Author: Liz

Recently, Ben picked up the phrase, “No Sweat!” But his version is, “No Sweating!” I’m not sure what makes it so amusing to take it from an affirmation that everything’s cool to the imperative, but it makes me giggle. We made Thai Shrimp Swoodles (Sweet Potato “Noodles”) this week. The recipe was super easy (No…

Though it is probably hard to tell from the giant slabs of beef we sometimes post, we have been trying very hard to healthify our menus. This approach is met with a certain amount of skepticism from Ben, but he loves spicy greens ravioli, so this week’s plan was an easy sell. We have made…

This week, Ben and I sought to use up our leftover turkey, so we chose smothered turkey burritos. We had an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family, but let’s be honest. The holidays are exhausting! We needed something easy. Ben’s role in our meal was limited to lettuce prep, draining and rinsing a can…

Ben’s request this week was for waffles. Where that came from, I don’t know, but Phil upped the ante with chipped beef. There was some breakfast-for-dinner escalation, and plans threatened to spiral out of control, so I locked in waffles with creamed chipped beef. Done. Phil’s mom makes delicious overnight yeast waffles, and I vaguely…

Every week we give Ben $20, and he decides how he is going to use it. Left to his own devices, he would eat out for every single lunch for the rest of his life, but we limit that to once a week. We are trying to encourage budgeting, and his caregivers have been excellent…

Indeed, Ben. Indeed. Sometimes, when he is tucking into an outrageously generous helping of something, or going for fourths, I give Ben the raised eyebrows. He always shrugs his shoulders and answers, “What? I gotta eat!” This week’s porterhouse steak was the culmination of Ben’s dreams, and the result of my seeing this new cooking…

All of you social media-savvy readers will know that Noodle the pug is a Tik Tok sensation. When his owner holds him up in a standing position and lets go, sometimes he just flops over, as if he has no bones. That’s a no bones day. Sometimes, he stays standing. That’s a bones day. A…

At our house, we’ve been going a mile a minute. It seems that events and obligations came roaring back to life after lying dormant for over a year, and I’m not keeping up. My pandemic school day is a STRUGGLE, like walking under water all the time. Everything is just so much harder than it…