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Lunch Box Time

k2 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:35:56 +0000

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

k2 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:33:07 +0000

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…

k2 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:07:12 +0000

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

k2 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:46:09 +0000

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

k2 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:16:34 +0000

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 [...]

Next Week’s Menu

k2 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:55:30 +0000

No exciting content tonight, I’m afraid. It was a busy weekend around here. Saturday was birthday-party-palooza, followed by tired-kids-who-ate-too-much-sugar-meltdown-palooza. And today featured yet one more birthday party. Right now my fingers are crossed for a very quiet night.

I did make up a menu for next week, which will have to stand in for actual content.

Monday Spaghetti [...]

It’s What’s for Dinner and a Little Knitting

k2 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:06:37 +0000

I do my best to plan the week’s dinners in advance. When the Cupcakes were still very little and I was working my meal plan was the last fragile line of defense between me and a very hungry and unhappy family. Now that I’m attempting to blog on a slightly more regular basis (of course [...]

Not Much Knitting Today

k2 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:35:07 +0000

I didn’t do much knitting today, but I did manage to bake four loaves of bread from scratch. (Yay, me!)

Oh, and I did one more thing – I accompanied the Cupcakes to Beauty and the Beast. Recap here, with photos and everything. The show and “Prince and Princess (After-)Party” lasted much later than I had [...]