In honor of the Nine Days, Michal Goldstein shows us how to do a meat-free week
Five-thirty, as soon as my husband comes home from work. I like to have a good supper waiting for him, but the poor man sometimes eats it while feeding a toddler or a four-year-old or both.
I have my moods with cooking. Sometimes, I get into my “good mothers make hearty-nutritious-homey food” mode and cook suppers which take more effort. But a lot of the time, I’m in a more minimalist, rushed survival mode, and dinner will be a quick grilled chicken, rice, and green beans. I make only one supper every night, and all the kids need to eat some components. I’ve found that there are two types of “kids not liking supper.” There are foods that some people genuinely don’t like, like proteins in tomato sauce or mushy-textured foods, and I can’t push those. Then there are the foods they groan about because they aren’t excited about them.
Most days I try to get out of the kitchen as quickly as possible. I think 25 minutes can work. Hard to do less with a family of my size.
I use brown rice. I also buy only whole wheat bread and use whole wheat flour in brownies and oatmeal cookies.
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