Home-Cooked Sundays: Slow Roasted Salmon

May 15, 2014  |
• by Kirstin Uhrenholdt


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Are you tired of boring, overcooked, salmon? Here is a foolproof recipe for tender, silky, luxurious salmon and recipes for roasted sweet potatoes and a tangy cucumber yoghurt sauce to go with it. A perfect Sunday family dinner.

As part of our ongoing Home-Cooked Sundays series we follow it up with a recipe to transform the leftovers (although we think they should be called “makeovers” or perhaps “resurrections”) into a Salmon Sweet Potato Hash for a busy Monday or Tuesday night…

Farmgirl Tofu Chile Sofritas

April 18, 2014  |
• by The Family Cooks


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Our friend Dana Slatkin, who blogs as the Beverly Hills Farmgirl about healthy cooking and living, has embraced the idea of “Home-Cooked Sundays” in a recent post on The Huffington Post:

“The one day of my week that’s not booked solid, Sundays are my favorite time to peruse a farmers market, stock up for the week ahead, and linger in the kitchen. Armed with plenty of unprocessed ingredients and some tasty, reliable recipes, I recruit whoever’s willing and get cooking.”

Visit The Huffington Post for the recipe for Dana’s Farmgirl Tofu Chile Sofritas.

” … Sofritas (“sautéed” in Spanish) is a hearty Mexican stew that’s packed with chiles and spices. This hearty vegan version, served over brown rice or quinoa, inside a taco shell, or nestled into a breakfast burrito along with guacamole and cheese, makes a scrumptious meatless meal in a snap.”

Home-Cooked Sundays: Farmgirl Tofu Chile Sofritas (photo courtesy The Veganroad)

Crunchy Quinoa Crusted Chicken Strips

April 16, 2014  |
• by Kirstin Uhrenholdt


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Today we are going to start a new tradition. Every now and again we will post recipes to cook on a day when you have a bit more time. For us it’s Sunday (Yay for Home-Cooked Sundays!). The recipes will make enough for two family dinners, as I’ll offer an idea for transforming the leftovers into a quick and easy dinner on a busy night. We will call that Easy Tuesday (so you can fit in Meatless Monday).

Our first recipe, Quinoa Crusted Chicken, is adapted from our new cookbook The Family Cooks, and the way to turn the leftovers into an easy Chicken Parmesan is from our last cookbook The Family Dinner … So it’s very much a family thing…

A Healthy Week Begins … On Sunday!

April 15, 2014  |
• by Laurie David


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We need your help — actually we all need each other’s help!

Although dinner might be just about our only daily opportunity to sit down together, catch up, and eat a healthy meal, we tend to be too busy, stressed, and tired (you can throw in a dozen other reasons) to cook ourselves. The kids are shrieking, everyone is starving, and your fridge contains nothing but a few squishy squashes and a limp carrot. So what do we all do? We give up and give in to some awful food choices that someone in some far-off factory or fast-food restaurant “cooked” without one bit of love in their heart. And this is making us sick and fat and it’s killing us.

The solution is … drumroll … HOME-COOKED SUNDAYS!

The idea is simple: Use the one day of the week we do have time to cook: Sundays. Lets make it a fun bonding activity — and a wildly productive and delicious one, too. Let’s dedicate Sundays to the day we shop, prep, cook with our families (hey, everyone can pitch in!) and enjoy a great sit-down dinner at the family table. Lets turn this into a cherished weekly ritual.

To get people excited and cooking again, Kirstin Uhrenholdt (she is Danish and, no kidding, grew up on a fruit farm) and The Family Cooks, a cookbook filled with easy, healthy, and tasty recipes.

We included lots of tips and tricks to avoid an unhealthy week — including how to avoid junk food hazards in the supermarket, and ways that small and big kids can help you cook. We know you have good ones, too. So let’s share all our great ideas and inspire others to give it a try, because we know that Home-Cooked Sundays will guarantee calmer and healthier weeknights — and give us the perfect way to start the week connecting with our kids while teaching them a thing or two about health and happiness.

Will you help make home-cooked meals synonymous with Sundays? Share your ideas, inspirations, and best tips on how you prep your fridge on Sunday for a smooth week ahead. Send us your three best tips and favorite go-to recipe for Sunday dinner.

We will post ours, and together, we’ll make Home-Cooked Sunday the single best and most delicious day of the week!