Archive for the 'family dinner' Category
Something Slow, Something New
February 1st, 2012By Lisa I’ve come to learn the hard way that it’s not a good idea to introduce new food on a weeknight, especially not after a long afternoon on the soccer field. When the kids sit down to eat at 6:40 (if we’re lucky) on Monday nights, it’s cold, it’s dark, they’re covered in turf [...]
Full Stop: Slow Cooker Red Sauce
January 25th, 2012By Lisa One of my resolutions this year is to do only One Thing At A Time. This is very, very hard for me. Somedays, when I have 12 things on my to-do list, including writing, teaching, errands, chores–it’s physically painful not to do that one extra thing. The commitment has meant, among other things, [...]
More Adventures in Slow Cooking: Swedish Meatballs
January 19th, 2012by Lisa Tuesday night I have a plan: Swedish Meatballs. I take the pork and beef out of the freezer just fine. Wednesday morning: I realize I have no onion, no potatoes. Kids say they will boycott Swedish meatballs if mashed potatoes aren’t involved. I have no plan B. Resolve to go to store. Later [...]
Pasta Factory
January 10th, 2012By Lisa Some people eat long noodles, other families eat blackeyed peas, but we have a pasta-making tradition on New Years Day. Actually, the tradition has been that I make the pasta and everyone else eats it. Mostly, I don’t mind. Mostly, I love making pasta the way other people love meditating, or running, [...]
Horseradish Cheddar Fondue
January 5th, 2012By Lisa If you ask my kids, they will tell you their favorite restaurant is the Melting Pot, a chain of fondue restaurants. Everything I wrote almost exactly one year ago remains true. Yet in spite of the price, we have eaten there three times this year. We didn’t anticipate that our promise to celebrate [...]
Bucatini with pork and fennel ragu
November 8th, 2011by Lisa One thing Caroline & I are discovering as we are doing the final pass on the edits for our book, is just how important mothers are when it comes to the food we eat as children. It seems there is a mother, somewhere, for better and for worse, at heart of all the [...]
The clothes made the food
October 18th, 2011By Lisa Last night, we came home from Ella’s soccer practice at about 5:15 pm, and I set to preparing dinner. Ella and I had about 45 minutes before Finn and his dad returned from their soccer practice. Plenty of time for me to get dinner done and Ella to finish her homework and shower [...]
Pumpkin Coconut Milk Curry
October 5th, 2011by Caroline My parents are visiting this week (on the California leg of my Dad’s book tour) — and that means I am experimenting with recipes I wouldn’t make for just the four of us. My parents (unlike my children) are eager and adventurous eaters, and while the food here ultimately matters less to them, [...]
Learning to Eat Ceviche
September 27th, 2011By Lisa On Friday evening, we were on our way for tacos, when all hell broke loose in the car. It was 5:30 pm. My 7-year-old son had just finished an intense 90-minute soccer practice. During this time his sister had been kicking the ball around with a few teammates. It was the end of [...]
Variation on a Theme: End of Summer Pan Fried Gnocchi
September 15th, 2011by Lisa In some ways, the food blogging/writing world misleads us. If you believe everything you read, people out there are cooking new, interesting, fresh, inspired things all the time. On the one hand, this can inspire you and give you lots of new ideas, recipes, ingredients. The blogging world is great for that. On [...]