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Learning To Eat » Archivio » Dinner in 20 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:37:44 +0000

[...] written before about how eggs are your friends and how simple is very often best, and about how in many ways, cooking for my young family very [...]

By: Wider

Wider — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:51:06 +0000

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Manuela

By: Mcelyea

Mcelyea — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:28:51 +0000

A fantastic post! Interesting read. Going to follow this blog closely in the future. Looking forward to the next update!

Regards

Andre

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:10:16 +0000

These are great ideas — good for me to know because my fiance gets migraines alot.
Where was your brother-in-law a Aramco brat? Do you know when and which compoud?

By: caroline

caroline — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:34:18 +0000

Our go-to dinners when things get tough are:
1) Breakfast for dinner. Nothing wrong with a bowl of cereal (better yet, oatmeal) with milk and some fruit on the side; or eggs, or french toast (which is basically eggs with toast anyway).
2) Quesadillas, which are always easy to fortify if you’ve got a can of beans in the pantry.
3) Pasta & peas. It’s easy to find good quality frozen peas, and if you toss them in with the pasta just as it finishes cooking, the peas will be perfectly cooked in the time it takes to drain & serve. If you do this with orzo and stir in lots of freshly grated cheese, you can almost dream you’re eating risotto. This works nicely with edamame, too, which you can get frozen & shelled at TJ’s (it just needs to cook a minute or two with the pasta).

By: Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer Johnson — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:09:12 +0000

who doesn’t struggle with this! I’m emailing this to a bunch of people I know who need quick ideas in a pinch and some who need them on a daily basis. Great ideas across the board. I love cooking that can be done “from the pantry” and with whatever produce you have around. Thank you for sharing.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:54:19 +0000

Serve homework with cookies when things get bad.

By: Marci

Marci — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:37:27 +0000

Lisa-you are a mindreader! I’m printing this, taping to the refer..any special homework hints?? this should go in the blue envelope!

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:57:38 +0000

Thanks, Alicia! THat’s a lot of cooking for you & Michael. Maybe you could plan & he could cook! Also, I meant to emphazize that a crucial part of all this is finding those meals that the kids love, too. (Or that you train them to love!)

By: Alicia Viviani

Alicia Viviani — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:46:16 +0000

Lisa, this is great. So much good information and great ideas. I will definitely use these suggestions. Every other week, we are cooking for six and all the kids have crazy schedules so planning and preparation are critical…if we don’t, we land up calling for pizza too many nights. Again, thanks for putting this all together and sending this.