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 […]
Weeknight Dinner: Asparagus Tart
Tarts are such a great thing to have for dinner. While they do take a little skill and preparation, they have great presentation and give off the impression of being much more difficult and reserved for special occasions than they actually are. Ever since we got those beautiful asapargus(es? asparagi?) in our CSA this week, […]
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. […]