being not doing

I was a little bit creativity-challenged for the Week 6 dinner for the Dark Days Challenge, so I made a frittata. I used the mixed kale from this week’s CSA delivery, my favorite local pastured eggs, garlic from the store, dried mushroom salt from last winter’s CSA, and shallots from our summer CSA that are [...]

One of my favorite types of meals is the one-bowl meal. Dal and rice, curry and rice, chili over baked potato: anything that can be served up as a nice hearty meal in a single bowl will do me just fine. One of our favorites is the Moroccan-style stew from Simply In Season; while we [...]

Christmas dinner: the table. Christmas dinner: roasted chicken. Christmas dinner: roasted sweet potatoes and squash, apple, and cranberry bake. Christmas dinner: cornbread sausage stuffing. Christmas dinner. The meal for Week 4 of the Dark Days Challenge was surprisingly easy to come up with: it was our planned Christmas dinner. Because there were only three adults [...]

My Week 3 meal for the Dark Days Challenge was a bit of a surprise: we ate one of the Christmas tourtières for my birthday! Never fear, there is a whole pie in the freezer for Christmas Eve, which will be more than enough for three people. I always planned to make the pies this [...]

For Week 2 of the Dark Days Challenge, I decided to make beef stew. This was a big step for a former vegetarian of 15 years: I had never before cooked beef of any kind, nor allowed it to be cooked in my house or my pans. It was really the last frontier meat-wise, as [...]