{"id":9041,"date":"2013-11-22T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/?p=9041"},"modified":"2017-01-23T03:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:27:36","slug":"ask-me-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2013\/11\/ask-me-food.html","title":{"rendered":"ask me: food!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the Ask Me questions that have been submitted so far, I think this is my favorite.<\/p>\n

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A non-sewing related question–any favorite tried-and-true favorite dinner recipe?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why as a matter of fact, yes! Because sewists have to eat, too, right? I’ve been meaning to talk about food for a while, so thanks for the little push.<\/p>\n

I mentioned last week that we eat dinner together as a family every evening. During the week that means cooking at home, while on weekends we sometimes have time to take advantage of our neighborhood’s many fantastic, well-priced restaurants.<\/p>\n

Since evenings are a bit of a rush, between shopping, cooking, eating, washing dishes (we don’t have a dishwasher), homework, and a rather lengthy bedtime routine (ugh), the shopping and cooking parts need to be efficient. New Yorkers, for the most part, don’t own cars, so we shop for groceries almost every day. This means we can buy fresh produce, but we shop every day mostly because the average person can only carry just so much when it comes to groceries. So here are our dinner tricks.<\/p>\n

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ZipList<\/a>. Now that we’ve finally joined the world of smartphones, we’ve set up a joint shopping list with this app. I’ve linked many of my favorite recipes to our account (which is really easy to do, especially if those recipes live on-line someplace), and it’s extremely quick and easy to add the ingredients for a recipe to our shared shopping list. When one of us goes to the store the list is up-to-date, and items can easily be checked off as you put them in your cart. It’s not a fancy app and could certainly be improved, but we make regular use of it and find that it’s really helpful with meal planning and shopping and helps us to be efficient.<\/p>\n

Favorite recipes. Please note: I’m a one-dish cook, due in large part to our small kitchen and to the fact that I like efficiency and simplicity. I generally don’t make multiple dishes for a single meal unless it’s Thanksgiving or you call dessert a side dish. I’ve found a lot of our favorite recipes at Martha Stewart<\/a>. Also, S is a rather picky eater, so all dishes need to pass muster with her before they enter our regular rotation. Oh, and a lot of these recipes have Tex-Mex ingredients that may not be readily available outside the U.S. (Hello, black beans in Europe?) Also, I lean toward vegetarianism, but not everyone in the family shares my sentiments so I do include some meat in my cooking.<\/p>\n

So, having said all that, here are a few of our favorites:<\/p>\n

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