April 15-21 Here’s the upcoming week’s menu. Thematically I’ve decided that Monday is a good pasta day. I don’t intend to follow this as a rule, but more of a casual guideline. Monday is often when we go pick up our order from Bailey’s so having an easy one-dish meal like pasta is helpful. And...
Read more →At the beginning of the week I was planning on making the Formosan Fried Cabbage from More with Less but decided I wanted a little bit more “going on” with the recipe. My search for “cabbage and sausage” brought me to Canadian Living’s Braised Cabbage with Apples and Sausage. Then I searched for “braised cabbage” and wound up at...
Read more →Things here in Kitchener/Waterloo are just starting to warm up. Yesterday was one of the first truly no-glove days for the boys and I. It was great! We walked downtown (yes, we live in a place where life can be loved mostly without a car!), met Madame at her work around lunch hour, ran...
Read more →April 8-14 There are a couple items on this menu that were from last week that we didn’t get to so we’re having them this week. Tuesday should be fun since that is dinner and a movie at the YMCA Early Years Centre (EYC) of Waterloo. The event is a fundraiser for their summer...
Read more →Last month after our big chicken meal (in which we cooked a whole chicken and actually ate very little of it) the chicken was broken down into its respective parts and has since made its way into several more meals. (Following that original chicken dinner the bony parts spent the night in the slow-cooker...
Read more →We were out of town on Monday and Tuesday and I completely forgot that I was going to try to post my weekly menu… on a weekly basis! Anyways, we didn’t forget to make a menu plan for this week, I just didn’t share it. Every week we tend to focus on one cookbook,...
Read more →In the winter I tend to have a hard time coming up with pasta ideas that are meatless. I find that when I make pasta sauce using only canned vegetables or winter vegetables I really crave meat. However, as a family we limit our meat-based meals to an average of one per week. Well,...
Read more →We celebrated our real Easter meal with family Saturday evening and it was a big production featuring Mediterranean foods. It was a feast – and much of the afternoon was spent in the kitchen and around the grill. It featured hummus, Tzatziki, walnut dip, tabouleh, Greek salad, chickpea-cucumber salad, whole wheat pita bread, feta,...
Read more →I always feel a bit embarrassed referring to a meal as “Indian Night” because I know I am unqualified to cook it. I brought over a few of my parathas to my neighbors to try and felt like I needed to put air quotes around “Indian” when I told them that’s what we were...
Read more →Cold Frame Hoop House! I spent Sunday afternoon building a “cold frame hoop house.” The weather was mild (around freezing) and the work was mostly easy. I’m happy with the results and hopefully my seedlings will be too when they head outside in a few weeks. I’m hoping that the structure will help warm...
Read more →My wife and I have been menu planning ever since we had our first child which was just over three years ago! We started keeping track of the plans last summer. This winter after our move North I had time to make the plans a bit more detailed which is what prompted me to...
Read more →I planted my seeds on March 13. By the weekend some of the lettuce had sprouted and now pretty much everything has sprouted. I’m just waiting on the peppers.
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