I did a decent amount of prep this weekend but nothing like last weekend.  I have found that if I go big once every month or so, the rest of the weekends don’t have to be as intense.  The whole chicken from last weekend lasted me all week – mainly in lunches for the kids and Kyle.  This weekend I made chili.  The kids (and Kyle) loved the black bean quinoa chili I made before so I basically made the same thing again.  This time I swapped in Lightlife vegan gimme lean ‘ground beef’ for the… Read more >

Back to school night! This is the real deal sign that we have graduated from the baby years…long gone are the conversations about teething and growth spurts.  We are solidly living the life of juggling different kids’ events and activities. They ate a different meal from us because I fed them early (at 5:30) and knew they needed something more substantial than kale to hold them over until breakfast at 7:30.  They came to back to school night and played with the other kids in one corner of the kinder room while we learned all… Read more >

Ever since I had the roasted tomatoes at the Full Belly farm dinner I have wanted to make something similar.  It felt silly to buy tomatoes when we have them coming out of the garden at a crazy rate, but the problem was, we kept eating them in meals so there weren’t quite enough to roast in a big dish.  I really wanted to almost poach them in olive oil until they reduced into a sweet gooey mess of tomato jam… So I finally found the moment this Sunday. The oven was already on for… Read more >

Kyle was gone over the long weekend so I had dessert every night.  Because chocolate is my security blanket. That yellow coated almond was a lemon creme almond that the Nugget employee made me try (I was chatting him up while getting my bulk bin discount on and he said they were a hidden gem of an item).  It was so good!  Like a lemon cream pie kind of thing?  Not that I’ve tasted lemon cream pie…is it different than lemon meringue pie?  Because I used to LOVE lemon meringue pie, but haven’t had it… Read more >