This week Ben wanted to put a twist on his familiar chicken parm by making chicken parm sandwiches. Since he had 4 consecutive cheesesteak meals last weekend (not including breakfast – that’s what burritos are for), I figured a couple poultry-based meals wouldn’t be the worst thing. Ben knows the making of chicken parm like…
True Grit(s)
If you are from the Williamsport, Pennsylvania area, you know that Grit was a newspaper published in Williamsport for 111 years, before moving to Topeka, Kansas in 1993. What you probably don’t know is that when I was a kid living in Colorado, I was briefly a Grit “newsboy,” getting a shipment of newspapers every…
Sorted
We returned from our family vacation in the UK on August first, and then I immediately began my sprint to the first day of school. I haven’t had much time to reflect on the trip, but as you can imagine, food acquisition was always Ben’s number one focus. Our eleven-day trip included Stonehenge, Bath, Glastonbury,…
Sandwich Generation
We were driving home from my Aunt Wilma’s funeral in Virginia when Ben requested cheesesteak sandwiches for our BDW meal. As I was just opening my mouth to speak, he couldn’t take a chance on anything other than a yes, so he threw in tater tots. “Ah,” said Phil, “he’s gone for your Achilles heel.”…
The Soup Counts!
Is soup a meal? According to Kenny Bania and Ben, it is not. Whenever I suggest making soup for Ben’s Day Wednesday, Ben finagles a way to add items to the meal or to avoid it altogether. This week I made his suggested grilled chicken and veggie pitas one day and had him join me…
Reverse
We are on the cutting edge here at BDW. Most food bloggers attempt to create unique dishes that reflect original recipe ideas, but we are so ahead of our time that we instead tried to copy our favorite Lean Cuisine frozen dinner. I believe this is best known as the old “switcheroo” and can be…
Twenty-four and there’s so much more
Ben turned 24 on Monday, and he enjoyed a sustained four-day celebration. On Friday, we hosted a burrito bar in the park with his crew for a birthday lunch. His birthday dinner out was at DiSalvo’s and involved an enormous steak that I neglected to capture photographically. Saturday Ben attended a Luau dance, complete with…
Everybody’s Got a Hungry Heart
This week we made taco smash burgers, or at least that’s what we are calling them because they involve smashing a burger with a tortilla, and then flipping it over and folding it in half like a taco. When I saw it on a cooking show that I was watching when very hungry – dangerous…
Truth or Consequences
Unless there are extenuating circumstances, Ben is allowed to eat out for lunch once a week. Pizza with bowling doesn’t count, and he usually gets two lunches a week where he volunteers, so that takes him down to one day of packing a lunch per week, and one day of eating out. Sometimes, Ben decides…
Going on a Bear Hunt (and a game!)
This week I suggested to Ben that we make sausage rolls. If you haven’t been to the U.K., it is possible you don’t know about this staple of museum cafes and quick lunches on the fly in the British Isles. I have consumed many sausage rolls, but until I looked into recipes, I didn’t realize…