One of the reasons I first started cooking was my displeasure with what I was bringing to work for lunch. I found myself wanting a real meal midday. Not a sandwich (sandwiches can be real meals, but the ones I was making weren’t), not a prepackaged freezer meal, not a container of yogurt. A real, [...]
School’s back in full swing around here and that means I’m facing the same dilemma I’ve been facing for 4 years. The same dilemma that helped start this blog. What are we going to have for lunch? The question goes beyond the obvious fact that neither Brian or I want to buy the school lunch. [...]
If the kids in your neighborhood haven’t gone back to school already, they probably are this week. Here I am, about to start my 27th year of life and I haven’t been off the academic calendar since I was 3. I love September. I love the change in weather, I love the return of fall [...]
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about school lunch (April 1, 2009; August 23, 2010). As a public school teacher in a district where many of the students are on free or reduced lunch and as a person who is fairly picky about what I put in my body, it’s an issue I naturally [...]
I hate to break it to you, but it’s just about time to go back to school (if you haven’t gone back already). I’m not even going to count the days until Brian goes back to work (and hopefully I do too, but I’m still waiting to hear. Story of my life.) Let’s just say [...]
I thought I was just going through a yogurt phase when I started eating yogurt over the summer. 6 months later and I’m still eating yogurt every day. I never eat the same thing for that long, but I really like it and I feel good about eating it. Part of this interest may be [...]
Some of you may recall the School Lunch Links post I made on April 1. The gist of it is that school lunch offerings in this country are pretty awful and there’s legislation being worked on right now to change that. Honestly, I’d kind of forgotten about it (something about trying to finish out the [...]
If there one thing I have a hard time with it’s taking good photos of my food. I realize the image above looks like a bowl of mush. It is a bowl of mush. But it’s an incredibly delicious bowl of mush. The recipe from Real Simple is called “Spicy Black Beans”; my future brother-in-law [...]
Mark Bittman tweeted this great link this morning regarding school lunches. I completely agree with Gehry Oatey’s post, especially this line: Tellingly, I rarely see any teachers eating the school lunch. Seems strange that this needs to be said, but if it’s not good enough for us, why do we give it to our students? [...]
11:43: All I’ve eaten this morning was half a granola bar (still too sweet, I haven’t changed my mind) and a hand full of walnuts. I want real lunch. Time to finish the fried rice started this morning. 11:44: Gather ingredients: oil, bell pepper (green; you should’ve seen the produce selection at the supermarket last [...]
