Week 12 – Danny Boome  This week’s chef for the Food Network Chef Cooking Challenge is Danny Boome. Never heard of him! I checked out his food network recipes as well as his recipes from his UK show. I was just uninspired. I’d wanted to a beef recipe to use up some of the […]
 Week 11 – Daisy Martinez This week’s Food Network Chef Cooking Challenge features Daisy Martinez. Although fairly new to food network, she also has a PBS show, and her own website. Her own personal site had a lot more recipe choices than the Food Network listing. Still, I ended up choosing my recipe from a Food […]
I did not stick well to my plan last week. I ended up not getting my shopping all done for the things we needed. But on the plus side, I didn’t actually shop for anything that wasn’t on the plan either. We had pizza one night (mom was in town), and went out one night […]
As I have mentioned before, finding quail eggs has been a perpetual thorn in my side. I have been to over a dozen stores, from local asian markets, gourmet groceries and “world foods” vendors to chain stores like Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and the like. Although I didn’t find quail eggs, I did go back a […]
 This week’s Food Network Chef’s Cooking Challenge features Claire Robinson. This is one of the rare weekend only shows (5 Ingredient Fix) that I have actually seen a few times. When it first premiered I watched several episodes. I like her; seems very warm and approachable, and her recipes are very easy (with only […]
I only managed to stick to my menu plan for half the week last week. Going to carry over a couple recipes since I have the ingredients for them. I really liked the Bacon Cheeseburger Wellingtons; the boys had mixed reactions. I ended up using some hamburger from the freezer that had been pre-cooked with […]
Getting a recipe to use this week has been a challenge! For me, when I try to browse the “top 100” recipes for ANY chef, (except for the 8 or 9 they specifically have listed as links), no recipes come up.  I had to spend a bit of time doing “Cat Cora” +Ingedient searches. Just using […]
  This week’s food network chef cooking challenge features Brian Boitano. Yes, that Brian Boitano. I watched it once and thought the food he was cooking sounded repulsive (It was a bacon themed day, how he made bacon sound bad, I don’t know, but he did!). So it was with some apprehension that I browsed […]
Because of the kidlet’s early history (he is adopted, was badly neglected the first six months of his life, and was very delayed), we did our own version of homeschooling from the time he was very little. At first we worked with an early head start program; after the adoption was final we didn’t qualify […]
Today is an inservice day in our school district, so no school. Probably no bento either. I have a question for you moms out there though … how much does your child eat for a snack when they get home from school? The kidlet has breakfast around 7am. I *try* to give him a decent […]
