Oh look, Week 2 of Friday Recipe Roundup came and went and I didn't post! I promise I have a good excuse...which will, in the short-term, be my excuse for all the things that will surely fall to the wayside between now and June: on very short notice I have started a temporary, full-time gig which is taking priority over, well, everything besides la famille. Mostly because I haven't worked full-time since I was pregnant with Babygirl, and those muscles are tight, and also because I'm psyched about the gig and I just want to bring it, you know? But...first days being what they are (um, ... [READ MORE]
Friday Recipe Roundup
March 12, 2016 by Leave a Comment
It's Friday night, and my husband is off to his Fantasy Baseball draft (do you capitalize Fantasy Baseball? le hmmmm). Anyway, this was fine with me because a) I totally get his need for a virtual escape and b) the kids were exhausted and went to sleep without a fight and c) I was way jazzed to watch Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Deux...except that d) it's only available for pre-order and my TV picture is all screwed up because, kids + remotes. So instead I am reminded that my dear girlfriend the other day recommended I start doing a Friday Recipe Roundup on Less on the Floor. She said ... [READ MORE]
GIVEAWAY with Sheet Pan Suppers & Workman Publishing
February 26, 2016 by Leave a Comment
If there is one topic my mom-friends and I can talk about ad nauseum it's what to make for dinner. And how to find the time: time to shop, time to plan, time to cook. When the whole family rolls home at 6pm (from work, from after-school care, from soccer practice and swim lessons and tutors and therapy and any of the other slew of things we all do in a day -- I mean, how do we do it??)...then there is the dinner to think of. Most of my friends are avid home cooks, like me, and so we recipe-swap and share Pinterest boards and anything -- ANYTHING -- to make the process of feeding our ... [READ MORE]
Making Cake out of Beans (because we do crazy things like that in San Francisco)
February 19, 2016 by Leave a Comment
On Saturday my sister and her girls came to town for the day (they live about 90 minutes north of here, on a bucolic hilltop in Santa Rosa). We took a chilly morning walk along the Embarcadero with our strollers and ended up at the South Beach Marina playground for a spell, where Babygirl and my older niece took turns trying to get injured on the merry-go-round (aka, the Wheel of Pain and Tears). My brother-in-law would be working for the next, oooh, twelve hours or so, and like any self-respecting mother of two toddlers facing an entire day of activity planning solo, my sister looked ... [READ MORE]
Some Thoughts on Weeknight Dinners, Recipes, and Too Much Parsley
December 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
I love my Cusinart Mini-Prep. It's red. It's been a long time since I posted recipes on Less on the Floor, which is something I used to do quite a bit. But if I see one more recipe for leftover turkey hash I'm going to start crying, so I feel compelled to counter the "creative use of leftovers" trend with some utterly non-holiday fare. This week or two is kind of a funny tween-time between Thanksgiving and the Mad Christmas Rush. It's become part of the rhythm of the year, then, that my husband and I tend to hunker down in early December, to regroup as a family and maintain some ... [READ MORE]
Green Goddess Dressing and Mac and Cheese
November 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
My first year out of college I was a Kindergarten teaching assistant at an all-girls' school in San Francisco (which also happened to be my alma mater). It was a job I landed somewhat by default, the result of being an alumna, and of having chased love and family over a budding career on the NYC magazine publishing scene. (There was no magazine publishing scene in San Francisco in the early 2000s; there was a tech scene. This lover of print had no West Coast prospects.) That said, in retrospect it was a beautiful year of self-discovery, in large part because of the amount of free time my ... [READ MORE]
Perfect
November 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
My husband's favorite month is October, and for the longest time I thought mine was too. But strangely, I woke on November 1, 2014 feeling more optimistic than I have in months. While LittleMan and Babygirl staggered through the morning-after-Halloween in their various states of exhaustion and sugar-fueled bursts of energy (or tears), I blazed around the apartment, tearing down the paper bats and skeleton bunting, tossing out tired-looking pumpkins, and eventually re-arranging all the toys and purging yet more "baby stuff" that no one plays with or wears anymore. Practically whistling while ... [READ MORE]
