[bring to a boil]

Nov
1st

Sun

Dinner in 15 minutes: Broiled Shrimp over Baby Greens

[extra virgin, lemon, paprika, salt & pepper]

Roasted Red Pepper and Eggplant Spread

Wilted Greens Salad

Butternut Squash Soup

Moroccan Spiced Halibut w/ Lemon Quinoa

Pancakes w/ Whipped Cream, Rose Syrup

Rainy October Evening Menu

Oct
15th

Thu

Rainy October Evening Menu

Roasted Red Pepper and Eggplant Spread with Parmesan Crisps

Butternut Squash Soup

Wilted Salad with Apple, Red Onion, Walnuts, and Goat Cheese

Moroccan Spiced Halibut over Lemon Quinoa

Pancakes with Whipped Cream, Rose Syrup, and Fresh Berries

Oct
1st

Thu

So I made nine two-serving pizzas today. Most are destined to be frozen. I’ll have and quick, cheap dinner for two and I’ll learn how all these different veggies and cheeses freeze.

What would you like on yours?

Today's Day Off Challenge: Homemade Frozen Pizzas

Result to follow.

Sep
26th

Sat

These hearths provide clear evidence that Neanderthals could control fire, and fragments within the ashes provide circumstantial evidence that they could perform radical transformation on their food, a transformation that Claude Levi-Strauss regarded as one of the principal features that marked out humanity as something distinct and separate from the natural world. They could cook.

— Martin Jones, Feast: Why Humans Share Food, 2007.

Sep
23rd

Wed

Orange Honey glazed Chicken Quesadilla

Sep
15th

Tue

We need to stop flattering nutritionally worthless foodlike substances by calling them “junk food” - and instead make clear that such products are not in fact food of any kind.

— Michael Pollan, “Farmer in Chief,” The New York Times, 2008.