This is a great recipe if you are looking to get some fresh summer flavors from the grill. Inspired by ingredients from West Asian and Mediterranean foodways, this dish leverages a tahini, lemons, and garlic sauce or grilled chicken skewers that taste great served over bulgar, rice, or couscous. Best…
Leigh Belanger
Food Rules, Riffing on Recipes, and Really High Heat – A Month of Meat Week Three
As part of our menu planning practice around here, we also have some food rules. We’re pretty picky about proteins — meat is always hormone and antibiotic free; ideally, it’s pasture-raised; and in a perfect world, I know which farm it’s coming from. Given these specifications, the meat we buy is…
Embracing the Freezer, Whole Spices, and Doubling Recipes — A Month of Meat Week Two
My steadfast embrace of the freezer has long been a tactic that helps me execute family dinner on the regular. I freeze tons of food and use the freezer as an extension of the fridge — keeping things like cooked grains, soup, stock, stew, fritters, turnovers, meatballs, casseroles, and more — in…
Braised Beef, Taco Tuesday, and How To Switch Gears – A Month of Meat, Week One
This was the first week of my ButcherBox so there were MANY frozen treasures to choose from. We had some broccoli that needed cooking, and there was about a cup of ground polenta malingering in the pantry that needed to go. So knowing all this, here’s how our week played…
A Month of Meat – A Four-Part Series on Planning and Cooking a ButcherBox for Your Family
How Meal Planning and ButcherBox Collided in My Kitchen Hello from the frontlines of family dinner! As a parent to two school-aged boys, I know from experience that getting healthy meals on the table during the weekday rush can feel like an insurmountable feat. As any working parent will tell…