Food is life. Food is life, isn't it? Whether you’re at home, at the office or traveling, life centers around what to eat for the next meal. So much of our day is spent eating food, shopping for food, cooking food or thinking about food. What to eat? When to eat it? Where to eat? … Continue reading Go Gingham Food Philosophy
Category: in the kitchen
Meal planning, grocery shopping, and healthy eating. Cooking, eating healthy food and reducing food waste.
Weekly Meal Plan
Can you tell which nights our family has something going on? It seems every time there’s a school meeting or a practice or a game, we’re eating bean and cheese burritos with fresh salsa and our favorite sauce! Yes, it’s a weekly meal and it’s quick and healthy as long as the cheese doesn’t get… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Sour Cream Chipotle Sauce
Every food market we ate at during our home exchange to The Netherlands, had a similar theme: sauce. I loved how no matter what we ordered, they had a sauce to put on top of it. Fried kibberling? Yes, please. French fries? Why, yes, please. When presented with your food, the market attendant would loudly… Continue reading Sour Cream Chipotle Sauce
Let Your Kids Cook Dinner Each Week
When someone hears that my kids each cook a dinner every single week and clean-up the kitchen after the meal, they’re intrigued. They want to know details. Questions like: How did you get started? How do you do it? Do your kids still need help in the kitchen? These are all good questions and even… Continue reading Let Your Kids Cook Dinner Each Week
Weekly Meal Plan
My garden finally got planted and that includes tomato plants which I usually plant with leftover fish scraps from the market when they fillet a fish for me. The fish didn’t get thawed in time for me to plant them with the tomatoes so I used the fish to make a fish stew instead. I… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Grilled Vegetables
My favorite time of year for cooking is during the summer. Between the fresh vegetables from the garden and my husband firing up his big Weber to grill , it’s easy cooking at our house. Since it’s not grilled meat every night at our dinner table (like my family wishes it was!), I’ve got an… Continue reading Grilled Vegetables
Weekly Meal Plan
Our weekly meal plan had several arrows and redirects this week. Spring sports activities kept our family switching things around on our weekly meal plan. The good news is no one went hungry and we didn’t go out to dinner but we did have to purchase eggs at the grocery store. This drives me nuts! … Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Best Ever Garlicky Tangy BBQ Sauce
My husband made up the title for this sauce. It’s his recipe and I just wrote it down. Only a little bit of encouraging was needed. It’s so good you’ll want a spoon. A big spoon. I spilled some on the counter and considered licking it off but stopped myself. (Please don’t tell my kids… Continue reading Best Ever Garlicky Tangy BBQ Sauce
Weekly Meal Plan
Our family hasn’t been out to dinner for a meal in so long. I’m pretty sure the last time we went to a restaurant for dinner it was last summer while on vacation. I mention this because I felt a little bad this week when I was scheduled to go out to dinner with a… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Homemade Tortilla Chips
For our Cinco de Mayo celebration we had last Saturday night, we made our own tortilla chips. Before you picture me rolling out tortillas and deep frying the little strips or triangles, think again. I purchase warm, fresh tortillas from my favorite local Mexican market, cut the tortillas and transform them into chips. These homemade… Continue reading Homemade Tortilla Chips
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