Meatless March

Still spending almost all our time at home with each other, my family planned a Not-Christmas celebration for last Saturday to break up the monotony of most of our days since March. We have taken to giving our real holidays themes over the past couple of years, and so we came up with one for Not-Christmas too: the theme was British Christmas. We applied this theme to decorations, outfits, activities, and the food. A neighbor kindly lent us an artificial Christmas tree and a couple of wooden reindeer, and my backup dancer and I created some bunting. We staged it all in the basement, both because it's cool and we'd be in winter garb, but also because we don't spend much time down there, so if we used our imagination and squinted a bit, it felt like going somewhere different. The day began, of course, with opening presents in our pajamas. This we did with Christmas carols playing and a roaring fire playing on the TV. It was very festive, and there was much delight with gifts l...

Like fried rice , omelettes, quiche , wraps, and grain bowls , "Paleo Sweet Potato Toasts" (Paleo Paparazzi)* are a great way to use up whatever leftover food is lurking in your fridge. And they're wonderful. You just slice up and cook some sweet potato, and load up the slices with whatever toppings you have handy. Yesterday, I cut up mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes and a clove or two of garlic, and cut the kernels off an ear of corn. I fried these things briefly and then coated them in a layer of two beaten eggs, such that I made an ad hoc frittata. Then I slathered mayonnaise onto my toasted sweet potato, and added the cut-up frittata on top. It was a very satisfying meal. We're now two weeks into my backup dancer's "summer vacation" from "school." Given that COVID-19 is still rampaging across the country, we did not feel good about sending her to the approximately 86 summer camps we signed her up for waaaaay back...