What we ate this week

Sometimes, dinner can't wait for a photo shoot.

While it may seem to some of you that I'm doing little else other than taking pictures of everything I eat, I can assure you that I cook (and eat) a lot more than I blog.

Which is why I periodically give you these "what we ate this week" posts. A lot of dishes we eat are really tasty and certainly blog-worthy, but sometimes life intervenes: I can't find the camera, it's getting late, we're hungry ... or I just plain forget to take the picture before we scarf the meal down.

So cheers! Here's to having a real life in which you eat, rather than style, your dinner -- most of the time.

• Baked pasta with spinach, lemon and cheese -- like sophisticated mac and cheese
• Artichoke and goat cheese strata -- a rockin' good meatless dish
• Celery celery soup -- another winner from Dorie Greenspan's Around my French Table
• Light caesar salad dressing -- greek yogurt makes it light and a tad tangy, from Jamie Oliver