Something's in the air

Something's in the air,
I can smell it,

The stockings were hung by the fireplace.

The nutcrackers were lined up on the shelf.

And the CSA farm box arrived!

This weeks had garnet yams, green onions, Italian kale, spinach, avocados, red peppers, sugar snap peas, grapefruit, pears, kiwi, mandarins, apples, and raspberry honey.

And it's almost Christmas too!!!! Yahoo!

Our whole local area shut down today, no school or appointments in anticipation of the big snowstorm headed our way. It never arrived in our little corner of the world. The Olympic mountains sent the white fluffy stuff north and south of us. We picked up only a light dusting this evening. The record cold temps remain with us, however, and have claimed their first victim, my big, beautiful artichoke plant.

To answer a reader's question, "How do you menu plan for your family?"

We roughy plan a monthly menu and then we ad lib based on what's in the fridge and our mood.

For example, Thursdays are usually pasta dinners. Today, we had wholewheat biscuits and gravy for breakfast, veggie soft tacos for lunch, and a Chinese dinner of potstickers, brown rice, and a shrimp and veggie stir-fry with a mandarin-ginger sauce. We used up some milk, leftover corn, spinach, green onions, garlic, ginger root, and bok choy. Yum!