full tummies

I've done basic menu rotations for YEARS. They free me up both to think creatively within boundaries and to plan my grocery runs for ...

While I love to try out new recipes, sometimes we just stick to the tried-and-true around here. So, here are some of our favorite full tummi...

Best laid plans and all that aside... I can't even follow my OWN menus for more than a day or two.... No wonder I have issues with an o...

Boy, these years when Thanksgiving's on the early side, it really creeps up quickly! In fact, it's the earliest it can be this year....

This is not actually our menu this week, but since pork loin is on sale this week at Kroger for my preferred price ($1.99/pound), I thought ...

Ever wonder what the full tummies family eats when there's a birthday in the house, and we're hosting lots of company? My daughter ...

The last year or so, I've planned a basic weekly meal schedule that has helped simplify each week's planning while still giving me s...

The kids and I were out of town last week, so when we got home on Sunday, we had a mountain of CSA produce to eat up...by this Thursday! A n...

Last week , I said we were going to eat stir fry on Saturday night; we didn't. We ate one of our favorite "throw together" mea...

Since our lives are rather unpredictable, and I don't know what I'm getting in our CSA box week to week, it's easier for me to s...

I know my regular subscribers are just dying to know what we did with the chard, bok choy, and other stuff from last week , aren't you...

OK, enough Fiddler on the Roof for now (although I never get tired of that musical). I had a little routine going this past school tear f...

Happy Birthday to me! So, this week's menu starts with leftovers so I don't have to cook (and I got to go out to dinner last night, ...

For some strange reason, my kids are not huge fans of the Thanksgiving feast (sigh). Instead of serving up the same food for supper that t...

This year, we're keeping our Thanksgiving pretty simple. It's been a hard, crazy semester with lots of travel, lots of school work (...

We have two more weeks of our CSA adventure after today. It's been a good run! Here's what we took home today: a million yellow t...

Our second CSA haul from the Colvins is in! We've got some stuff leftover from last week since the hubs was on a business trip for a fe...

We skipped a week and a friend picked up a week, so our CSA share this week was quite welcome! (And the rain that filled the farm's irr...

We'll be out of town this week from Wednesday evening on....so our menu is scanty. Thankfully, the produce we received from our CSA this...

How did we get to mid-August so quickly?! I'll now be packing a kindergartner's large snack/small lunch 3x a week, too, so for my ow...