Last week Dave and I discovered a weird problem: we need to eat more calories, or at least change their distribution throughout the day. Both of us had a day where we had a green salad for lunch that was delicious, but since we both run either before work or during lunch we were both […]
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Panzanella: A Healthy, Veggie, Seasonal Dinner
A panzanella is an Italian bread and tomato salad, but the recipe we found in a Tastes of Home magazine earlier this year added cannelini beans and artichokes and turned it into a full meal that’s perfect for summer and requires almost no cooking. Dave has such great intuition when it comes to cooking. It […]
Five-Ingredient Lunch: Caprese Salad
Caprese salads are beautiful on their own and great for adding to a fancy dinner, but because there is so little prep involved I think they’re totally underrated as a lunch item. Plus, there’s no cooking involved and almost no work. If the ingredients are fresh, this salad will stand on its own as a […]
Delicious Dinner Salad, Brought to You By This Week’s CSA
Sometimes there’s nothing better than a pile of farm-fresh veggies and cheese. This Sunday night Dave and I finished running a few errands and decided that we wanted something really fresh for dinner. We ended up making a Cobb-ish creation, starring all kinds of fresh produce from our weekly CSA box. Here’s what we used: […]
What’s in the box?
Yesterday was something I really look forward to: the day we get our CSA box delivered to our doorstep. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and it is a system where you subscribe to buy vegetables from local (or at least fairly close) farmers and basically skip the middleman of going to the grocery store. […]