Meal Plans

Recap of Last Week’s Meal Plan Last week’s meal plan gave us plenty of good food throughout the week, along with tasty leftovers for lunch. I hope you had a chance to try the Chicken Larb recipe—it was a hit with my family! While I’m already brainstorming ways to bump up the nutritional content of…Read More

We’ve got a special houseguest this week and that calls for a meal plan with extra tasty food! Grandma will be in town and I want to make sure to feed her well. I also have lunch plans to introduce my mom to True Foods Kitchen in Palo Alto – I know she will love…Read More

We had a bit of a heatwave in the Bay Area last week, and it was a nice change of pace! In my particular location on the peninsula, we don’t get too many of those even during the summer. Thankfully, salads, the air fryer, and crockpot meals helped us avoid heating up the kitchen too…Read More

Where Did Summer Go? Welcoming September and a New Season I couldn’t believe my eyes when I woke up and saw that the calendar had turned into a new month overnight. Where did summer go? For many of us with kids at home, August and September bring the “new year” feeling as the kids head…Read More

Well… The 49ers vs the KC Chiefs – we hosted a very fun party in Feb 2020 when they last played each other and KC took home the win that time.  I’m hoping it’s a different outcome this time but really I’m just looking forward to a good matchup, the food and Usher halftime show!…Read More

This is one of those weeks where my meal plan is not the easiest to share with you all! They are from cookbooks I own, websites I subscribe to or just plain made up because I need to use up some food I have.  And one of them I feel I need to test one…Read More

Looking ahead my family calendar is showing a very busy February.  Perhaps yours is as well? When this happens I lean hard on my freezer.  High quality proteins such as shrimp, chicken thigh, ground turkey and beef are quick cooking options that my family enjoys. Eating homemade food is so important to me that I’m…Read More

Busy busy weeks call for easy recipes! After taking a wonderful trip to Mexico City last week and then being thrown back into busy life, I appreciate the habit of meal planning more than ever.  This week I’ve got several easy and flavorful recipes to get us through most of the week ahead. I hope you…Read More

It’s back to routine in our house this week… I’ve quite enjoyed all that the holiday break had to offer – some beautiful mountain time, many meals with friends and family, a lovely birthday, and lots of fun planning for 2024. I see travel ahead, wonderful work opportunities, cooking classes and camps as well as…Read More

Happy New Year to you all! I hope the holiday season was full of friends and family – I can already guess it was probably full of delicious food! Mine sure was. Speaking of food… this is definitely the time of year that people tend to jump on drastic diets, cleanses and detox foods of…Read More