Two Ladies and a What?

The concept:

Alina's New Year's resolution: Cook more healthy meals. 

Marissa's New Year's resolution: Do more meal planning.

Marissa's lightbulb moment: “Hey, I have an idea! Let’s make double portions of a healthy recipe once per week and swap the leftovers!”

Genious! Half the effort and twice the healthy! And thus, Two Ladies and a Ladle was born.

Healthy recipes, always rated on taste, health and ease of prep. Oh, and did we mention that our husbands are the taste judges?

Who we are:

Alina has been blissfully married for just over two years to Adam. She enjoys quality time with friends, garage sales, snuggling with her kitty Kenny, reading her Nook, and partially completing gobs of DIY projects. She works full time for a software company in Madison. To fit into her lifestyle, a healthy meal must be finger-licking good and easy to prepare.

Marissa is a wife of a handsome man and a mother of a little peanut who is 7 months old as of the start of this blog. She is passionate about Spanish, crafts, sewing, cloth diapering, attachment parenting, crock-pot cooking, running, Catholicism, and many other mom-type things. She loves Alina's enthusiasm for life, her spontaneity, and how she'll go garage sale shopping at the drop of a hat.

The rating scales:

TASTE:

1 ladle: Was that food? à 3 ladles: Yeah, I’d eat it again. à 5 ladles: That just blew my culinary mind!

HEALTH:

1 ladle: Chocolate cake à 3 ladles: Bread and water à  5 ladles: A steaming plate of vegetables

EASE OF PREP:

1 ladle: Culinary masters only! à 3 ladles: I could whip this up weekly.  à 5 ladles: If you know how to eat, you can make this.