Menu for the Week – 3 days left

The girls are still at camp. S & I are finally home after a lot of traveling. I don’t know how people who travel constantly for business do it. I’m exhausted and I’ve done no work. The travel just takes it out of you. That, and not exercising enough. And, eating too much. We are [...]

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Menu for the Week

For some reason, it has been hard to get back on track with writing. I’ve taken a lot of pictures, but I really haven’t been inspired to write about much of what I’ve been cooking. On the other hand, some meals have been very memorable – like the shellfish stew last week. I also made [...]

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Menu for the Week

Busy. Busy. Easy. Easy. Monday: Black bean soup, fresh bread, pineapple Tuesday: Breakfast for dinner Wednesday: Brown Rice salad with Apples (Tyler Florence), cold artichokes Thursday: Steamed fish, rice, green bean salad Friday: Pasta with broccoli and parmesan Plus…2 dz. carrot cupcakes for teacher appreciation on Tuesday at J’s school and 2 dz. brownies for [...]

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Menu for the Week

For the first time in a long time, I’m actually putting a menu for the week together. At the beginning of the week! Wednesday may change because J has decided that she doesn’t want to eat anything leavened this week. She says rice is o.k., but pasta is not. L, newly a bat mitzvah, is [...]

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Menu for the Week – Retrospectively

It is the end of the week and I am just getting down to writing what we ate. Not a great planning week. Too much going on. However, it was a pretty good eating week. Monday: Grilled steak, asparagus, baked potatoes and baked sweet potatoes, salad, strawberry shortcake Tuesday: Spaghetti with sausage and tomato sauce, [...]

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Menu for the Week

We have a very busy week this week with school performances, evening meetings, guests and then a ski weekend. Whew. Can’t complain because all are fun and wonderful. But, at the same time, it means we will have to have pretty quick dinners (except for when we have our guests!). Monday: JT’s Sausage and Pasta [...]

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Menu for the Week

It is Tuesday morning, and I just finished baking the cake for S’s birthday dinner tonight. I made a new frosting and changed up my usual yellow cake recipe. I can’t wait to taste it all together. The frosting is…..mmmmmm. It is a “seafoam” frosting, which I decided to try because the regular 7-minute marshmallow [...]

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Menu for the Week

It has been a pretty strange week, dinner-wise. J is on vacation from school, while L does not have vacation. J stayed over at a friend’s house on Tuesday, and S went away for a couple of nights. S returns today to pick up J and take her on a little overnight excursion. So, most [...]

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Menu for the Week

The raviolis that L and her friends made were very inspiring to me. I tried several years ago to make home made pasta. I bought a pasta machine -the old fashioned kind where you hand crank the dough through rollers until it is very thin. I bought a fairly inexpensive model, figuring that if I [...]

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Menu for the Week

After the deluge of last week, I have been in a comfort food mode. We finished last week with a very relaxing dinner with old friends and I made braised lamb shanks (pictures and recipe to follow in my next post). While I was at the market buying the lamb shanks, I picked up a [...]

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