I’ll begin today by explaining that we’ve been eating a lot of the Same Old, Same Old for dinner around here lately. From what I can figure, any and all brain power that was formerly used for coming up with something new and creative for dinner (or the blog) seems to have been temporarily diverted … Read more
Some of us (who shall go unnamed) have been feeling a lot like this for the past week or so. (He’s pretending he’s a pregnant woman.) This means that meals around here have been a bit lackluster lately. I’ve been letting Barbie’s Sharpie outfits steal the show. I just realized that I post quite a … Read more
Birds of a Feather. In Iowa. Eating Black Bean Brownies.
February 4th, 2012 | Posted by in Short or Sweet - (11 Comments)I have just returned from Iowa! Did ya miss me? Did ya happen to see a 5 month pregnant woman running through the Atlanta airport last night in an effort to catch her connecting flight back to New York on time? If you did, let’s just pretend that wasn’t me. No, instead let’s chat about … Read more
I get these “Your Pregnancy This Week” emails that list a myriad of facts and tidbits about the wee babe growing inside my uterus, along with any other timely pregnancy notes. You know, like “you’re probably busting out of your bra by now” or “your baby is the size of a tarantula”. Stuff like that. … Read more
Let’s say you laid down on the couch this afternoon, kids busy and frolicking to and fro, and you decide to close your eyes for “just a minute”. Then let’s say you woke up some unknown amount of time later, living room dark, kids off entertaining themselves some place else, and suddenly you realize you’ve … Read more
I’m on reprieve from my usual cooking, cleaning and other domestic duties for a bit here thanks to an early Christmas gift for the girls. We’re in Toronto! Me, two girlies, one fetus and one Granny Weeds. We had to leave Dad at home to go to that pesky thing called work. Don’t feel too … Read more
Today, I had a plan. That plan was to make dinner early, so that when we got home from an outing with friends late this afternoon, dinner would be mostly ready. All that would be left to do would be to make some guac to top it all off. And that plan worked. For the … Read more
It’s Saturday. And at the moment, I am home alone. The kids are out, the husband is out, I am in. With the house cleared out, I opted for a few of my favorite things. I tested out my knee with a short run (3 pain free miles + 1 naggy mile) on a cool, … Read more
Have you ever found yourself eating a grilled hummus and coleslaw sandwich for lunch and wondered how on earth such a concoction happened to land on your plate? Oh right, I think it started because I was making soup. Soup that began with potatoes. And then some beans were added too. And then Bean and … Read more
When I bought my bag of flax seed over the weekend, I snagged a bag of another now-infamous pseudo-grain/seed –> oh, Quinoa – it’s been a while! And with quinoa in my cupboard, suddenly I had quinoa stuffed peppers on the brain. That meant digging through the blog archives to remind myself how I made … Read more





