Weekend Meditation: It Doesn’t Always Have to be Fabulous — Weekend Meditation

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Blogging about food is a tricky thing. In order for something to be post-worthy, it usually needs to be a pretty wonderful and delicious thing to eat. If it’s not, then there has to be some kind of story about that. Or it should be a new discovery. Or have some meaning in our lives and culture. But we seldom write about ordinary, everyday food or eating. We don’t sit down at the table to an ordinary PB&J lunch, and then move over to the computer and blog about it

Everyday food isn’t always fabulous, or revelatory, or new. It’s often not worth writing home (or a blog) about. It’s usually just lunch or breakfast or dinner, plain and simple. And that’s just fine.

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What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of March 29-30, 2014

Happy weekend everyone! What’s cooking? We’re celebrating weather that actually feels like spring (if you close your eyes and ignore the wind) plus the conclusion of our first-ever Cooking Cure! How did it go for you? Even if you didn’t follow along all month we hope it was fun and refreshing for some of your cooking routines.

And what’s cooking in your kitchen? I’m making a big family lunch for my mother and grandmother and all my siblings; I’m making deviled eggs and torn between these, these, and these. What about you? What are your spring cooking plans?

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