Mariquita Farms, with farm land in Watsonville and Hollister. In our box, we found Red Chard, Radishes, Cauliflower, Rapini, White Turnips, Dill,...
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Beets and turnips
Honestly, this time of year is a little difficult vegetable-wise, because we have loads of turnips, beets and other root vegetables which are a little less easy to eat raw. Not that we don’t, but our...
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Tomatoes and more tomatoes
Our tradition, for the last three weeks, is that I bake a loaf of no-knead sourdough bread Sunday morning and we have BLTs for lunch, using bacon from the 1/2 pig we purchased from Linda’s Tasty Pork...
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Family dinner plan
Our weeks are getting busy! Building a menu plan each week helps ensure dinner is on the table for the nights we are home, and prevents last minute scrambling. Plus, making a plan means less wastes...
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Visit the farm
This weekend we visited Fifth Crow Farm in Pescadero and met some of the farmers who grow our food. Lunch was pizza from Uncie Ro, who travels with a portable wood-fire oven. We tasted 10 varieties of...
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Menu Plan October 8-13
Taking dinner to a friend this week, so as I think about my menu plan, I will incorporate a dinner for her family as well. The Make-Ahead Cook from America’s Test Kitchen (click here for more details)...
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Menu Plan October 29-November 3
Here we are, almost the first week of November. Yeah, whatever, time moves quickly. I will be happy when we get past the college application process, that is consuming us now. Yeah, I know, I am not...
View ArticleThanksgiving Menu Plan (with recipes)
Thinking about next week, and my family coming into town, and my own excitement about the holiday, I thought it would be wise to start planning the menu well in advance. This will allow me to delegate...
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