I’ve tried to do regular meal plans every now and then and never really even make it a full week. I think it has more to do with my scatterbrained nature than anything else. Are any of you successfully meal … Continue reading Weekly Eats, Sunday Food Thread 11/27

This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving in the U.S. There’s a lot of baggage related to this holiday, and rightly so, but for my immediate family this has morphed into our big yearly get together. It’s sort of a small gathering … Continue reading Feast Day! Sunday Food Thread 11/20

I had a birthday recently and it just so happened that all the food consumed for the birthday dinner was round. There were really only two dishes, a pizza (not the one in the header picture) and a lemon souffle … Continue reading Round Food Sunday Food Thread 11/13

Getting to be really good bread and soup weather up by me. What’s your go-to fall meals? Southern hemisphere ‘cados what kind of early crops are looking good to you? Header image credit- https://orraas-hikk.blogspot.com/2021/05/mushroom-soup-and-garlic-bread-flo-food.html Continue reading Fall Foods Sunday Food Thread 11/6

Oh crap! Too much going on in my life this week and I totally forgot to do a thread for today so let’s talk candy (again)! Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 10/30 Eats all the Candy the Day Before Halloween

Today is the day my nephew gets married and it’s a big event. But besides all the trappings and dressing up let’s talk about what really matters, the food. There was a check box on our RSVP to select your … Continue reading Sunday Food Thread Attends a Wedding, 10/23

What’ve you been eating lately?Homemade pizzas, soups, and salads around here. Continue reading What’s on your plate? Sunday Food Thread 10/16

My sister in-law and my nephew are in town to run the Chicago marathon tomorrow (I’m writing this on Saturday morning). We have plans for a carb heavy lunch at a really great little Italian place. They’ll go on to … Continue reading Sunday Food Thread is Carb Loading 10/9

Anyone pre-gaming Halloween candy? Got a favorite? Continue reading Spooky Sunday Food Thread 10/2

I’m topicless today so let’s have a smörgasbord! Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 9/25

Hey it’s my mother’s 90th birthday today! I’m going to eat ice cream with her. Eat well, Avocados! Continue reading Free For All Sunday Food Thread 9/18

Not really about bloody foods (unless you want to talk about that), I donated blood yesterday and got really tired in the evening. Wondering if there are any foods that might help me rebuild my supply I took to the … Continue reading Bloody Sunday Food Thread 9/11

So tomorrow is Labor Day (US) and the unofficial end of summer. We’ve been invited to a friend’s house for dinner but as far as I know it’s just two couples so won’t be some wang dang doodle of a … Continue reading Oh yeah, it’s some sort of U.S. holiday this weekend Sunday Food Thread 9/4

We had croquettes for dinner tonight. A bunch of random veggies that were leftover from prepping other dinners earlier in the week were combined with potatoes and made into balls. Those were then battered and deep fried then served on … Continue reading Croquettes, Sunday Food Thread 8/28

So we have all kinds of food in the fridge and pantry, some really nice fresh peaches and corn from the farmers’ market, and I can’t decide what to eat. Faced with this embarrasment of riches I turn to the … Continue reading Toasty! Sunday Food Thread 8/21

There’s a small coffee shop inside a magazine/bookstore on Chicago’s northwest side that specializes in handmade chocolate truffles. If you order a coffee, I recommend the Sumatra, you get a truffle on the side. You can also buy boxes of … Continue reading Chocolate Truffle Sunday Food Thread 8/14

While trying to come up with a topic for today’s food thread I googled “August food holidays” and found this website. It tells me today is National Raspberries and Cream Day. If I come across some good fresh raspberries I … Continue reading Raspberries and Cream Food Thread 8/7

Going to a picnic today, going to eat some burgers, chips and pie…and probably some incidental bugs. What are you eating this week? Continue reading Picnic Today! Sunday Food Thread 7/31

Free-for-all Food Thread!!! Continue reading I’m hungry and I don’t know what to eat. Sunday Food Thread 7/24

In our house it’s very likely that we’ll be having pizza again. Using sourdough to make pizza dough is yielding a lot of dough! Luckily it’s really good and we have it down to about 225g per dough to make … Continue reading What’s for dinner tonight? Sunday Food Thread 7/17