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The weekly menu

More like menussssssssss.  Get ready for a lot lot lot of dinner ideas.  This post is especially good for quick meal ideas.  There are lots of things thrown together from freezer and pantry staples so hopefully it will be useful to busy peeps wanting (budget and allergy friendly) home-made dinners that don’t take much time to prepare. I roasted broccolini and potato wedges inside while Kyle grilled salmon outside.    P had the same meal.  Plus medjool dates.  This was also his first time “dipping” his potatoes in ketchup.  He saw Kyle doing it and wanted… Read more >

Dos fines de semana

I have two three (!) weeks of menus to catch up on so I’ll be short and concise with the details here, but I love our weekends and wanted to share the photos of the past couple.  We have finally been at home!  It feels so luxurious to not travel and have the downtime to do errands and hang out around town.  Sundays are sacred football days so we try to plan very little for those days – thereby leaving Saturdays for swimming lessons, farmer’s market, grocery shopping, vacuuming, park play dates and everything else.  Sometimes “nothing”… Read more >

Trying to do too much

In true Elise form, I’ve taken on wayyyyy too much and my perfectionist overachieving ways have made my life more miserable than had I just settled accepted where my limits are.  The simplest (and least important) example is the 4 drafts I have partially written in my blog’s dashboard.  I also have a baking/cooking to do list that’s obscenely unnecessary, for which I’ve purchased all the ingredients.  So now, as long as they sit there taunting me, I will feel like a failure until I deal with them.  “Deal with them” being the key part of that… Read more >

Pumpkin muffins & and allergy update

I have such good news! This past weekend was so awesome for a few different reasons and I’ve been on a high ever since.  Gah.  I needed this. I’ve been stuck in a rough patch for a couple of weeks.  I don’t know if you could detect it through my [infrequent] posts but I’m coming out of the fog now.  I haven’t felt super inspired to check in here on this space and so I just haven’t. But first, muffins! PUMPKIN muffins no less.  #basic fall move. Turns out this kid loves pumpkin (future food blogger?).  And… Read more >

Zucchini and Daiya drop biscuits

I had two things on my baking to-do list for the weekend and they were biscuits and zucchini something.  But then I got to thinking – maybe I could combine? So I looked up a few different recipes.  I used this one and this one and this one.   And then married them all together.  Here’s mine. “Cheddar” cheese and Zucchini Biscuits [gluten free, soy free, dairy free] Ingredients: 1/3 cup bacon fat (I’m pretty sure coconut oil, butter, Earth Balance, or any fat that’s solid when cold should work) 4 eggs 1 tbsp apple cider… Read more >