Every weekend my husband and I ask each other the same question, several times, with increasing desperation: “What do you want to eat this week?” After having lived together for over a decade, you would think we would have this down to a fine science (nope, we don’t). However, we do sometimes luck into an […]
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Packing Your Lunch for Work
Judging by the contents of the communal fridge in my office, everyone’s packing their lunch to save a few dollars and avoid going out in the cold. Packing a lunch seems like an easy way to save money, but after a few weeks of the daily grind, it’s hard not to succumb to the lure […]
Oatmeal: how to make it awesome
Over the Christmas holidays, as the temperatures dipped below -25 celcius, we hunkered down enjoying leisurely breakfasts over large cups of coffee. There were crepes, toasted homemade bread and pancakes. But now it’s January, and we’ve returned to regular life and regular breakfast. In the mornings I need something fast, satisfying, and easy to feed […]
Healthy Holiday Meals
I almost always overindulge over the holidays. Often, I want to eat healthier after having a big Christmas dinner and eating 100 cookies, but I don’t feel like eating a salad. I want to eat things that still feel festive and cozy without being too rich. Here a couple of recipes I really like that […]
Food Gifts for New Moms
I’ve reached the time in my life where babies seem to be coming out of the woodwork. First babies! Brand new, lovely smelling, teeny tiny babies. Like most people I like to bring a gift when meeting the baby for the first time. But these babies are usually well-equipped. They are fortunate to be born […]
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Weekly Reads: easy chicken stew
Welcome to Weekly Reads, where we share things we’ve found around the web. I’ve always liked chicken stew, but never knew how to make it. All the recipes I saw always seemed overly complicated. Until I came across the Smitten Kitchen Chicken Pot Pie recipe. I have no need to make pie crust ever in […]
Sticky Sesame Granola
This sesame granola will appeal to anyone who likes sesame snaps. Sticky, sweet, with the nutty flavor of toasted sesame seeds. Also, instead of crumbling this into granola you can slice it and eat it as granola bars. I love love love granola. Whenever we buy a box it disappears within a day or two. […]
Two ways to preserve blueberries (without canning)
Speaking of bumper crop, we’ve had the wonderful problem this year of having too many blueberries. In the few short months since we moved to Europe we’ve done more foraging in the forest than I’ve done in my entire life. We’ve picked teeny tiny wild strawberries (if only all strawberries tasted like those, oh man) […]
Slow Roasted Tomato Sauce
This is my recipe for slow roasted tomato sauce…aka the best use of those extra garden tomatoes. Last year was a surprising bumper crop of tomatoes from our garden. Four “Early Girl” tomato plants yielded buckets of tomatoes every week. Suddenly we were faced with a question that was never a problem before: what to […]