Keeping dinner simple tonight, it's been a busy day of errands and oil changes - both cars are in good repair! I am very happy and thankful to hear that news. While that makes me want to celebrate and I am very much in the mood to go out for dinner, I already have dinner planned (thank goodness or we would be headed out for some over-priced meal that makes us feel bloated and fat).
The plan looks like this:
Breaded and baked tilapia
Roasted kale with sea salt
Parmesan couscous
We don't have dessert every night, but we still have some apple pie leftover so we will heat that up and have it while we catch up on two TV shows we missed while I was at class the other night.
What are you having tonight?
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
A New Adventure Begins
I just signed up for our summer CSA and I am so excited! This will be our second year receiving produce from our farmer. Last year we participated in a summer and a fall share and had a great experience.
For those who don't know, CSA is an acronym for Community Supported Agriculture or as a friend of ours put it "adopt a farmer". We pay in advance for a share (about 3/4 a bushel) of weekly fresh produce and the farmer uses that to support the season. Then I hope and pray for good weather because obviously he can only deliver the produce if it grows! Once a week I drive to an arranged meeting point and pick up my box of fresh vegetables.
When we began this adventure a year ago I was most excited to be receiving local, organic produce. Now though, I am just as excited about the variety that awaits me every week, with a CSA you just never quite know what's coming. We are fortunate, our farmer provides a list of the upcoming foods a few days prior to a pick up day so allow time to plan and shop accordingly.
I started off last summer just reading through the list, enjoying the variety and marveling at the variety of foods I'd never heard of, but by the end of the summer I realized that I needed to have a plan! Fortunately, the only thing we did not use last summer was a bulb of fennel (I had no idea what it was!!), but I still feel kind of bad about that. I can proudly say that I am armed with multiple fennel recipes this year and eagerly awaiting my bulb of fennel!
Do you participate in a CSA? What vegetable caused you the most difficulty the first time around?
For those who don't know, CSA is an acronym for Community Supported Agriculture or as a friend of ours put it "adopt a farmer". We pay in advance for a share (about 3/4 a bushel) of weekly fresh produce and the farmer uses that to support the season. Then I hope and pray for good weather because obviously he can only deliver the produce if it grows! Once a week I drive to an arranged meeting point and pick up my box of fresh vegetables.
When we began this adventure a year ago I was most excited to be receiving local, organic produce. Now though, I am just as excited about the variety that awaits me every week, with a CSA you just never quite know what's coming. We are fortunate, our farmer provides a list of the upcoming foods a few days prior to a pick up day so allow time to plan and shop accordingly.
I started off last summer just reading through the list, enjoying the variety and marveling at the variety of foods I'd never heard of, but by the end of the summer I realized that I needed to have a plan! Fortunately, the only thing we did not use last summer was a bulb of fennel (I had no idea what it was!!), but I still feel kind of bad about that. I can proudly say that I am armed with multiple fennel recipes this year and eagerly awaiting my bulb of fennel!
Do you participate in a CSA? What vegetable caused you the most difficulty the first time around?
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
You mean you cook dinner every night?!
In response to that question, "Yup, pretty much."
Now, don't get wrong, it is not always fancy and it's not always a brand new meal, but more or less, the meal is created at home by myself or my husband.
At this point you might ask, How you do have time for that if you both work full-time? And my response would be something along the lines of, "I've never considered it an option." (If I am being really honest, I will tell you that I am a big fan of leftovers, once a month cooking, and that having summers off doesn't hurt either!)
And with that I begin to wonder how you don't cook every night! With those thoughts and comments in mind, I decided to start a blog about what we cook, why we choose to eat at home, and what we do to make it work.
I am on spring break right now and while that might sound very relaxing to many, it just signals a long to-do list in my mind. I get a lot done when I have a random day off from work! Part of today's tasks were to bake whole wheat rolls, blueberry muffins and scones. After discovering that I did not have any half and half I scratched the scone idea and decided to instead bake an apple pie I made in October and froze. Upon completion of those tasks I turned my attention to dinner.
Tonight's dinner looked like this:
Salmon filets seasoned with thyme and pepper poached on top a bed of sliced cabbage served with whole wheat buns and butter. Start to finish (rolls excluded) this meal took about 15 minutes to prepare because I had set the filets out in the fridge last night and they were thawed by the time I started dinner. Of course the apple pie was dessert!
Now, don't get wrong, it is not always fancy and it's not always a brand new meal, but more or less, the meal is created at home by myself or my husband.
At this point you might ask, How you do have time for that if you both work full-time? And my response would be something along the lines of, "I've never considered it an option." (If I am being really honest, I will tell you that I am a big fan of leftovers, once a month cooking, and that having summers off doesn't hurt either!)
And with that I begin to wonder how you don't cook every night! With those thoughts and comments in mind, I decided to start a blog about what we cook, why we choose to eat at home, and what we do to make it work.
I am on spring break right now and while that might sound very relaxing to many, it just signals a long to-do list in my mind. I get a lot done when I have a random day off from work! Part of today's tasks were to bake whole wheat rolls, blueberry muffins and scones. After discovering that I did not have any half and half I scratched the scone idea and decided to instead bake an apple pie I made in October and froze. Upon completion of those tasks I turned my attention to dinner.
Tonight's dinner looked like this:
Salmon filets seasoned with thyme and pepper poached on top a bed of sliced cabbage served with whole wheat buns and butter. Start to finish (rolls excluded) this meal took about 15 minutes to prepare because I had set the filets out in the fridge last night and they were thawed by the time I started dinner. Of course the apple pie was dessert!
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