I would probably eat anything if it was served on grilled bread. Â It’s in my DNA to love good bread. My father (who I might add hasn’t gained weight ever in his life) eats bread with every meal. Â Sweets, not so much. Â Snacking, never. Â I rarely indulge in bread. Â Sweets, sometimes. Â Snacking, it’s my life. My weight, let’s not discuss. Hmmm, maybe I should rethink this bread thing.
I don’t really care about any other day except Friday this week because I love Mexican food and I am going all out for Cinco de Mayo this year! Â I suggest you invite over a bunch of friends for a pot luck and have a fiesta yourself. Â Images above are in no particular order, I’m afraid. Â It’s just been that kind of week!
Things are feeling very spring-like lately. It’s not just the weather and the new produce in the markets, but we are finalizing summer plans for the kids and our family as a whole. Very exciting!
Here’s the latest dinner planner to help keep you organized at the busiest time of year!
Happy Friday! Â I haven’t done a Favorites post in a while! Â Here are some things I have been loving lately. Â Have a great weekend, friends!
When this Uni pizza oven arrived on out doorstep a few months ago, I thought my husband was crazy for ordering it.  It looked like an Easy Bake Oven, but for pizza.  I could only roll my eyes.  Plus, our “backyard” is actually a patio and I didn’t exactly see where we were going to put it.  But then we made our first pizza and I was eating my words, so to speak!  This thing is small but mighty and has made the most perfectly charred and crispy pizzas, just like we make at my parents’ house on Long Island, where there is a real-deal wood-burning pizza oven. The Uuni oven is powered by wood pellets that fill a small compartment in the back of the oven. Once ignited, the oven can heat up to 932 degrees in just 10 minutes and the actual pizzas take 5 minutes to make! The outdoor oven is made by a company called Uuni, and while it is somewhat pricey ($299), believe me when I say that is a whole heck of a lot cheaper than having an actually pizza oven put in your backyard.
I never could have predicted that cauliflower would become what it is today. Â Who knew that it would surpass kale in popularity? Â (Although 20 years ago, did you ever think kale would be a thing?) Â I mean, there is nothing that cauliflower cannot do! Â We can steam it, blanch it, roast it, grill, puree it like potatoes, rice it and that’s just the beginning. Â We can turn it into a pizza crust, an alfredo sauce, pack it into smoothies, combine it (or not) with oats into oatmeal, form the basis of a great taco, and we can even make a “steak” with cauliflower. Â Ok, maybe it’s not a real steak, but you get the picture.
Happy Easter! Â I hope you are able to enjoy a relaxing day with your loved ones. Â One of my fondest Easter memories is hunting for plastic eggs in the backyard and then continuing to find them months later in the summertime! Â My sisters and I also used to save a few jelly beans for the next year by tucking them under the fake grass in our baskets and sure enough, they were in perfect condition one year later. Â Go figure!
Here’s your dinner planner this week:
I am knee-deep in shredded coconut and almond flour, preparing for Passover! Â My mom is visiting for a few days and we’re having a great time, squeezing in some shopping, ladies’ lunches and museums in between cooking. Â If you don’t observe Passover, you can look at the menus anyway and see if there’s something you can make on Monday and Tuesday. Â Have a great week!
I receive a lot of requests for recipes – more entrees, more low-carb, more “kid-friendly” (I don’t like that phrase, by the way), and the most popular, easy. Â The term easy means different things to different people. In my opinion, easy means not complicated, something that a cook of any skill level can successfully prepare. Or perhaps easy implies very few steps. Â But what I have deduced is that most of my students think that easy implies “quick,” as in quick to put together and minimal hands-on time.
