Sometimes when life gets hectic, you need to be able to throw something together quickly for a speedy, satisfying dinner. One of my favourite things to have on hand is the 1 lb. containers of pasteurized crab meat available at Costco. It’s relatively inexpensive, especially compared to the stuff you get from the seafood display at [...]
Marion and her sister over at “She said, she said“ have been writing about nostalgic/comfort food such as tuna casserole and meat loaf. Well, that got me to hankering after meatloaf, so, what’s a gal to do but whip up a little “pain de viande” (everything sounds tres chic in French, doesn’t it?). I leapt in [...]
Me: I’m making dinner. Will you eat spinach if I put it in the main dish?
Him: NO! I hate spinach!
Me: Are you sure? Its fresh from the garden — just picked, and it’ll be cooked (he cant eat uncooked veg)
Him: Doesn’t matter! Spinach is disguisting!
…15 minutes elapse…
Him: (pointing to the main dish) What’s that?
Me: Spinach.
Him: How [...]
So not having dinner planned the other night, I ran across a whole chicken marked way down in price at the supermarket. I decided there and then that I would make a roast chicken for dinner. The usual problem with roast chicken? — you want to eat before 9:00 at night, but you want your chicken [...]
So after looking at the photo-diet project on Flickr, my curiousity was piqued. I’m not so interested in weighing and specifically portioning out everything I eat, but was interested to actually “see” everything I was eating. Anyhow, here’s three days worth.
Interesting? or silly?
here’s a video of Kimi looking like I’m crazy to [...]