My Monday Menu Plan: Avocados
Our first week of summer vacation and so much to do! Camps and swim team and poolside BBQs. I feel like I am already behind, and summer is supposed to be relaxing. Ack. Avocado Our box from Two Small...
View ArticleClean Food Diet, Day Three: Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen
In California, eating organic and local is almost a birthright. Especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, which seems to be surrounded on all sides by farmers and ranchers eager to share their organic...
View ArticleMonday Menu Plan: Chicken Boobies
The ridiculous: this photo from our cooking class with Jonathan of Eat Right at Home and Mariquita Farms. The chicken has boobies. Snicker. Last week, Mariquita Farms dropped off a mystery box, so I am...
View ArticleFamily Dinner Plan: Week-old greens
Last week we had a big box of veggies from Mariquita Farms. Because of our crazy schedule last week, we still have a pretty big box of veggies from Mariquita Farms, but some of the greens are looking...
View ArticlePerfect Fried Egg (recipe)
Sometimes, when the CSA delivery brings a great bunch of braising greens (baby beet tops are my favorite) along with a red onion or two, I like to saute the vegetables and serve with a fried egg over...
View ArticleFamily Dinner Plan: Is Fall here already?
Fall begins, I guess. The air smells different, a little crisper. And the shadows seem a little longer, but as Andy, our Mariquita Farms farmer pointed out, the first official day of fall is not until...
View ArticleFamily Dinner Plan: Summer bounty
Our weekly CSA boxes from Fifth Crow Farms have been filled with gorgeous produce! This week we found lettuces, cabbage, rainbow chard, yellow beets, spinach, zucchini squash, parsley, basil with...
View ArticleFamily Dinner Plan: Vegan challenge
The Big Guy loves to run and out of the blue has decided he is curious about vegan diets. You know me, I love a challenge, so I agreed to devote three days this week to a vegan diet. We have brought...
View ArticleFamily Dinner Plan: Coaching soccer
In addition to lots of other activities, I also coach youth soccer. I have been doing this on and off for about 10 years, and each year I think I might be ready to move on and then I decide to pick up...
View ArticleMy CSA Box: Easy-prep menu plan
Our vegetable box from Fifth Crow Farms is definitely moving towards fall with Purple potatoes, Green Zebra tomatoes, Baby kale mix, Poblano peppers, Strawberries, Yellow onions, Green beans, Fennel,...
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