Sheri's Blog

Recently I spoke to someone that asked if MealEssence.com would have a "kid friendly" category of recipes.  She felt that a meal planning website should focus on menu ideas that kids would like.  I told her I would consider doing that.  After thinking it over I thought, "everything I cook is kid friendly - all food is kid friendly!"

In an earlier blog, May 26th – School’s out for Summer and so are the kids – I spoke of the busy summer schedule that mom’s maintain when their children are at home for the summer.  We love them and we enjoy their summer activities and no homework time, but after 100 days most of us are ready for school to start so we can get back into a routine, find a little breathing room, get the house back in order, and just get our lives organized for a while.

I love fresh green beans but I don’t love cleaning and snapping them.  I have been known to bring home a large bag of green beans and avoid it all week long.  Then just about the time I think, “if I don’t use ‘em, I’m going to lose ‘em”, I open the bag and find that they have rotted or molded or whatever they do in those plastic bags.  While I do like to save time, I do not like to waste money, and improperly storing food can waste a lot of money.   It is “produce time” when we enjoy eating those healthy fruits and vegetables and saving money because they are so plentiful.  Tomatoes fresh from the garden are the best but we need to properly prepare and store these goodies. 

Did I mention that I do not like the mess you make shucking corn?  We love fresh corn on the cob grilled or even just boiled but if you want to eat it you have to shuck it.  So, I have found it’s best to shuck corn when you bring it home from the store.   Store it in a zip locked bag ready to cook, it takes up less space and saves time later when you get ready to cook.