Tangy ice cream with a chocolate wafer ripple

When I was a kid approximately one million years ago, my parents gave me a Donvier ice cream maker. When we moved back to California four years ago, my mom revealed that she had been hanging on to it all this time, and gave it back to us; I promptly put it in the bottom […]

We Ate It This Week – Menu Planning Update

Some weekends I take on big cooking projects, to try out recipes that are more time or labor intensive. This… was not one of those weeks. It’s summer after all, and we ate giant lunches both Saturday and Sunday, so dinner was more of a formality. Lots of salady things to suit the hot weather, too.

Hawaiian Style Lettuce Wraps

There is a glaring lack of pineapple in this recipe. When you read “Hawaiian style” anything, doesn’t it always have pineapple in it? According to my poor niece, who is allergic to pineapple, everything seems to have pineapple in it, even the least tropical-sounding suspects.

We Ate It This Week – Meal Planning Update

[layerslider id=”4″] This week didn’t go as planned. But it ended up working out just fine, although I have to say it was luck more than my own generous flexibility or anything. We ended up staying out late Monday night (we are now the proud owners lessees of a cute plug-in Ford C-Max!) so we […]

We ate it this week

I’m still ready to evangelize about menu planning to anyone who will listen: I think it saves time, wastes less food, and is fun! We definitely eat better when we plan ahead, too. In the first of a (occasional?) series, here’s a rundown from last week’s plan, with notes. Monday: Cauliflower crust “pizza”, which was […]