Archive for the 'produce' Category
Okra. A Reminder.
December 15th, 2010This is not really a post about okra (though I do have a simple recipe below) but a reminder that when kids are involved in your meals, they should be involved in your meal planning. My husband and I know this, of course, and we do involve them to a certain extent — we ask [...]
Coconut Kale, Simplified
December 10th, 2010by Caroline As I’ve probably mentioned before, my mom is an excellent clipping service, regularly sending me articles and recipes from the New York Times. Sometimes she makes the recipes first herself but more often, since she is cooking for two and I am cooking for four, she sends it to me to test and [...]
Eli’s Elegant Broccoli
November 12th, 2010by Caroline I won’t claim to take as much time with presentation as Lisa does, but Eli is either paying more attention than I thought to my small efforts or he is simply reading this blog. The recipe he invented yesterday (with production assistance from Tony) shows he’s as careful with style as substance. The [...]
Yeasted Pumpkin Bread
October 29th, 2010by Caroline It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of quick breads. Especially during the school year, rarely a week goes by that I’m not turning our extra bananas/apples/pears/pumpkin/summer squash into a batch of muffins or a loaf of bread for snack. But this recipe by Stephanie Rosenbaum for a yeasted pumpkin bread caught [...]
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 [...]
Roasted Cauliflower with Olives & Capers
October 27th, 2010by Caroline The deeper the Giants play into the post-season, the more excited my family gets. I stuck to my promise to make caramel corn for the pennant games, and this weekend (despite the approaching candy-bonanza of Halloween) I will make It’s-Its to cheer on our World Series chances. But a family has to eat [...]
Pumpkin Toast
October 19th, 2010by Lisa Our children’s school has a great tradition of hosting a social for the parents (only!) of each grade in the early months of the year. Some of Ella’s third grade class has been together since pre-school & it’s a terrific group of parents and children. This year, our enterprising room parents decided on [...]
Salad for Lunch
October 1st, 2010by Caroline One of my favorite things, among the many small things that I love about my kids being in school until 2 PM, is that I have time now to make and eat lunch at home. Last year, when my youngest was in preschool, I left the house at 11:30 AM to pick him [...]
Hayes Valley Farm
September 22nd, 2010by Caroline A lifetime ago, pre-husband and pre-kids, I lived in the not-yet-gentrified Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. My top floor apartment looked out over a vacant lot which had once been shadowed by the 101 freeway off-ramp, but after the Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the road, the ramp was torn down and the [...]
Puffy Corn Omelete
September 15th, 2010by Lisa A few weeks ago, Ella bit into her corn on the cob, and before she had even set it back down on her plate declared, “I love summer.” Like most, we love corn here and eat it as often as we can while it’s in season. Purist that I am, we usually don’t [...]