I have found the perfect lunch: Kitchen & Love Quinoa Quick Meals. I have the basil pesto, jalapeno and roasted pepper, and mango and roasted peppers varieties on hand, and they check the following boxes for me: Cheaper Than Takeout. You can get six for $22. That seems steep, but it’s cheaper than the lunch […]
I Eat Things: Hammy Chickpea Soup With Kale
There are few things that hit the spot quite like potato or bean soup made with ham, sausage, or another salty meat. Recently, my wife made hammy chickpea soup–I assume it was from this Bon Apetit recipe–and it was remarkably similar to a ham-and-potato soup that is perfectly nourishing and perfectly comforting at the end […]
I Eat (Too Many) Things: From Shoney’s to Chez Fonfon
Shoney’s. It was a childhood institution when I was growing up. On drives to and from visits to family in Nashville and Alabama (from our home in Ohio), Shoney’s—usually the one in Elizabethtown, Kentucky—was the place where we stopped to eat. I thought Shoney’s had disappeared, but one has opened recently just off I-65’s exit […]
I Eat Things: Brats & Burgers & Fries
We’ve taken to rotating who gets to pick where we eat after church on Sundays, and during my wife’s recent weeklong trip I let each kid pick where we ate dinner one night. Here are some highlights. Brat Brot. I wasn’t expecting much on my first visit–I figured it’d be another overpriced hipster joint with […]