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I consider tomatoes a staple food, regardless that my BF claims they can’t be a staple. My tomato plants aren’t even blooming yet, but at least are planted (30 of them), so we will be using home canned tomatoes this week. I can’t wait for Caprese - tomato mozzarella basil salad as soon […]

I love strawberries!
Unless I do something with frozen strawberries, like make a margarita with them to make room in the freezer for this year’s batch, I will be passing on using any fresh ones. Why when I love them so? Because in Michigan, strawberries won’t be ripe for another month at the earliest. […]

Natalie over at Gluten Free Mommy is hosting this week’s menu and the ingredient is cilantro, one of my favorite herbs!  She has been on the South Beach diet and has lost 10 pounds! Congrats Natalie!  Check out her website for a list of many Gluten free menus!
Saturday: Backyard picnic
Spicy Goat brats with potato salad […]

This week’s menu swap is hosted by Gluten Free Mommy and the ingredient is lemon! The ironic thing is I used about a dozen lemons in last week’s menu. I was in a lemon mood and ate most of the 8×8 pan of double lemon bars myself over the week.
Sunday: Wales, home […]

Ginger Lemon Girl is again hosting this week’s menu swap. Swing over to her site and check out all the menus!
Sunday: Ethopian
Doro Wot from Saveur and red lentil stew on rice as my Injera bread did not work.
Monday: Classic French American
Grass fed steaks on the grill with bearnaise sauce (from scratch), tator […]

While in Seattle I thought I would see if we could get into Wild Ginger for dinner. For some reason everything I had read lead me to believe that one must have a reservation long in advance. Turns out that is not the case, at least not on a Monday night. We […]

Finally, it is the day I wait for all year long: St Patty’s Day. You might think that I gave up partying hard for this day in my twenties (like most) or in my thirties (like the rest) but no! I still plan to do a pub crawl today (albeit with only […]

The pic above is of my meyer lemon blooms on my new “prepare for global warming” lemon tree (Remember, I live in MI, not in CA or FL where this might be common).

I truly have good intentions of posting all about my great trip. I returned to work chaos and it has only gotten […]

I have jury duty this week, so since I my schedule is not in my control, I am going for more simplified meals, unless I get home early (I work out of my house when not on the road) then I might just change it up a bit. This week’s menu swap is hosted […]

This week’s menu swap is hosted by Ginger Lemon Girl!
Once again I am attempting to get organized.
1. It makes it a lot easier to plan ahead and not spend a lot of time every afternoon thinking about what to cook that eve.
2. It saves on trips to the grocery store.
3. I have a […]