The Best Leftover Turkey Soup I had every intention of getting you this before Thanksgiving, but here we are! One of my favorite recipes from my cookbook is the Rotisserie Chicken Wild and Rice Soup (page 136). It comes together fast, it’s super flavorful and it’s just darn delicious. It dawned on me that you…
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Weekly Meal Plan // October 23-27
MONDAY I’ll make a fresh batch of Super Simple Salad Dressing to use this week and cut carrot and celery sticks for easy noshing. For dinner, it’s the Blackened Redfish Tacos from my cookbook. These Blackened Salmon Tacos are a similar recipe from my blog. I’ll have my fish over shaved cabbage with all the…
Weekly Meal Plan // October 8-13
Hi guys. We’re at our farm near Round Top for the weekend and I’m feeding a gaggle of teenage boys. I need to make this fast (as always). SUNDAY Make a batch of Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce and toss it with rigatoni or ziti. Here’s how I made a batch yesterday, you can see photos…
Weekly Meal Plan // September 11-15
An Easy Week of Dinners September and back-to-school are moving at a brisk pace! This weekend, we had a full house of grandparents in town for our son’s Eagle Scout ceremony. We’ve done a lot of eating, chatting, watching football and tennis and playing with the dog. I went to sleep at 9 p.m. Saturday….
Weekly Meal Plan // August 27-31
Here’s What’s For Dinner SUNDAY Dinner is cavatappi with pesto and a sidedish of sautéed shallots and peas. I’m using up Trader Joe’s kale pesto that I bought for an “easy dinners” demo. It’s a lucky night when you have everything for a salad of baby arugula, buffalo mozzarella, heirloom tomatoes, reduced balsamic, Old Country…
Weekly Meal Plan // August 20-25
My kids start school this week and I’m currently moving my oldest into her sophomore dorm. Since her freshman year was at American University in Paris, this move-in feels much more “typical.” We’ve been to three Targets, Ikea, Pottery Barn and Macy’s. Considering there are multiple universities in the DC area, finding a twin duvet…
Weekly Meal Plan//August 6-11
Back to Simple Dinners I’m getting packed up and organized for a travel day tomorrow. I can’t lie that I’m a tiny bit sad to return to the heat of Houston. Plus, there will be a serious amount of catch-up to do this coming week. But I’m thankful for such a relaxing and peaceful summer…
How to Pull Off Weeknight Meals
Weeknight Dinner Strategy August 1 is here. Yikes, how did that happen? August creates a feeling of “Sunday night blues” for me. It means I’m adding sports and school events to my calendar, reading through emails I’ve ignored and getting armored up for the school year. And by armored up, I mean whipping my kitchen…
Weekly Meal Plan // May 7 – 12
Weekly Meal Plan // May 7 – 12 SUNDAY We had a full day and tomorrow I’ll be on HoustonLife, so tonight was spent getting organized for my cooking segment. I picked up two quarts of vegetable beef soup from Tres Market Foods and made the gluten-free cornbread recipe on the back of Bob’s Red…
Weekly Meal Plan // April 23 – 28
Let’s get right to it because I’m off to Taylor Swift! Have a great week. SUNDAY Since I’m headed to the Taylor Swift concert, the boys in my family are on their own! I have some cabbage and leeks to use up, so if I’m motivated early in the day I’ll make this soup. MONDAY…