Tag: meal plan

Meal plan: week of March 18, 2019

Meal plan: week of March 18, 2019

Spring has sprung in Seattle and my goodness it makes everything better. Sun, blue skies, the mountains popping, the flowers bursting. This morning, the kids and I walked all over our neighborhood, stopping for pretzel rolls at our favorite bakery and macarons at the farmer’s […]

Meal plan: week of March 11, 2019

Meal plan: week of March 11, 2019

Oh my goodness my sourdough starter has been killing it over the last couple of weeks. I’ve made a few tweaks to my approach, and she is turning out the most gorgeous and satisfyingly delicious bread that I’ve ever made. Look at these beauties. Also, […]

Meal plan: week of March 4, 2019

Meal plan: week of March 4, 2019

I have a rule, wherein I am not allowed to buy any cookbook until I have checked it out of the library and actually used it for a few weeks. If I find after a couple of weeks I’m happy to return it, I don’t […]

Meal plan: week of October 8, 2018

Meal plan: week of October 8, 2018

Well friends, I don’t have a lot of pithy thoughts to accompany this week’s meal plan. I had the weekend to myself, which was a treat, but I spent most of it rage-writing postcards to potential voters in Georgia in the hope that I could […]

Meal plan: week of September 10

Meal plan: week of September 10

The last few weeks have been a bit of a shambles at dinner time; just before 5pm – the time I really need to start cooking – I stand in the kitchen surfing the web, hoping that inspiration and a will to cook will strike […]

Meal plan: week of July 30

Meal plan: week of July 30

Well! Please accept my apologies for the unannounced hiatus. Life sometimes has a way of getting in the way, does it not? Turns out going on holiday for two weeks – and not being asked to cook a single meal while away – and then […]

Meal plan: week of june 18

Meal plan: week of june 18

Ok, so now it’s somehow properly summer. We had a little false alarm a few weeks back, but now it’s really here. We hit up the Fremont Solstice Parade this Saturday, which is quite a way to ring in the summer if you have never […]

Meal plan: week of June 11

Meal plan: week of June 11

We had a few friends over last week for dinner, which was very fun indeed, and it happened to be on Wednesday, a.k.a. the day I don’t actually have to cook dinner, so I was inspired to make dessert instead. Even though it feels like […]

Meal plan: week of June 4, 2018

Meal plan: week of June 4, 2018

What in the world, JUNE. How did that happen? This last week was a total blur of school functions; turns out, if I lose a productive Monday to sunshine and fun with the family, the rest of the week is kind of a shambles. House? Disaster. Refrigerator? […]