This soup is one of my go-to lunch soups, especially as the weather gets colder. It’s dead simple to make, keeps well, freezes well, and can be jazzed up multiple ways to keep it from getting boring.

Last weeks meal plan was fairly successful. We stuck to the plan for dinners, but I miscalculated for lunches and we wound up with more food waste than I’m happy with. This week I’m adding some lunch planning to the spreadsheet. Also this week I’ve …

We’ve made it through two full weeks of 2022 and so far, so good! Here are my five things for this week. ONE I bought a juicer! I realized after finishing my week of juicing last Friday that I do feel much better if I …

This tomato sauce is at the heart of a good number of the dishes I make on a regular basis as well as being a go-to for a quick and easy dinner when the meal plan falls through. I always want to keep some in …

Welcome to the first Meal Plan Monday! Meal planning is nothing new for me. I’ve always kept a rough meal plan and shopping list in my household Excel file but over the last couple of years it has gotten a little more complex. Zach and …

Let’s just jump right into the first Friday Five of 2022. These are the things that have been on my mind this week. ONE Today is the last day of my 3rd annual post-holiday juice fast. This year I did the “expert” level program – …

Skip directly to the recipe It’s tradition in the South to eat black-eyed peas in some shape or form for luck in the new year. Some places make Hoppin’ John, a mixture of peas, rice, and pork or ham. In Texas, you couldn’t watch a …

I’ve always enjoyed and looked forward to the symbolic “restart” of the New Year. The winding down of Christmas and the indulgent holidays, the packing away of the decorations, the traditional New Year’s Day meal of black-eyed peas and greens and cornbread instead of the …

I’m honestly not sure what to say about 2021 other than for us it epitomized Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. The Worst: We’re still firmly locked in a Covid loop, despite being …

It’s been a whole lot of Fridays since the last Friday Five and I’m sorry for that. I’m just going to cut right to the chase: On July 4th weekend, while we were painting the garden shed, Zach had a heart attack; a STEMI – …

Let me tell you about the time I thought I was going to have to convince Zach to let me build a garden shed, and how spectacularly that didn’t go the way I expected. The Setup I had my whole strategy worked out. I was …

Today is my last day of work before vacation and I’m definitely having a little “vacation brain” kicking in early. I have a couple of things I need to finish and document for my co-workers who are covering for me next week and then I …