Category: meal in a bowl
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Kale Salad with Apples, Red Onion, & Sunflower Seeds & Stopping Time
First thing’s first – this salad is for kale lovers and haters alike. It takes five minutes to prepare and can be meal on its own, made into a messy sandwich, added to an omelet, or served on the side of whatever else you’re having. Plus, it’s pretty and healthy and if you need to… Read more
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Carrot-Broccoli Cheddar Soup & Little House on the Prairie
I’m in bed, flanked on either side by my daughter, 9, and youngest son, 6. “Here she comes, falling down the hill!” Will says, putting his finger on my computer screen where fictional Laura Ingalls runs with her sisters. We’ve been making our way through the entire Little House on the Prairie series (having read… Read more
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Sweet or Savory English Porridge – for breakfast, lunch, or dinner…
How I long to sit and have porridge with my best childhood friend, Jules. We tend to talk for so long that entire days slide by when we’re together. At her charming house outside of London, our kids played in the garden, our spouses talked sports and fish n’ chips, and inside, we laughed about… Read more
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Pasta with Fresh Mozzarella, Arugula, Peas, and Heirloom Tomatoes
About this time of year the reality of shorter days catches up with me. Winter looms here on the east coast, and crisp days of fall are slipping to the days where the sky looks like old, dried paste. Which is also what I’m using to make this year’s costume for my youngest, who is… Read more
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Red Onion, Tomato, Double Cheese Galette with Corn & Garbanzo Crust
This started as many recipes do, with good intentions…until I reached for the wrong flour. Is there an incorrect one? I guess. If you’re making traditional chocolate chip cookies, for example, and you use chickpea flour, maybe the results aren’t what you wanted. But for this gallette, the garbanzo bean flour wound up in my… Read more
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10-Minute Escarole, White Bean, and Parmesan Soup & (Not) The Smartest Phone
I don’t talk on the phone while driving (nor do I text, but that should be a given, right?). However, I find the hands-free option that comes with my cheap phone very useful while my fingers are caked with cream and espresso from the tiramisu I made this weekend (recipe to come!). My phone is… Read more
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Tomato-Onion Soup with Fresh Parmesan & Happy Days
Dear Scott Baio, Thanks for appearing in my dream last night! The party was really fun, even though the staircase had weird turquoise and brown carpet and there were chickens inside your house and there was no soup in my mug. I’m sorry to say that you are 30 years too late in your proposal.… Read more
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Creamy Carrot Soup & Play These Games (Mother’s Day Gift)
If I were to make a list of life’s necessities for my kids, my friend, Heather, would be in the top five. Well, not Heather, exactly – I mean, she takes great care of herself but she won’t be around forever – but someone like her. Someone in their lives they can call just to… Read more
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Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie with Buttermilk Biscuits & Random Bedtime Routines
This is a typical bedtime scene: Julia (age 7 3/4): Can I have a song? Me: Which one? J: Met my old lover in the grocery store. [my husband is apparently working his way through the entire 1970s singer-songwriter genre, a guilty pleasure of mine while driving, so I knew she meant Same Old Lang… Read more
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Buried Treasure (Flounder with Baby Greens, Caramelized Onions, & Parmesan) & I’m Back
Hello! NO, you didn’t imagine it – it has been a while…Reason? You want reasons? Okay… My oldest son and I went on a volunteer trip to Central America – great experience, rewarding, challenging, fun, and yes, recipes to follow… Middle son went back to school, which has been a transition for everyone… And I… Read more
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Deep Dish Salmon, Kale, and Potato Pie & Revisited Recipes
Spring in the UK comes early, and when I brought my daughter to see her godmother in London it was a flurry of blossoms, green stubbled grass, and muddy tromps in borrowed boots. We had a gaggle of kids, and the kind of laughs that are only shared with very old friends, wind-red faces from… Read more
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Passover Leek, Kale, and Bok Choy Gratin & Freedom ’12
As we prepare for family and discussions of religious, political, and intellectual freedom, my family celebrates the year marker of a different kind of freedom. Freedom from the Year That Was, moving past a dark time and into the spring. My son returns to school, the crocuses bloom in the yard, the weather goes from… Read more
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Vegetarian Boston Baked Beans & Bad Songs to Sing at Bedtime
If there’s a skill of mine that will never be rewarded financially, and in fact only serves as a road trip plus or game night choose me incentive, it is my ability for lyric recall. All that brain space that is supposed to be taken up by useful facts and figures is chock full of… Read more
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Ultimate Grilled Cheese (Triple Creme, Quince, and Arugula) & Other Places
I’ve lived in ots of different places, dangled many a key from my chain, hefted moving boxes across the ocean, over state lines, and back. I’m not planning on any of that again. However, when I go to San Francisco I always have that thought: I could live here! Easily. If I did, I’d be… Read more
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Mussels, Clams, & Shrimp Mariniere & Nightlights
“I have an idea,” says the 4-year-old. “I could go back inside you where I lived before I was born. But this time, I would like a nightlight.” PS Yes, the kids asked to have this for dinner. They ate it and loved it…until the very end when my daughter began examining each bite… Read more