Quick Review: A thoughtful, approachable, visually appealing cookbook that makes even The Most exotic recipe seem within reach. (This post contains affiliate links. That means when you click on a link, I get a small commission.) Isn’t this book pretty? I’m definitely guilty of judging a book by it’s cover. The photographs and layout inside …
I only have three kids but I might as well be feeding an army. It took me an awful long time to understand why people shop at warehouse stores. That one little bag of Pirate’s Booty from the supermarket barely lasts the ten minutes it takes me to put the groceries away. In our old …
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I have a terrible, well-meaning habit of offering help without really thinking it through. I just want to be helpful! Is that so wrong? No, I guess not but sometimes, it really comes back to bite me in the tush. The PTA is having their annual 5K tomorrow, and our elementary school’s Odyssey of the …
1. Alice made the menu this week. She even wrote it all down. Kindergarten is incredible. Also, she is making the perogies, probably. She made them last week and did a great job. 2. The Chickn’ Nuggets are from Quorn, a brand that I really like because it doesn’t use soy-based protein like most vegetarian …
Meat on Special? It just means that a local supermarket, a very fine one, was having a sale on ground chuck (yes, I’m aware of the recall! We were not affected by the recall, no worries) and Bell and Evans chicken. So, I bought more than I usually would and threw it in the freezer. …
1. Of course, that is my recipe! http://realnani.blogspot.com/2013/11/skillet-chicken-pot-pie.html 2. This fish recipe is so good, and I’ve made it with halibut, mahi maui and cod. Delicious.3. My recipe again, though I’m out of cheesecloth, so I will probably roast the chicken breast, pull off the meat and make a stock from the bones. http://realnani.blogspot.com/2013/11/balabusta-cred.html Also, confession time: …
{Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a free copy of The Good Mother Myth! See that post here: http://realnani.blogspot.com/2014/01/GoodMotherMyth.html} I was inspired by my friend Sovina to put flank steak on my menu this week. She makes skirt steak but the flank was cheaper and looked better than the skirt that was available at my …
Notes: We are not vegans but we do not eat a lot of meat, so I take a lot of inspiration from vegan and vegetarian cookbooks. We eat dairy and eggs, so I often use the real thing even in vegan recipes. Also on my list for the week: make greek yogurt (which can be …
The minute the weather cools off, I go into balabusta mode. Do you know this word, balabusta? I’ve heard it before, in the little snippets of Yiddish swirling around, but didn’t know what it meant. I looked it up after reading about a cookbook from the restaurant of the same name. Balabusta is a Yiddish expression describing a …
It’s been awhile since I wrote a food post, but I made a pesto sauce tonight that I want to record for posterity and share with you all, because it was delicious, if I say so myself! Because I’m pregnant/lazy/tired/hot/etc, I haven’t done a big shop yet this week and I’ve been scrounging around in …