Archive for the 'Lisa' Category
5-Spice Pan Grilled Steak
October 25th, 2011By Lisa It’s still hot in these parts, and last night, I was going to make your standard, California grilled steak, but when I opened the pantry yesterday morning to start the marinade I found I had neither enough balsamic vinegar nor any ginger. I quickly recalibrated. I had rice, which had the advantage of [...]
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 [...]
The Breakfast Score
October 13th, 2011By Lisa If it didn’t make the kids happy, you’d call it a rut because they’ve been eating the same thing for breakfast nearly 5 days a week since August. It’s true, that on weekends we mix it up with pancakes, and there’s french toast, or oatmeal, or granola thrown in on occasion, but for [...]
Eating for Beginners: 2nd Chance Book Giveaway
October 6th, 2011By Lisa Like a lot of new parents, Melanie Rehak wanted to know more about the food she was cooking and serving her son. Unlike a lot of new parents, she went to work in the kitchen of applewood, an restaurant committed to local food, community, and fostering creativity among their staff–for a full year. [...]
Fall Food
October 4th, 2011By Lisa And just like that, summer is over. We knew it was coming, but that definitive moment, when you look at a tomato and think, I’ve had enough had not yet come. But it always comes. At the height of summer, I think I can never get enough tomatoes, and then one day, I [...]
Goodbye to all that
September 29th, 2011By Lisa not much more al fresco dining Even though the temperatures here are still summerlike, and our markets are still full of piles of plums, rainbow swaths of tomatoes, giant bouquets of cilantro and basil, I am facing the end of summer and all that comes with it. This weekend, I will slow roast [...]
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 [...]
Ella’s Grilled Salmon Back Sandwich
September 22nd, 2011By Lisa Salmon Backs are a seasonal favorite around here. If salmon is in season, we’re sure to eat this cut of the fish nearly once a week. It’s fast, flavorful, and really economical. I can’t afford to keep my family in salmon filets or steaks, but I can afford to feed them piles of [...]
Melon Soup
September 20th, 2011By Lisa Over the weekend I went on a juicing binge brought on by an unexpected CSA delivery, which brought us an extra melon,which brought our household total to 3 ripe melons. Usually its no chore to eat one in a day, but all three of these beauties weren’t going to wait. So I brought [...]
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 [...]