Lunch Box Time

My calendar tells me that June is here, even if the weather vehemently disagrees. (As I type this it is 55 degrees outside and raining.) Beginning the first week of June the girls’ preschool goes into ‘camp mode’. Every Friday they take a mini-field trip to a neighborhood park and each child brings a sack [...]

Yogurt

I’m making yogurt today. After messing up the first batch (don’t ask) the second came out looking wonderful. Right now I’m just waiting for it to set. I even took pictures.

Or at least I think I did. You see, I can’t find my lovely point-and-shoot camera so I borrowed DH’s , wonderful, insanely complicated one. [...]

Dinner This Week Will Be…

Monday – Potstickers
Tuesday – Sausage and Roasted Vegetable Penne
Wednesday – Minestrone Soup
Thursday – Cauliflower and Caramelized Onion Tart
Friday – Out
Saturday – Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts
Best Make-Ahead Recipe p. 93
Sunday – Linguini with Chicken, Artichokes & Peas in Garlic Cream [...]

More Dinners

If I want to continue posting my weekly dinner menus I’m going to have to come up with some more inventive titles. “This Week’s Menu, Part 52″ just isn’t going to cut it.

This week’s menu is brief, only three days’ worth. We’re heading out of town for a few days, which means the girls will [...]

Soup. It's What's for Dinner

Well, it’s what was for dinner earlier this week. Mr. zella was down with a cold earlier this week. Luckily for him homemade chicken soup was on the menu. I’m still on a huge Mother’s Best kick right now, so I tried Lisa’s recipe for her mother’s homemade chicken soup.

I started out by simmering the [...]