Category Archives: Weekly menu

This week’s menu includes five vegan or vegetarian meals, one shellfish, and one turkey sausage dinner. Including more plant-based meals now seems like the norm and I am very happy about that.

It’s John’s birthday week! This means starting on Wednesday he will be the same age as me for the next three months! We are celebrating with a nice meal at home and then a trip up to Wine Country with … Continue reading →

Almost the entire week coming up is forecast to have temperatures over 100F. Monday and Tuesday will probably be over 110F. That is hotter than it has ever been in the thirty years we have lived here. Needless to say … Continue reading →

After weeks of nice weather it is supposed to be really hot this coming week, 90s and 100s hot. So we are going to be making mostly no-cook kinds of meals or meals where we can make the cooked components … Continue reading →

We are starting out this week with a creative use of our leftovers from the Family All-Appetizer Dinner on Sunday. John made shrimp cocktail and lollipop ribs and we have enough left to make an Asian surf and turf bowl. … Continue reading →

This week I am making two new dishes in an effort to expand my plant-based recipes repertoire. The shrimp and herb salad with nuoc cham is similar to our usual shrimp bowl but with a slightly different sauce. Beans Marbella … Continue reading →

Hello! I am back from vacation and looking forward to a week of cooking. We ate out a lot over the past three weeks and I need to eat in a healthier manner. I have had enough fast food and … Continue reading →