Camping is great! For the most part. Yes, there’s mad bugs, nature is surprisingly noisy – there always seems to be a woodpecker nearby (the AM jackhammer equivalent of birds) dementedly going at it with a tree, and it’s very easy to frighten yourself with thoughts of someone looming outside of your tent while you … Continue reading Meal Plan Round Up: Weekend Camping Edition
What to do this weekend to get ready for the week Bake Ham & Gruyere Croissants Make Caramelized Cabbage Hit up your local butcher (for sausages) Tartine’s Ham & Gruyere Croissants For those of you who followed along with the croissant saga of 2019 on Instagram Stories (now on Highlights), you may remember that we … Continue reading Meal Plan Round-Up: Week of March 1, 2020
What to do this weekend to get ready for the week Make your anchovy butter Give your beans a nice luxurious soak Nothing Fancy’s Anchovy Butter Chicken w/ Chicken Fat Croutons I have a serious love / hate relationship with roasting a whole chicken. On the one hand, there’s something just really special / romantic … Continue reading Meal Plan Round-Up: Week of February 24th, 2020
Recipe: NYT Cooking Total Time: 45 min Review: In the past few years, we have really started to love and appreciate beans. I especially like white beans, that you can get super creamy and savory. Even the bean broth is great – we freeze it and use it as a base for brown rice. We … Continue reading Creamy Braised White Beans + Scallops
Recipe: Nothing Fancy Cookbook Total Time: 45 min Review: The first time we were introduced to fregola was at Concord Hill, a neighborhood restaurant near our apartment. Any time we would go there, or order in from there, it was impossible to not get the fregola. It was just one of those dishes that you … Continue reading Tiny Creamy Pasta w/ Black Pepper & Pecorino
Here’s what we made last week. Tested, verified, and vying for spots on your meal plan next week What to do over the weekend to get ready for the week Clean your kale you dirty boy Cut up celery & carrots for some desk snacking Make your black bean garlic sauce for the Miso Polenta … Continue reading Meal Plan Roundup: Week of February 16, 2020
We last made this in April 2019 with Spring Vegetables Polenta Recipe: Bon Appetit (swap out asparagus & snow peas for butternut squash & broccoli) Black Bean Garlic Sauce Recipe: loosely based on this Ming Tsai recipe Prep Time: 1 hr (a little longer for Winter Veggies b/c you’re roasting) Note: To winterize this recipe, … Continue reading Miso Polenta w/ Winter Vegetables & Tofu
Note In the everlasting pursuit of bettering ourselves – or at the very least our food blog – we’ve decided to change up the meal plan a bit and go with a more retrospective approach where we post last week’s meal plan, this week. We feel like this round-up format will be better because we’ll … Continue reading Meal Plan: Week of February 9, 2020
What to do this weekend to get ready for the week Make Pork & Red Chile Stew Take some Superhero Muffins out of the freezer for breakfasts Dining In’s Pork & Red Chile Stew w/ Tomatillos The best part about winter is a long simmering stew (and snow, but that doesn’t happen anymore in the … Continue reading Meal Plan: Week of January 26, 2020
Jane & Zak: Meal Prepping from Williamsburg, Brooklyn 