Meal Plan 1/26- 2/1
Look who interrupted our menu plan last week! Ella’s arrival into the Hutchison family means that I skipped most of last week’s meals and I’m working with leftover ginger, beets, citrus, and apples in this week’s menu. No complaints here, though. My grocery bill is very happy to have the extra ingredients. And I’m happy to have the new niece. Here’s what we’re getting from Greenling in the Local Box: Tangerines – Orange Blossom Mustard Greens – Naegelin Broccoli – Texas Daily Harvest Various Lettuce – Acadian Baby Arugula...
Read MoreBreakfast Resolution Update
One of my big New Year’s resolutions is to eat more breakfast in 2011. Seventeen days into the new year, I’m happy to report that it’s going awesome sort of okay. Except not. I ate breakfast twice in the last two weeks. Good news first: that’s two hundred percent more breakfast than I ate in 2010. Now the bad news: one of those breakfasts occured at dinner time. (Remember that yummy apple pancake cake last week?) And the other breakfast came from McDonald’s. I ate it in my car. Not only did it taste terrible, I felt guilty and irritable after I ate it. This...
Read MoreMenu Plan 1/12-1/19
This has been a really crazy week. You can probably tell I’ve been busy with work and some personal projects because posting on the blog has been light. Sorry about that. It’s for a good cause, though, I promise. Tomorrow at work I start teaching a six-week course called “Exploring Chamber Music” to a large group of retirees. I’ve had a blast putting together the lecture materials and working with musicians to find great repertoire to teach, but it’s been taking up a lot of my usual blogging time. Things should get back to normal soon. The saving graces in...
Read MoreHow to Cook Winter Greens
If you’ve seen the Greenling newsletter this week, you know that we’re celebrating a great season of greens! Winter is prime time in Texas for kale, spinach, curly mustard, collards, arugula, bok choy, and lots of other leafy vegetables. These nutritional powerhouses are fun to cook with and easy to include in meals, either as main dishes or as sides. The guide below gives some basic cooking methods for greens, plus suggestions as to which vegetables are best suited for those methods: Greenling’s Cooking Guide to Greens Of course, a great way to enjoy greens is on...
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