A Valentine’s Day menu that everyone will love and be excited for. Additionally, an introduction to the new online recipe site Foodily: Food, I love you. Every year for Valentine’s Day our tradition is to plan a special meal for the family. Ole and I have never actually done anything huge or extravagant, but considering our love for food, it seems only right that we’d share a meal with those little bundles of love we have right here at home. Plus, Valentine’s Day is on... more

One of the things we strive for when planning our menus is making everything fit together into one nice, neat little package. We look to use ingredients in different ways throughout the week so that we’re benefiting from the ability of do-aheads and being able to buy in bulk. We also benefit from a well-stocked pantry. I head out this week to Nashville. I’d like to say this meant I’ve been planning ahead and making sure the family will be fed, but I really just started thinking... more

One of the things we strive for when planning our menus is making everything fit together into one nice, neat little package. We look to use ingredients in different ways throughout the week so that we’re benefiting from the ability of do-aheads and being able to buy in bulk. We also benefit from a well-stocked pantry. I have a cold. As a result, I’m slowly crawling through my inbox while constantly sipping my favorite Mighty Leaf blends, all while wrapped in the thickest blanket... more

One of the things we strive for when planning our menus is making everything fit together into one nice, neat little package. We look to use ingredients in different ways throughout the week so that we’re benefiting from the ability of do-aheads and being able to buy in bulk. We also benefit from a well-stocked pantry. I’m hearing reports of snow days all over the place. No snow days here, but we have snow falling four or five out of the seven days this week, just nothing too exciting.... more

One of the things we strive for when planning our menus is making everything fit together into one nice, neat little package. We look to use ingredients in different ways throughout the week so that we’re benefiting from the ability of do-aheads and being able to buy in bulk. We also benefit from a well-stocked pantry. So this is the New Year, and things look a little different. It’s a Clean Start for the New Year, and I hope you’re as excited about it as I am. My dear friend... more

One of the things we strive for when planning our menus is making everything fit together into one nice, neat little package. We look to use ingredients in different ways throughout the week so that we’re benefiting from the ability of do-aheads and being able to buy in bulk. We also benefit from a well-stocked pantry. Wow, an actual menu for the week. Things have been a bit crazy around these parts, but we’re slowly getting back to new normal where life continues to move despite... more

One of the things we strive for when planning our menus is making everything fit together into one nice, neat little package. We look to use ingredients in different ways throughout the week so that we’re benefiting from the ability of do-aheads and being able to buy in bulk. We also benefit from a well-stocked pantry. We dressed in our finest and headed out into the night: a pirate, a cat, a Clone Trooper and a dragon. Within 45 minutes, we were spent and hungry. (Well, the pirate stayed... more