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
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
What to do this weekend to get ready for the week Freeze your tofu to get the water out (check out Food52’s article here) Make A Very Good Lasagna Whip up a batch of Cold Elixir Clean your kale (just because) Nothing Fancy’s A Very Good Lasagna Lasagna makes for the perfect weekend meal. It’s … Continue reading Meal Plan: Week of January 19, 2020
Recipe: Run Fast Eat Slow Total Time: 1 hr Review: Since Zak has been getting breakfast at his new job, I’ve really been left out in the cold, unable to muster up the energy to smoothie-myself. So, in the spirit of knowing thyself and thy morning sleepiness, I wanted to try these muffins I found … Continue reading Superhero Muffins
Recipe: NYTimes Cooking Total Time: 1 hr (15 min for the porridge; 45 min for cranberry molasses) Review: Despite Zak’s cynicism, all the new year’s resolution articles have us feeling more upbeat and inspired. Upon reading The Meat-Lover’s Guide to Eating Less Meat, I’m envisioning Zak and I drinking herbal tonics and magically thinking vegan cheese … Continue reading Oat Porridge w/ Cranberry Molasses
Jane & Zak: Meal Prepping from Williamsburg, Brooklyn 