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
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
Recipe: Bon Appetit Total Time: 1.5 hrs Notes: We substituted in chia seeds and flax seeds for hemp seeds and used the Food 52 method for getting the water out of the tofu. Review: This was… challenging. Slicing up all the brussel sprouts, de-pitting the olives, and making the dressing all took up a big … Continue reading Roasted Broccoli & Tofu w/ Creamy Miso Dressing
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
Recipe: Mix between Small Victories’ A Nice Lasagna and Nothing Fancy’s A Very Good Lasagna Total Time: 6 hrs Notes: We made the noodles from scratch from Small Victories’ recipe, followed Nothing Fancy’s sauce recipe but added yogurt to get a pink-ish sauce, then did our own cheese (1.5 lbs mozzarella, 1 lb ricotta, 1 … Continue reading A Very Good & Nice Lasagna
Recipe: NYTimes Cooking Total Time: 45 min Review: This was also the first time (weirdly) we cooked with red lentils and they are BEAUTIFUL. Little golden suns of legume goodness. The suns then simmered away and made this spicy deliciousness that filled up our bellies. We ate it with garlic naan, heated up in the … Continue reading Masoor Dal (Spiced Red Lentils)
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
Jane & Zak: Meal Prepping from Williamsburg, Brooklyn 