Clean Eating Machines

This afternoon I spent a few hours making some lunch/dinner options for myself. The H has a short business trip this week, so I made this cu...

I didn't really plan it, but this afternoon I did a giant amount of food prep while the little guy napped. It started with a trip to the...

I just now realized that I entirely skipped over Wednesday in my "mini meal plan" post. I must have really been lacking inspirati...

Seriously good (the little guy ate two helpings!). Seriously non-photogenic. I'm not really sure what led me to purchase adzuki beans,...

Score another win for Branny Boils Over . As I was wracking my brain to come up with a meal plan for the week, I scooted over to my Google R...

Earlier this week I *finally* buckled down and made this recipe that has been on my to-try list for several months. The combination of cocon...

Also known as, "How to make a week's worth of lunches and clear out some leftovers at the same time"... Last Tuesday before...

It's ugly (whoop whoop!) it's ugly!  Told ya:  Oh, and delicious. This was our token slow-cooker meal for the week, assembled ...

This recipe originally looked like this , but of course I made some modifications. Below is what I ended up with. Sorry, no pic (unless I up...

OK so really I've been "harvesting" the beans here and there since they started springing up, but I finally had too many to ke...

This is one of the tastiest, no-cook meals I've made in a long time. For the minimal effort that goes into it, the flavor return is imme...

Check it out! Our beans are GROWING! After about 7 weeks since I planted them , we have big, beautiful, sweet green beans right in our own y...

I think this is either Week 4 or Week 5; I kind of lost track when I forgot to take pictures one Friday. The important thing is that we have...

Poor beans. They had to deal with a lot last week--massive downpours, undrained pots, brutal heat and humidity. Well, maybe they liked that ...

I felt like a Sesame Street character as we sat down to dinner tonight, pointedly showing the little guy that his dinner was B asmati rice, ...

This is the first weekly update (originally I'd said two weeks, but things moved faster than I expected) on my bean experiment. My mothe...