Archive for the 'fast food' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes a hot dog would be so much easier
August 18th, 2011by Caroline We were not having a very good food day. Hotel breakfast (comped because we’d been woken at dawn by construction noise the day before) was a cold buffet of cereals, pastries, and steam table eggs (also fairly cold). We’d been warned off eating at the American Museum of Natural History’s food court, but [...]
Pumpkin & Black Bean Tacos
October 28th, 2010by Lisa It may be almost Halloween, but we have other important things to think about these days, too. This very quick game night meal was inspired by Caroline’s Giant Enchildas and these pumpkin tacos from Sunset Magazine–which sound terrific to me, but I just didn’t have all the ingredients in my pantry. For this [...]
Egg-adilla
October 6th, 2010by Caroline I’ve been feeling a little badly about disparaging quesadillas the other day. I would not have survived my first year of motherhood without them, but that’s also what I was remembering when I called them an “uninspired” choice for lunch: those weary, can’t-make-it-out-of-the-bathrobe days of new motherhood, when a good lunch was anything [...]
It’s the Great Pumpkin Pancake, Charlie Brown
October 30th, 2009by Caroline Today after school we will finally carve all the pumpkins that have been sitting on our front stoop this month. I’ll save the seeds, to toast and eat during a post-dinner showing of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and then I’ll need a quick dinner that doesn’t add much to the general [...]
Summer in a Jar: Salsa Verde
October 19th, 2009by Caroline We’re almost past the time, here in California, when we can stock up on extra produce at the farmer’s market to store away for the winter. There are some tomatoes coming still, but I’ve got about as many as I can handle, cooked into sauce and tucked into the freezer, next to a [...]
One more post about ice cream
August 26th, 2009by Caroline It was a hot day. We’d been exploring the Storm King Art Center by foot and by tram; we had picnicked and sculpted and now it was time to refill our water bottles and drive home. We could see, near the water dispenser, a vending machine with ice creams. OK, we told the [...]
Summer Traditions: The Red Rooster
August 23rd, 2009by Caroline Thirty-seven years ago my family moved back from Japan to the States, to a town eighty miles away from my maternal grandparents, and a tradition was born. Because halfway between my grandparents’ house and the one in which I grew up, in Brewster, New York, stands The Red Rooster, a hamburger and ice [...]
The Expedient Picnic
July 14th, 2009by Caroline Eating with kids is often all about expediency, and so although it was difficult, in Oxford, to set aside my romantic, Evelyn Waugh-inspired visions of country picnics, I have been at this long enough to know that when the kids are hungry, they need to eat. Now. So we make or purchase nice [...]