“This family dinner thing is killing me!” — Sawyer, as we sat down to eat at 7:50 pm on Sunday (he’d declared the bacon an appetizer about 7) And so month two of feeding my family, feeding Africa, feeding my soul begins. It has been a wonderful — and busy — month. I can’t imagine [...]
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Week four
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged dinner, football, Thanksgiving, tzatziki, Zimbabwe on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.” ~ Alistair Cooke Love cranberry sauce. Why is it we only have it once a year? I saw it at Whole Foods [...]
Simple comfort
Posted in dinner, family dinner, tagged church, dinner, family dinner, soup on November 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
“Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living. For soup can do more to lift the spirits and stimulate the appetite than any other one dish.” — Louis P. DeGouy Soup. It is one of my favorite meals. I love the simplicity of the word, of the ingredients in a bowl with [...]
Who came up with this idea?
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, bringing dinner back, church, co-op, dinner, family dinner on November 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.” — Georges Bernanos I seriously thought this would be easy. I read as I was considering this project that the average American family eats together 4.8 dinners together each week (for full disclosure, I can’t find that statistic right now; but [...]
Extreme multi-tasking
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged Africa, dinner, family dinner, orphans on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus.” — American proverb Frantic today. Kids are home from school (teacher conferences). Deadlines like crazy. House is filthy and the laundry isn’t done because my housekeeper was sick this week (poor me, right?). Friends coming over for dinner. African soup (vegetarian [...]
I’m bringing dinner back. Yea.
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, creative coaching, dinner, Greenland Hills, Julie & Julia, rock climbing, rwanda on November 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman Fifty-three weeks of daily meals together starts now. Why? The idea for this blog has been a long time germinating. Three factors within a short [...]
Prequel
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged dinner, family dinner, rock climbing, tzatziki on October 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“I did eat with my family, so long as my mother wasn’t cooking.” — George W. Bush, joking in a PSA promoting family dinner time. So it’s the week before my blog starts, before I spend a little more than a year bringing dinner back, partially by committing that my family will eat together one [...]
I’m bringing dinner back. Yeah.
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