The seed catalogs and garden catalogs are starting to show up in my mailbox and it’s making me excited about the coming year and some of the things we have planned to do around the property! Last year was our “discovery” year, so most of …
This weeks meal plan includes lots of soup. I’m in a soup phase and we’ll just have to deal with it! Last week’s Friday dinner didn’t happen as we were deep into planning Saturday’s event. We wound up reheating leftovers and making toasted sandwiches, so …
Adding more “lifestyle” to this here blog! How about a roundup of my reading each month? Maybe y’all will be interested, maybe not – but we’ll see how it goes, shall we? Here’s what I read in January of 2022: My favorite book this month …
. I’m late with the post today: My excuse is that today is my birthday and it felt like a weekend day, but also, I just plain forgot. So here we go. ONE In a little blog cleanup: I’ve moved the Monday Meal Plan posts …
Right before the Covid lockdowns started a couple of years ago, we were starting to see “poke” shops popping up everywhere around here. If you’re not familiar with it, poke (pronounced poh-KAY) is a Hawaiian dish of raw fish served with soy or sesame oil …
This weeks meal plan is slimmed down because we still have a fridge full of leftovers and a freezer full of freezer meals. Also continuing to add recipes from Grains for Every Season by Joshua McFadden and The Weekday Vegetarians: 100 Recipes and a Real-Life …
. ONE If you haven’t heard by now, you can go online and order free Covid tests to be delivered to your home. Right now every household is eligible for a 4-pack of tests. You can order them here: https://special.usps.com/testkits . TWO Zach and I …
This soup is one of my go-to lunch soups, especially as the weather gets colder. It’s dead simple to make, keeps well, freezes well, and can be jazzed up multiple ways to keep it from getting boring.
Last weeks meal plan was fairly successful. We stuck to the plan for dinners, but I miscalculated for lunches and we wound up with more food waste than I’m happy with. This week I’m adding some lunch planning to the spreadsheet. Also this week I’ve …
We’ve made it through two full weeks of 2022 and so far, so good! Here are my five things for this week. ONE I bought a juicer! I realized after finishing my week of juicing last Friday that I do feel much better if I …
This tomato sauce is at the heart of a good number of the dishes I make on a regular basis as well as being a go-to for a quick and easy dinner when the meal plan falls through. I always want to keep some in …
Welcome to the first Meal Plan Monday! Meal planning is nothing new for me. I’ve always kept a rough meal plan and shopping list in my household Excel file but over the last couple of years it has gotten a little more complex. Zach and …