The Bunny Box

Wow, it really has been a long time since my last update. I won't bore you with the details of my life in the past year, but I do have a lot of recipes to post and catch up on. It's just been a busy year, and it's not getting better. I'm about to start an internship and my last year of grad school, so figure I'll be pretty out of commission as far as my blog is concerned. That being said, I've been searching the internet for work/school lunch ideas. Primarily, I've been looking for freezable options that can be prepped in single servings. Last week, I made a batch of Spinach Ricotta Rolls to send with the toddler to preschool and they were a big success. This week I plan to try out sandwich ideas I've found on pinterest, including cheese avocado roll-ups. In other big news, we tried our hands at some simple gardening over the Spring/Summer.  Way back in May we bought a large planter and dropped in a few carrot seeds. Then we just waited and...

Last week, as celebration for finally finishing my Big Scary Paper, we had a few good friends over for Bad Movie Night. The essential components of Bad Movie Night are: A very very bad movie Lots of alcohol to get through said movie Junk food Well for this night, we chose Sharknado for the bad movie. Friends supplied the alcohol, and I made a veggie platter because apparently I don't understand the concept of junk food. Surprisingly, the veggie platter was practically gone at the end of the evening (and I still have alcohol in my fridge and bag of caramel corn. Apparently my friends have their priorities all wrong.) Even so, I still had a bag of straggling vegetables that didn't get consumed at the party.  Come Thursday evening, I felt I should use them before they started to go bad. So the veggie calzone was born. I roasted all the veggies in a pan with some olive oil, s&p, and garlic powder.  Then I made my pizza dough recipe , cut it into two ...

If you've been wondering where I've been, you may be surprised to learn that a lot has happened in the last few months. I started grad school We bought a house. We moved. And that may be a short list, but I'm sure you know that can keep a person pretty busy. Well today I finally finished writing the Big Scary Paper (BSP) that's been consuming all of my time for the past couple of months. This monster tips the scales at 93 pages, and as you can imagine, I'm thrilled to be done with it. At the same time, I'm way too exhausted to make "real food." So tonight I indulged in a grilled cheese sandwich. A really amazing grilled cheese sandwich. With pear... ...and cheddar... ...and spinach... ...and cottage cheese... ...on thick slices of Italian bread... ...with butter. Because if you're gonna make grilled cheese for dinner, you better be willing to go all the way. So I hope the Fall has b...

In past years, I've left cooking for the holidays largely up to my parents and in-laws.  We'd split meals between our families and at most, I'd be making some sort of dessert.  Well this year, with our toddler's nap and bedtime schedules, eating out for the meals really wasn't going to be practical.  So this year, I decided to go it alone and cook enough food to last for a 3 day holiday. I wanted to keep things simple, but I also wanted to incorporate the simanim (symbolic foods) into my menu. So here's what I came up with: Round raisin challahs Sweet & Sour Gefilte Fish Honey Glazed Meatballs (served over mashed sweet potatoes) Sauteed Carrots and Leeks Roasted Beets Acorn Squash Stuffed With Brown Rice & Dates Apple Ginger Crumble Everything came out tasty, but there was WAY TOO MUCH FOOD for two people and a toddler. So we have leftovers (yay!). By far, the most interesting and successful recipe of the holiday was the ...

A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine steered me towards a produce subscription service called Washington's Green Grocer  (H/T to Diana).  If you've never heard of a produce subscription before, here's how it works: You sign up to receive a box of produce, select the box size and the types of produce you would like to receive ( Organic , Local , etc .) and how frequently you would like to receive it (weekly, on-demand, etc.). They determine which specific produce will be in each variety of box for a given week and provide you with a list. You then have the opportunity (up until the night before delivery to your area) to remove items which you don't want to receive and replace them with extras of the other produce being offered. You can also order other items at no extra shipping cost (though you must pay extra for the items). The box is then delivered and the rest is up to you. After snooping around their site for a bit, I figured I could give it a try, an...

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Heaven.... A while back, I saw something on the internet about making coconut milk whipped cream.  It sounded simple enough, and it definitely sounded healthier than making anything with Rich's Whip. ~shudder~ So about a month ago, when I started noticing strawberries in my grocery store, I picked up a can of coconut milk and decided to try it out. See that cool, smooth, creamy whippiness? I was pretty impressed with the results.  It whipped up well, it was perfectly sweet, and most importantly, it didn't really taste like coconut. I quickly came up with the idea of making a strawberry shortcake, and knew I'd want to make it chocolate cake because...well...I like it? Chocolate cake, whipped cream, and fresh strawberries. What could be bad?! The problem was that I just couldn't justify making a whole cake for just myself and my husband (because this is way too much sugar to give to my toddler).  So I'd been waiting for the opportunity...