Well, folks. We’ve entered the stage in quarantine where my fridge is basically a strange combination of the remains of Costco veggies, farm box scraps, and random bits and pieces of leftovers from meals past. …
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Meal Prep (and Fridge Clean-out) Magic: Ribollita
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Recipe: Crispy Rice Stir Fry
We went out for take-out at a local Thai restaurant one day last week when we were tired of cooking, and smartly ordered an extra order of brown sticky rice for the future. This brown …
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Recipe: Greeña Coladas
If you like Piña Coladas, then this smoothie is for you! It’s essentially a coconut and pineapple smoothie with some greens added. I go for spinach because that’s usually what I have on hand and …
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Making Bon Appetit’s Digestive Cookies
My parents lived in England for three years, and during our visits there for college and grad school breaks, we would partake in a sleeve of Digestive cookies as a delightful snack or as a …
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Burger Night with Home-Made Burger Buns!
We had quite the burger night on Sunday, complete with homemade hamburger buns, Tzatziki sauce, spicy pickle relish, oven fries, wedge salads, and of course, hamburger patties. We successfully found some ground beef after a …
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Recipe: Spicy Pickle Relish
This recipe was invented for our last burger night, and involved two things that we conveniently have in the fridge at all times – dill pickles and pickled jalapenos. This is a quick and easy …
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Recipe: Tomato Sauce from Scratch
In our preparation for the state of California to shut down, Chris and I went to Costco to stock up (okay, panic buy) on quite a few items to supply both of us on our …
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Recipe: Sunday French Toast
We made something this morning that I haven’t made since probably college (yes, I had a home-made French toast phase in college, didn’t you?). I had forgotten how simple it is to make French toast, …
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Recipe – Ramen Soup Broth
Two particular soup recipes have been catching my eye recently, Andy Baraghani’s I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Vegetarian-Ramen and Amiel Stanek’s French Onion Beef Noodle Soup (click the links to access both recipes – both from Bon Appetit of course!). …
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Stocking the Fridge with Healthy Work from Home Snacks – Week 1
Greetings from my home office (which is also my kitchen table)! It’s officially been my first day of working from home, and I’m already officially bored. So, naturally I started doing some meal prep/snack prep …
