Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
Monday is a good a day as any for a sick day. Not me, and nothing serious. The littlest is on day two of a fever and sore throat. He deemed me “his butler for the day”. Nice. Could be a lot worse, really he just want me to hangout and watch movies with him…
It’s been a long week, Friday took too long getting here. I am looking forward to the weekend followed by a short work week capped off with a looonnnngggg weekend. I have a whole lot of nothing on the agenda. Looking in the fridge I saw a handful of leftovers staring back at me. I…
In my never-ending battle with freezer space, I threw together a few meals this week from freezer finds. I found last summer’s tomato sauce and eggplant Parmesan. Combined with leftover fresh mozzarella on whole wheat naan, it was pizza time! I re-crisped the eggplant in a skillet with a little oil. Added some slice of…
Plenty of tomatoes and basil to enjoy this week thanks to the CSA. Layers of tomatoes, basil, finely shredded Swiss, salt, pepper, and a little drizzle of olive oil were packed into a pie crust for a very rich and incredibly filling dinner. Didn’t make a dent in the basil. I still have plenty of…
Pre-vacation eating can get interesting. Our fridge was just about bare, with the exception of all the goodies from the CSA. Hate to waste hard grown food. Layered them all in a casserole, added in some feta, topped it some Parmesan and crunchy onions (of the green bean casserole fame) and baked for about 20…
Vine ripe tomatoes, fresh picked basil — Summer eating doesn’t get better. Love the linger of the basil on your hands after you’ve picked it, the scent is so strongly associated to summer for me it just brings a rush of happiness. Add fresh mozzarella and those vine ripe tomatoes I mentioned and I’m grinning…
Part two of our small plates evening was even better than part one. I am a little hesitant to tell you about this one, I am back to cauliflower. Purely an accident, I picked the recipe not realizing it had cauliflower in it. No worries because this recipe from Plenty is the best so far. …
Hy husband kindly volunteered himself to join me in my new eating plan. He has been a good sport about for the most part. Somewhere around the 6th salad eating kind of became a chore for him and honestly I had to agree. But again I was not shooting for exciting, I was shooting for…
I am on South Beach. Not the actual South Beach, I wish. No, I am ON South Beach, as in the diet. I don’t like the word diet; it immediately makes me want to binge on horrid unhealthy comfort food. And perhaps maybe I in fact did do go that route the day before I…
My memory isn’t what it used to be. In re-telling all the routine recipes and meatless recipes I have tried lately I forgot a few. Jane at The Healthy Beehive reminded of one in particular I forgot. Or maybe I did mention it. Ever start telling someone a story and you can almost immediately…