When my children were toddlers, I often prepared parts of our dinner meal while we were eating lunch. This made getting the final product on the table that much easier during the early evening hours. When I received a copy of Jane Doiron’s Make Ahead Meals for Busy Moms, I was reminded of my former…
Category Archives: Food and Drink
Family Feasts on $75 a Week
This book title sums it up well. Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A Penny-wise Mom Shares Her Recipe for Cutting Hundreds from Your Monthly Food Bill is not just a book of cost-cutting methods (in fact, she doesn’t even use coupons!). In aiding the reader to save on her monthly “food bill,” Mary Ostyn…
Vegan Lunch Box Around the World
From the author of Vegan Lunch Box comes a new edition in the series. In Vegan Lunch Box Around the Worldshe offers you vegan recipes that allow and encourage you to travel the globe. Sampling from Russia, Israel, Asia and Japan, she gives you a wide variety of tasty things to try. Yes, even though…
Cooking with Carrie
No, it’s not a new movie or a new book. It’s just me and I’m in my own, private kitchen that isn’t all THAT exciting (although it is a nice kitchen). I’m here to talk about food. Mostly, I’m here to talk about things you can do with food to further expand that waistline of…
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
I grew up in a meat and potatoes household, a virtual stranger to ethnic foods of all kinds. We moved to Texas when I was eighth grade and, as far as I can remember, my first taste of Mexican food was nachos my mom made with boxed chips and squares of Velveeta Cheese. Bless her…
Hungry Monkey
Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater by Matthew Amster-Burton is many things — entertaining, mouth-watering, quirky, a bit self-important (as I’m convinced all memoirs are) — but advice for parents? Not so much. Amster-Burton is a foodie. He’s not just a foodie, he’s a professional food writer/restaurant reviewer. He’s the…
The Unhealthy Truth
I was intrigued when I heard of the book The Unhealthy Truth. The premise was interesting, plus I live in Oregon where eating “green” is the rule, not the exception. I married into a vegetarian family (my mother-in-law was vegan) and when I first moved to the state (from Texas – where good food is…
Don’t Panic — More Dinner’s in the Freezer
I enjoy cooking, but most of the time, life is so busy that I don’t really have a chance to enjoy it. I am often wondering, “What can I fix as quickly and easily as possible?” Most often, I am asking this question a few hours before needing to feed my hungry crew. In the…
Sam Stern’s Get Cooking
Sam Stern is a teenage chef from the United Kingdom. Get Cooking is his third cookbook. He writes as a teen as opposed to an uptight classicly trained chef, but the cookbook contains some interesting recipes like homemade crackers, homemade cream cheese alongside traditionals such as tomato soup and mac n’ cheese. This might seem…
Babycakes
What parent doesn’t want the best for their children? From the day our little kidlets are born, we’re looking out for their best interests from food, to education, to playmates and influence. We also love to give them yummy treats on special occasions. Frequently we like making special occasions out of ordinary days. We love…
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