Entries from April 2008

April 26, 2008

Tuscan Pesto Chicken Panino

At 5:50 p.m., my husband asked me, “Is there a plan for dinner?” And I stared blankly at him. Thirty minutes later, we put this on the table:

I will post the things we put on it, but I do hope you realize the point of this post is to show you how to [...]

April 13, 2008

Post-Chinese food conversation

So we were driving home after a scrumptious dinner at PeiWei Asian Diner, one of our current favorites.  Ian, age 6, had taken a fortune cookie to go.  He asked me to read the fortune to him, and it was, “You will become a great philanthropist in your later years.”
“What’s a philanthropist?” he wanted to [...]

April 6, 2008

Marinade for grilling meat and more

It was brought to my attention (thanks, Mom!) that we have never posted a marinade for grilling meat here. That is clearly an omission of major proportions which requires immediate attention. So without further ado, here’s a bit of rambling in general about marinating, and instructions for the marinade most frequently used in [...]