Lunch

Vegetables

Netflix & SPC: Vegetable or Fruit Spring Rolls

When you have small children you basically sell everything as an adventure. Heading to the mall? “We’re going on a shopping adventure and I wonder what we’ll find?” are the

Vegetables

Easy Shrimp Tacos

When Laura and I worked at a fashion magazine together we prided ourselves on reporting on trends before they hit the mainstream. If a competing magazine got to a story

By Ingredient

Artisanal Toasts

We’ve been talking “fresh” and “local” a lot lately. It’s that glorious time of year when local produce is everywhere: the grocery store, farmer’s markets, farm stands and, maybe, even

By Season

Sponsored Post: Clover Leaf Tuna Rice Cakes

How do we feel about food ruts? I have a love hate relationship with them – both my own and my kids’. It can certainly make life easy if your

By Meal Type

Chicken Noodle Soup

I’m a big believer in not feed­ing kids “kid food” — know what I mean? I never order from the kids’ menu in restau­rants. I think a par­ent is their own worst enemy if they

Lunch

Chicken with Red Beans and Rice

We’re going through a really good food phase in our house. Esme has decided she loves mussels and squid and over a recent ramen lunch, Julian announced that he loved

Poultry

One-pot Tomato Basil Chicken Pasta

I recently had a girlfriend tell me she wakes up thinking about dinner, but not in that good way when you can’t wait to tuck into a meal. Instead she

By Ingredient

Tuna Casserole

Happy Monday! So, this is spring? Um… am I missing something? Like sunshine? Flowers? Sigh. This is an old post that got a snazzy new photo but it’s also one

By Ingredient

Apple Chicken Curry

Good morn­ing, lovely peo­ple! Laura and I have been talk­ing for ages about jour­ney­ing into the way back of our archives to re-photograph old recipes that we love (but which had

Fall

Lentil Chili

Do you think Laura scared winter away with her angry outburst the other day? I like to tease that her temper can run to horse-head-in-the-bed extremes (which is actually almost