Recipes
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Dinners Last Week
I’m sure you missed my ‘Dinners Last Week’ posts during NaBloPoMo, so here I am back at it. Maybe I can give you an idea for something to cook, because THAT is the hard part for me. Figuring out what to cook. And like the meme, above, sometimes I have ideas earlier in the week, or even earlier in the day, and then when it’s time to cook, I think, “Couldn’t we just eat cheese and crackers? What about eggs?” I generally stick with my plan, because I have the ingredients. I like cooking, it’s just that by 5:00 when I get off of work, I’ve lost my verve. I…
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F is for French Toast
First, a thought…I have seen some of the participants in NaBloPoMo posting About Me stuff, since we are meeting new people. Accordingly, I have resurrected and updated my About Me page, if anyone is interested. I’ve added it to my sidebar, above my blogroll. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Since yesterday’s post was a repeat recipe, why not continue? Longtime readers are perhaps thinking, wow, J sure is stretching the parameters of this NaBloPoMo thing, posting repeats like this. But these are tasty, and it makes me sad to think you might be missing out. The story on this recipe is that it was a work in progress…
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E is for Eggs
Do you have thoughts on eggs? I do. I love eggs. Most of the time when I have eggs, I have them scrambled. I’m picky though, I like them scrambled soft so they are still a little wet. Add in some chives and I’m in heaven. I like them over medium (runny yolks, set whites), especially with bacon. I like them poached, though no matter how many times people say it’s not difficult, it’s difficult enough that I don’t enjoy doing it. I like them soft boiled, especially in a salad or something like that. Ditto hard boiled. The only way I don’t really like eggs is when they are…
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Dinners Last Week
Last week, we saw a drop in temperature. Monday and Tuesday were not hot, no a/c needed, but they were warm enough that I didn’t want to turn on the oven if I could help it. Wednesday cooled off enough for soup weather. Yay! Soup weather!
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Dinners Last Week
When it comes to cooking dinners, I am not a big planner. Since I work from home, I generally go to the store every day. The connection there, if you’re looking for one, is that I like getting out of the house and seeing people. I pretend I’m European, though I can’t walk to the shops, and we don’t have the lovely variety that we found in France (cheese shop, wine shop, produce shop, bread shop, etc.) Suzanne often posts her plans for meals for the upcoming week, which I enjoy because sometimes it gives me ideas. Here, instead, is the meals I cooked last week. Maybe you’ll see something…
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Peach Salsa
Trying to figure out what to make for dinner is a never-ending problem, right? Yesterday was hot, mid-90s, so I didn’t want to use the oven. I didn’t really feel like grilling either, and thought that crab cakes would be a perfect solution. There is a local store here that sells pretty good crab cakes, all you have to do is take them home and cook them. Usually when I make crab cakes, I serve them with green salad, but sometimes a person gets tired of green salad. I knew that I didn’t want coleslaw either, so I did an internet search on ‘what to serve with crab cakes’, and…
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Miscellaneous Monday
My company extended our 4 day workweek through 2023, so Fridays are my ‘me’ days. My Friday morning walks are more relaxed and meandering than the other weekdays, since I don’t have to be back and at my desk by 8:00. I enjoy them, but not as much as I did when I had Mulder to accompany me in exploring our town. Le Sigh. This last Friday, I had an appointment at 11:00, after which I took myself to lunch, where I enjoyed a lovely grilled asparagus salad with a delicious biscuit and a glass of Sancerre. I finished up my chapters of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for Engee’s…
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Friday Randomness – Catching Up
First off, Happy (belated) Birthday to my wonderful husband, Ted! I shared this picture last year too, but I like it, so I’m sharing it again. His birthday was Wednesday, and he and Maya both took the day off from work. I worked, but knocked off a little early. Maya took Ted out for breakfast, and then they went bookstore shopping, which is something we all love doing. They came home and watched Dune, which they both enjoyed. Ted had seen it when it came out, but Maya hadn’t. I worked for the first hour, so I came in too late and didn’t really pay attention. We went out for…
