55KRC January 2, 2011 — Tricia Callahan of onceamonthmom.com

Foodies throughout the worldwide web feel like Tricia Callahan’s their neighbor. Her recipe book is an open one, and her once-a-month-cooking strategy is up for grabs…
On this snow-capped Wednesday, when 49 of the 50 United States are washed in white, I cannot think of a better time to share with you a lovely little food-focused podcast. Besides being the coziest way to spend a lazy hour under a heated blanket, What’s HOT with Molly, Kelly, and Caitlin is the perfect way to catch up on all the good news and good stuff happening in food online and around town.

Take, for example, our recent show with the once a month mom herself, Tricia Callahan. She may call Dayton home, but foodies throughout the worldwide web feel like she’s their neighbor. Her recipe book is an open one, and her once-a-month-cooking strategy is up for grabs. In fact, on her site Tricia lays out step-by-step, recipe-by-recipe, ingredient-by-ingredient, how to feed your entire family by cooking once every thirty days. She calls it “freezer cooking” and she absolutely stunned me and Molly and Caitlin with the savings, community building, and healthful habits that may be derived from making it happen.

I’ll get you started on this life-changing habit in the words of Tricia herself:

• 1. Find a partner in crime.
• 2. Clean up and clear out your freezer.
• 3. Go get a menu plan (put it together yourself, or choose from Tricia’s catalog).
• 4. Commit.
• 5. Get the right tools and equipment.

For the rest of the scoop you know you’ve got to listen to the podcast of the show. And then the next time we are bamboozled by Mother Nature, while the rest of the world is scrambling for canned goods and duct tape, you can spend another hour under the electric blanket knowing dinner’s already in the freezer.