This Week's Menu
Though I have scaled back the housekeeping service, budgeted by basically canceling every extra-curricular and made myself a nice...
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Oct 7, 2017
This Week's Menu
The weather is still not cooperating with my desire to dig in to Fall food - 80 degrees Fahrenheit on October 7th?! - but I am continuing...
Sep 30, 2017
This Week's Menu
The image above illustrates a bit how I feel on some - many - evenings these days. L. loves food and seems to enjoy what is put in front...
Sep 23, 2017
This Week's Menu
L. and I are entertaining this Friday and, since I have more time on my hands than I have recently had (sigh, redundancy...), we are...
Sep 16, 2017
This Week's Menu
This week's menu is an odd combination of my wanting to visit local farmer's markets (to get excited about Fall produce and to say...
Sep 9, 2017
This Week's Menu
The "This Week's Menu" post is finally back (thank you to those of you who have been kind enough to email me saying that you missed my...
Apr 11, 2016
This Week's Menu
This week's menu is short and sweet because I am off to NY for interviews and Stubbie is in charge of feeding L. until Saturday. Freezer...
Apr 3, 2016
This Week's Menu
This week's menu is a bit of a mish mash between what is in the CSA box and what I am trying to unload from the freezer. It is one of my...
Mar 27, 2016
This Week's Menu
You can tell that Spring is officially here - lots of seasonal veggies have been showing up at local markets as well as in our CSA box,...
Mar 20, 2016
This Week's Menu
It's the first day of Spring ('Happy Spring!") but I am not sure that the weather (foggy here in LA), my body (full on winter weight -...
Mar 14, 2016
This Week's Menu
It is that weird period in seasonal eating when vegetables are all over the place - you have both the end of winter root veggies and the...
Mar 7, 2016
This Week's Menu
It has been cold and rainy for a few days now - rainy at night and in the mornings, crisp and clear in the afternoons - so my thoughts...
Feb 29, 2016
This Week's Menu
Though Spring is busting out all over and Beverly Hills is beautiful right now (with jasmine, wisteria, azalea, bougainvillea in...
Feb 22, 2016
This Week's Menu
As of this week Pity Party also has a Pinterest account. It will be used as an additional recipe index so feel free to take a look at it...
Feb 14, 2016
This Week's Menu
My child put in a request for lots of fish this week and I am happy to oblige since I actually have a freezer full of various odds and...
Feb 8, 2016
This Week's Menu
For some reason, none of the posts that I had scheduled for last week automatically posted. Not only that, they seem to have disappeared...
Feb 2, 2016
This Week's Menu
Between the holidays and the past couple of weeks of (for me) social carousing, my pants were feeling a little snugger than usual and my...
Jan 24, 2016
This Week's Menu
This week was a busy one socially and all of my suggestions as to what to cook on a particular day - pasta Tuesday, soup Thursday, etc. -...
Jan 17, 2016
This Week's Menu
I missed the Farmer's Market this week: L. had a sleepover and it was impossible to budge the sleeping beauties in the morning since they...
Jan 10, 2016
This Week's Menu
I came back from holiday completely stuffed from eating so much delicious food, vowing to start off the year with a few weeks of lighter,...
Dec 21, 2015
This Week's Menu
For years I saved all of the weekly menus I had handwritten in order to have a reminder of what we were eating at certain points in L.s...
Dec 13, 2015
This Week's Menu
As of this week, Sunday's Daddy's Choice has been changed to "Proper Family Meal". The times they are a'changing, not quite quickly...
Dec 6, 2015
This Week's Menu
Much as I love cooking, there are weeks where I am much less inspired than others. This week's general lack of inspiration stems from...
Nov 29, 2015
This Week's Menu
I went a little poultry heavy on this week's offerings but there were no complaints despite our recent surfeit of turkey. Beets were...
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