Mise en place

March 10 - 20 Meal Planning

I just can't seem to manage consistently planning meals for two weeks in a row. This last week, however, was probably my best non-planned out week of meals. Several of the meals were either leftovers...

March 4 - 11 Meal Planning

I'm really just trying to get by without just copying a previous week. There's going to be a lot of going out the eat this week....

February 25 - March 4 Meal Planning

Through most of February, we didn't create a meal plan at all. It was terrible and caused a fair amount of stress. It reminded me how much I really dislike the just-got-home-from-work "what do you...

January 29 - February 4 Meal Planning

I'm watching the Grammy's while trying to meal plan. It's terrible, because the acts go between artists that I don't care about and acts that I sort-of-kind-of want to enjoy. And then there are the...

January 21-27 Meal Planning

After two weeks of solid meal planning, the third week got skipped entirely. Katie worked on Saturday and I was home on MLK, which meant that by the time my weekend was over, I was already thrown...

Hamburger and Fries Experiment

This is an experimental recipe. I tried it once, and then it clearly needed some tweaking. I've made the changes in the recipe below, and if it needs more adjustments after the second time through,...

January 8-14 Meal Planning

The first week of meal planning went well... as well as a first week of any experiment goes. I didn't do a very good job of thinking about all of the sides and ingredients needed to accompany the...