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Catching Up
It looks like I took a little blog break there. I’m back today, and have a few minor tidbits to share. First off, this is the same beautiful magnolia/tulip tree that I shared with you a couple of weeks ago. It’s downtown, and likely the next time I walk around the area, it will be bare. We’re having rain again, after a very dry period, which is welcome, but I imagine will knock down most of these blooms. Saturday morning, Maya had an appointment to get her hair done. I dropped her off and then walked around our little downtown for awhile. I like to explore, and went down a…
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Salad Bar
Do you really need a recipe for salad with chicken? Probably not. But anyway, here is how I sometimes serve chicken and salad, and I call it a salad bar. This way, we can all have just what we want, and nothing we don’t. I like my salad fully dressed, so I take my portion and put it in a mixing bowl, toss it with dressing, and then put it on my plate. Ted and Maya aren’t as picky as I am, so they just put some dressing on top of their salad and call it done. Here’s a list of the options we had this time. What am I…
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Miscellaneous Monday
I don’t know what to write about today, so I’m going to just throw a bunch of stuff at you. Here goes. Regarding the meme above, this is how I felt when we were in France last year. The names of the towns we stayed in were pronounced completely differently than they looked to my American eyes. Mougins is pronounced ‘MOO-jan‘ with a soft j, short a, and a soft n. Click the link to hear. Vincennes is a little closer to how it looks, VA-sen, with a short A. One of the stops on our train ride between Paris and Vincennes is Nation, pronounced NA-si-on, with all short vowels.…
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Meatless Monday – Garlicky Spinach and Chickpea Soup
Somehow I seem to have subscribed to receive recipes from the Washington Post via email. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it brought me this recipe last week. Since you need some sort of subscription to access the recipe there (it may be free, just sign up to receive their emails I think, which is likely how I ended up with it). (UPDATE: Clearly my memory is deeply flawed. I just realized that I did not receive this recipe in an email from Washington Post, I saw it on Suzanne’s blog, Life of a Doctor’s Wife.) I did a search and found the recipe on the PureWow website.…
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Meatless Monday – Kidney Bean Curry and Spiced Cauliflower
This morning, I was deciding what to make for tonight’s dinner, and I landed on a delicious Kidney Bean Curry via Smitten Kitchen that I first wrote about here. It’s really good, and we haven’t had it in awhile. In the recipe on Smitten Kitchen, she referenced a recipe for Aloo Gobi, which is another dish that I really like. With Ted being low carb, I had a thought, which was, what would happen if I made the Aloo Gobi sans Aloo? In other words, spiced cauliflower and potatoes, without the potatoes? Worth a try. I made some microwave jasmine rice to go with it, for me and Maya. Here…
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Meatless Monday – Now on Tuesday!
Today, Ted had plans to go to dinner with some coworkers from his last job, friends he hasn’t seen in ages and misses. That left Maya and me at home for dinner, which to me means pasta, and to Maya means vegetarian. I thought of recipes I’ve made before, and decided that instead, I would look at what we had already and make something out of it. I had just cleaned out the fridge and cupboard the other day, so I knew what we had. The result was a delicious and satisfying meal, and I’m writing down the ‘recipe’ for next time. Amounts? However much you want. Fusilli with Pesto,…
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(Sort of) Meatless Monday
I came across this recipe on Facebook, since I follow the New York Times there. It looked delicious, and seemed like a good candidate for a semi-Meatless Monday. I say semi, because I browned some Italian sausage for Ted to add to his, since he wouldn’t be having bread. Stupid WordPress won’t let me change everything below this to blockquote, so it would be CLEAR that it is not mine. I mean, I’ve done it in the past, recently even, but whatever. I don’t want each ingredient to be its own blockquote. So, disclaimer…everything below is from NY Times, except that I changed the title of the recipe from ‘Parmesan’…
