
Thrifty, healthy, yummy, easy: mash with benefits!
I will not have the cheek to call this a recipe, but I do revel in its genius each time I make it, and sometimes we rack our brains for meal ideas when actually something simple works extremely well to everyone's satisfaction. With January frugality in mind - for our wallets as well as our waistlines - this is a winner. When we were kids my dad was rarely tasked with making our dinner, but when he did cook for us he was always careful to include the main food groups in a way

Husband-Approved Stir Fry
I am in charge of all the food provision in our house - planning, shopping, preparing. This is because a) apparently I am control freak and b) I can’t trust my husband to do it. It’s not that he won’t. It’s that he won’t do it to my satisfaction. But my satisfaction is not something he could ever learn to achieve in the kitchen because it follows a pattern only comprehensible to me, by myself; it changes according to arbitrary factors even I can’t predict. I regret to say tha