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Here is an unpublished post I discovered from back when I was preparing for baby to arrive… These meals saved me in those early days—easy to reheat, nutrient-dense, and manageable with a baby in tow. List of Freezer Meals In response to Marcy’s comment, here is a list of the meals I’ve been stashing away in […]
Over the last several weeks I’ve been experimenting with making yoghurt in a desire to satisfy my dairy cravings in a healthy-ish manner. I was inspired by the extremely straightforward recipe for doing so in the Nourishing Traditions recipe book which basically tells you to After a quick trip to the housewares shop to buy a thermometer,
I invited friends to dinner on Thursday night. Our first dinner guests – actually our first guests – since moving in six weeks ago. Unbeknownst to me, my invitation coincided with the local power company’s plan to replace all the electricity meters in the neighbourhood. Of course it did. ‘It will take two hours,
Our furniture finally arrived two weeks ago. I heard the beeps backing up the driveway and was surprised to see they had an enormous truck carting a entire container on the back! In London, they had just loaded our stuff into a medium-sized lorry. We didn’t even have half a container’s worth,
For three weeks running we received bok choy in the veggie box. This in itself is not a problem. We like bok choy, it is tasty and good for you. The problem was my limited kitchen apparatus. I usually stir fry bok choy or at least use a fry pan to wilt it when
This week in the veg box we got a little bag of pattypan squash (also known as scallop squash). I’ve never seen or heard of them before. They look like little yellow flying saucers from 50’s advertising. I did a bit of googling to find out what to do with them and was uninspired until
I’m not very good at preparing small portions, so we very frequently have leftovers. This is good when it is soup or stew or something that can easily freeze and be revisited some time in the near future. Unfortunately my potato salad is not a freezer friendly dish, so we had a portion or two
I have been missing my veggie garden and fresh herbs and Mr Duncan surprised me by bringing home a big bunch of basil the other night. How romantic! The problem was we didn’t have any of the mediterranean type ingredients that I traditionally use with basil. In fact all I had in the
While it is great to have access to a kitchen again, the kitchen here is pretty limited in its equipment – it has one pot with a lid, one pot without a lid, a frying pan and a casserole dish. Sigh. I’m reluctant to fully stock the kitchen with staples and spices as we’ll have
With Pipkin I had no appetite, but I had no nausea to keep at bay either. All I wanted to eat was dairy (yoghurt or custard or ice cream) and plain crackers or breadsticks. Obviously I provided myself more nutrition than that, but only because I was following my brain instead of just my