Dinner two nights this week included a quinoa salad I’ve been experimenting with. It will be featured on a Fusion NW TV show soon. We filmed it in our kitchen on Wednesday morning and talked about three easy grains to cook. These grains are good to eat while transitioning away from white rice and white… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
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Frugal in San Francisco Part 2
Not having spent much time in the city of San Francisco, the point of our visit was to immerse ourselves in the neighborhood and walk everywhere. When we arrived at our home exchange house on Sunday evening, we parked our car in their garage and agreed to not drive it again until we left for… Continue reading Frugal in San Francisco Part 2
Three Easy Herbs to Grow
This should really be titled, “Three Fool-Proof Herbs to Grow” because these herbs are easy to grow even if you’ve never gardened before. Growing herbs is an excellent way to get started gardening because you don’t need fancy tools or special equipment to do it. All of these herbs can be grown in the ground… Continue reading Three Easy Herbs to Grow
Three Easy Grains to Cook
When it comes to keeping a stocked pantry, I try to always have certain items on hand so that when I check my meal plan to see what’s cooking for dinner, I know there will be enough of something when it comes time to prepare it. These are three easy grains that I like to… Continue reading Three Easy Grains to Cook
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We’ve gotten used to eating tomato soup made from tomatoes grown in our garden so when I made a quick tomato soup this week with canned tomatoes, we all agreed it didn’t taste nearly as good and was too salty. At the end of last tomato season, I roasted all of the remaining tomatoes, in… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Dinner Group Gathering
Our dinner group met earlier this month and as usual it was delicious. I think what I love the most about being part of a dinner group, aside from getting together with friends regularly in a lovely setting, is being forced to try new recipes. I don’t usually cook with recipes and I am usually… Continue reading Dinner Group Gathering
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So, when your teenage son says he wants to make potato Latkes for dinner, what do you do? You say YES of course! That’s what we had for dinner one night – every last 3.5lbs of organic potatoes in one meal. It was delicious. Weekly Meal Plan This meal plan is Monday, February 20, 2012… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
How to Roast Red Peppers
I haven’t always roasted my own red peppers. I used to buy them in a jar because I thought it must be difficult to roast them. Roasting up peppers is so easy and they taste so much better than what comes in a jar. When you roast peppers yourself they also don’t have all the… Continue reading How to Roast Red Peppers
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Since it was Valentine’s Day this week and I was feeling so much love after writing about everything I loved, I baked a double layer cake, too. The cake was quite good with ice cream and coffee the next morning. It was gone before I could take pictures of it. I have a feeling that… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
Several readers have asked me to post our meal plan each week. I’ve decided to try to do this on Saturdays. The recipes from these meals will eventually find their way to Go Gingham. My cooking is free form style and I just make things up as I go along. Weekly Meal Plan I meal… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
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