WRITTEN ON Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Grains, Middle Eastern, Salads, Side Dish, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Zucchini
ShareLast week I took Luke to a play date at my friend Kim’s house. She asked me to bring some kind of grain salad, as part of the grown ups lunch. I decided on bulgar salad with roasted peppers, zucchini and herbs, purely because it’s what I had on hand. For the kids, it was PB&J’s […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, January 30th, 2012 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Appetizer, Salads, Side Dish, Spinach, Vegetables, Vegetarian
ShareOn the way home from the Apple store today, I found myself listening to the Miranda Lambert song, “The House that Built Me. When this song came out two years ago, I got emotional every time it played, thinking of the house where I grew up. It was an 1800’s Victorian-style farmhouse, with brown shingles, […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 7th, 2011 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Chicken, Fruit, Grains, No really, what IS for lunch?, Nuts, Salads
ShareI hold a very special place in my heart for chicken salad. Growing up in Baltimore, it was a menu main stay for pretty much every occasion: bridal showers, baby showers, buffets, cocktail parties, tailgates. Name an event and a Baltimoron will find a way to get chicken salad on the menu. The perennial favorites […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Bacon, Corn, Salads, Side Dish, Vegetables
ShareGrowing up, my mom never made us peas. She was still scarred from her pea-filled youth. We ate a pretty well rounded diet, and as a result, I grew into a voracious eater, willing to try almost anything, rarely picky. It’s one of the qualities I find most attractive in other people, because I think […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 18th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Beans, Fish and Shellfish, Mediterranean, No really, what IS for lunch?, Salads
ShareOne of the things I’m struggling with, move-wise, is the fact that we’ll now have this whole house to take care of on our own. That sounds horribly lazy, I realize. Let me explain. We have a decent amount of work to do to bring our new abode up to speed. It’s a 1912 Colonial, […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Appetizer, Nuts, Salads, Side Dish, Vegetarian
ShareOne of my favorite things about New York City is that it affords its inhabitants the ability to be completely spontaneous. There’s no driving, no worries about parking or the mall lot being too full. Your choices are not Applebee’s or Chili’s, by default (though I’d go Chili’s all the way, there). You might wait […]