Well, we made it. It’s the last day of The Greener March Challenge. Whether you ate greens every day for the last 31 days or not, you endured my month long green stream of posts. I’m not sure if I should say “Congrats!” or “I’m sorry.” There were certainly a few highlights for me for …
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It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was just a cold and gloomy Friday morning. And I was in the mood to cook. I was also in the mood to shake things up! I went googling my way around the world wide web in search of something outlandish to do with a bag …
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Two days a week, the girls go off to class for three hours in the afternoon. That means two days a week, I have three hours to myself. Sometimes I stay and help out in class, sometimes I run errands, sometimes I do housework, sometimes I work on a blog post. Sometimes I eat leftover …
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Me: Good morning everybody! Condiments: Hi Alison! Me: Who wants to be turned into dinner tonight?! Condiments: [cheers] Crock Pot enters stage left Me: What about you, Crock Pot? You wanna play too? Crock Pot: Yeah, sure. I guess so. Me: [ignoring Crock Pot's unenthusiastic response] OK, then – listen up. Today is a full …
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A great way beat the leftover blues is to create something new and different with your uneaten foodstuffs from a previous meal. Thanks to a big scoop of rolled oats, lentil tacos from Sunday were turned into lentil burgers last night. With oats stirred in to the last of the lentil taco filling and then …
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If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Make Lentils
June 27th, 2011 | Posted by in Dinner Time - (4 Comments)On any given day, I cannot tell you what I’m making for dinner that night until the five o’clock hour is upon me. I have tried and tried to become proficient at meal planning, but it appears I am simply unable to make this learned skill a personal reality. I suppose I could work on …
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Asparagus is not yet in season here in upstate NY, but we’ve been eating it recently despite this small fact because I think I’ve been brainwashed into doing so. The stores always seem to jump the gun with the holiday decorations and seasonal merchandise – shelves currently loaded with pastel candy and green beaded necklaces …
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Spicy Red Lentil Chili and CSA’s: Totally Related
February 19th, 2011 | Posted by in Healthy Habits - (8 Comments)CSA = Community Supported Agriculture. (Not “Can’t Stand Alison”, thankyouverymuch.) If this acronym is new to you, in short – a CSA is an opportunity for you, the consumer, to get your produce direct from a local farmer. Find a farm that offers CSA memberships and you can buy a share of their crops for …
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Problems. We’ve all got them. Big problems. Stupid Problems. Finger problems that we can’t seem to stop writing about. When I was a kid, unloading the dishwasher was one of my chores. Like most kids, I would have to be reminded and mom would say “I can’t make dinner until the kitchen is clean. I …
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Where’s the place to be on a cold, dreary day? The beach of course! We met up with our “Get These Kids Outside Or Bust” homeschooling group and today was a true test of our pledge to get outside even in the crummiest of weather. It was cold. It was rainy. There was whining. Ava …
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