This blog did not turn out as expected. I am totally never on budget anymore. I find to really be happy two things need to happen 1) I need to have a food menu plan and 2) we need A LOT of produce in the house.
This week I am back to meal planning. It is so nice. I do a lot more dishes. But it is nice to know there is a plan because I usually do it.
I love food. I like seeing what we eat. Seeing as foods come into and out of fashion with our family. But I am not willing to sit each time we eat, each time we shop and write it down. So what do I really want to do here? I am not sure.
This week we had the missionaries over for dinner on Monday. I made oregano chicken. Not exactly Jason's favorite, but i think mostly because the leftovers do not reheat well for lunch the next day. I made 10 cups of rice in the pressure cooker - not exactly sure that it is 10 cups but it is 10 scoops and each scoop is 3/4 cup dry.
The missionaries loved it and Elder Eli Pine ate several helpings of rice with the sauce on it. Then he commented about Phyllis, who was also on her third or fourth helping of rice. He said he never saw a girl eat so much. WE had enough rice left for two kids to have rice cereal the next day - that's it!
Tuesday I made chicken enchiladas with a cour cream and green chili sauce. Quite great!! I made it last week when Jason had a cold so he did not properly rave over it. Then I made it this week but I bought a rotisserie chicken and deboned part of it for the enchiladas. Jason liked it better with canned chicken. Didn't help that I missed some little bits of bone stuff. But that one is very good.
Wednesday we had aloo channa. I made it in the pressure cooker the night before. I have been working with mostly cook ahead meals because swim practice is from 5:30-6:15 so it is hard to get dinner made otherwise. Wednesday morning I cooked rice in the pressure cooker (the aloo channa now in the fridge) and steamed carrots right after school. It take between 8 and 12 decent sized carrots to feed my family. Plus we have salad. Salad is basic though. A head of romaine lettuce, cucumber chopped up and grape tomatoes.
I wonder if grape tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are really different?
Last night I made chow chow kootu - a chayote squash and garbanzo bean curry. Again with rice and salad. No hot veggies beside the squash in the curry.
Tonight the plan is paneer butter masala but Heather might invite us over for dinner and Wii.
A man and woman get married. Traditionally, the woman would cook. But surely she would incorporate some of her MIL's recipes into her own - that is how my mother got her potato salad recipe that is now our potato salad recipe (Jason loves it!) But with the Internet - I wonder how that has changed if one was to do a study? And the role of women is different. More women work. Eating out is more common than when I was a kid, I think - not just because we were poor. More men cook and help with domestic chores. We have more international cuisine cookbooks and restaurants - but is that because we live in the Bay Area.
We certainly eat with freidns more often than I think my family did. The Castros, the missionaires and the tervalons most commonly. Occasionally the Doiuglas's or others.
This week I am back to meal planning. It is so nice. I do a lot more dishes. But it is nice to know there is a plan because I usually do it.
I love food. I like seeing what we eat. Seeing as foods come into and out of fashion with our family. But I am not willing to sit each time we eat, each time we shop and write it down. So what do I really want to do here? I am not sure.
This week we had the missionaries over for dinner on Monday. I made oregano chicken. Not exactly Jason's favorite, but i think mostly because the leftovers do not reheat well for lunch the next day. I made 10 cups of rice in the pressure cooker - not exactly sure that it is 10 cups but it is 10 scoops and each scoop is 3/4 cup dry.
The missionaries loved it and Elder Eli Pine ate several helpings of rice with the sauce on it. Then he commented about Phyllis, who was also on her third or fourth helping of rice. He said he never saw a girl eat so much. WE had enough rice left for two kids to have rice cereal the next day - that's it!
Tuesday I made chicken enchiladas with a cour cream and green chili sauce. Quite great!! I made it last week when Jason had a cold so he did not properly rave over it. Then I made it this week but I bought a rotisserie chicken and deboned part of it for the enchiladas. Jason liked it better with canned chicken. Didn't help that I missed some little bits of bone stuff. But that one is very good.
Wednesday we had aloo channa. I made it in the pressure cooker the night before. I have been working with mostly cook ahead meals because swim practice is from 5:30-6:15 so it is hard to get dinner made otherwise. Wednesday morning I cooked rice in the pressure cooker (the aloo channa now in the fridge) and steamed carrots right after school. It take between 8 and 12 decent sized carrots to feed my family. Plus we have salad. Salad is basic though. A head of romaine lettuce, cucumber chopped up and grape tomatoes.
I wonder if grape tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are really different?
Last night I made chow chow kootu - a chayote squash and garbanzo bean curry. Again with rice and salad. No hot veggies beside the squash in the curry.
Tonight the plan is paneer butter masala but Heather might invite us over for dinner and Wii.
A man and woman get married. Traditionally, the woman would cook. But surely she would incorporate some of her MIL's recipes into her own - that is how my mother got her potato salad recipe that is now our potato salad recipe (Jason loves it!) But with the Internet - I wonder how that has changed if one was to do a study? And the role of women is different. More women work. Eating out is more common than when I was a kid, I think - not just because we were poor. More men cook and help with domestic chores. We have more international cuisine cookbooks and restaurants - but is that because we live in the Bay Area.
We certainly eat with freidns more often than I think my family did. The Castros, the missionaires and the tervalons most commonly. Occasionally the Doiuglas's or others.
