Tag: Food

Bountiful Baskets

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I recently changed jobs and after years of working weekends I now have Saturdays off. This is exciting for lots of reasons, but one of them is Bountiful Baskets. Bountiful Baskets are affordable boxes of produce that feel a little bit like Chopped ingredient baskets because you never know what you’re going to get. I got up early to go pick up my basket and was greeted by this gorgeous sunrise.

Look at all this great produce!

This pan is overflowing, but it will cook down, right??

Roasty roasty!

The perspective is probably lost, but this is my largest mixing bowl full of washed and chopped lettuce. Actually, that’s not true, I have bigger mixing bowls.

French fries! The potatoes that Lil Turnip will eat!

Chopped up additions to the salad. The bottom one is hearts of palm. I had a can on hand and figured if I cut them up they’d be yummy add-ins for the salad.

Good stuff, all packaged up to eat for the week.

Oh, and this is what happens if you leave the bag of fruit sitting on the floor in reach of your toddler. Why eat one apple when you can take a bite out of each one?

Curried Garbanzo Beans With Greens And Naan

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I’m a bean lover. I eat a ton of beans. If I’m hungry nothing quite satisfies me like beans. Curried garbanzo beans in the instant pot sounded like just the thing. Don’t forget to bloom your spices! I was so hungry and excited to eat that I forgot to take a picture of it all plaited up for dinner. So the last picture is the leftovers packed up for lunch. Delicious!

 

 

Change in the Weather

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It got chilly all of a sudden. Like someone flipped a switch. Every year when this happens people make the same joke, that the temperature went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper. That means it’s time for pots of tea a firing up the oven. Dutch Baby pancakes for breakfast. Yum!

Rosh Hashanah

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We hosted friends for Rosh Hashanah yesterday, which is a celebration of the Jewish new year. We made round braided challah and borscht. The little kids enthusiastically dipped apples in honey and we all tried new fruits of fresh yellow dates and longon. Shana tova to you and may you be inscribed for a sweet new year!

Baking Challah

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Shabbat shalom! I love making challah and have been doing it for years. My go-to recipe is the Mark Bittman no knead bread recipe because it makes the best easiest bread I’ve ever eaten. It’s not traditional, but I figure as long as I separate the dough and say the blessing it works. But now that I have a toddler who wants to be involved in the process I’m trying to change it up because the no knead bread is too wet and soft to braid.

After a web search for “making challah with a toddler” I ended up trying a recipe for easy challah in a bag. It turned out better than expected and I’m making it a second time today.

Challah in a Bag

It’s really fun that Lil Turnip is really getting to an age where I can involve her in these kinds of projects. Even if all she wants to do is eat the raw dough.