I did it! I spent (some of) the weekend getting really organized and meal planning and I prepped SO WELL that this week’s food was completely heavenly. It helped that I was super inspired by the recipes in these cookbooks. I got Run Fast Cook Fast East Slow from the library last week and have been obsessed from page one. OBSESSED. Maybe you are already aware of how stellar Shalene and Elyse’s cookbooks are, but I somehow missed the memo back when the first cookbook came out. I did it out of order though, because… Read more >

I just discovered this post from two weeks ago….that I obviously never published. Better late than never! I’ll pick up where I left off at the end. Aren’t these the cutest?? We brought them to farmer’s market last week to pass out to V’s friends as a VERY belated birthday celebration. It’s not in our nature to do big birthdays, so when she asked for pizza at farmer’s market for her birthday I said absolutely. We invited some buddies and called it a day. She was in heaven so that’s all that matters. We all… Read more >

I used to be so good at meal planning, but lately it seems like I’m so disorganized. I hate to blame it on the CSA, but when I really look at the timeline of when our (my) shopping habits went downhill, it kinda lines up. It makes sense, though, because I get a massive haul of veggies on Monday afternoons so I can’t do much in the way of meal planning on the weekend like I used to…and by Tuesday I’m knee deep in the week and so if and when I finally do get… Read more >

This meal was born out of sheer laziness. I had no meal plan and no motivation to go to the store. I put those creative juices to work andddd… Came up with a quinoa hippie bowl. It’s hard to tell what exactly I roasted, but there were a few kinds of carrots, sweet potatoes, rutabaga, and yukon gold potatoes. And then it all came together with a pistachio pine nut pesto. On the left, is the pesto the way I keep it in the freezer. On the right, is how it looks after I add… Read more >