Breakfast: Cress had leftover rice, the rest of us had oatmeal.
Lunch: Phyllis had a bean burrito. Dai had cream cheese on bagel and Cress had a ham sandwich on the sourdough round slices. The liquid in the container with the pickle pleased Phyllis. I ate the rest of the turnip soup plus some cream cheese and jelly rolled up in a flour tortilla. For those, I almost wish we had smaller tortillas.
Dinner: Potato soup. I used to make it all the time and vary the ingredients slightly. We had a leek left from last week's CSA so we used that and a can of creamed corn I got ages ago plus the remaining potatoes. Now I haven't for awhile so I couldn't exactly remember how and think it was a little thinner than usual, but it was pretty good. Phyllis and Cress said it wasn't their favorite, but Phyllis ate two bowls anyway. We also had salad using up the last of the Costco lettuce, the grape tomatoes and a cucumber. Toast using the last of the sourdough round.
I loved that Phyllis had seconds of salad and Cressida had thirds. I broke out the ranch dressing Heather gave us awhile ago. Her husband works for Clorox so she gets freebies occasionally. Phyllis was distraught that I didn't have any balsamic vinaigrette on hand - we used it up quickly this time - maybe I should go back to putting it in a quart jar because spooning it out makes it harder to overuse it.
Future Prep: I chopped the root veggies from the CSA so that I can quickly roast them one night this week. Jason cooked the kale and mizuna together - it smells delicious. I steamed the romanesco and broccoli.
I really do need to do some shopping - but I used some of the grocery money top buy Activity Days supplies - so, I do not have the full amount. I have been so good about coming home to eat lunch though - and I wasn't always when I was doing yard duty. So I am proud and recognize that as savings. I also need to think about my food pantry - what is there? What should I be aiming to use up? I have some split peas but I don't have ham. There are ham free soups but I think split pea soup as having ham. But using them up is being responsible - buying ham to use them up - slightly less so.
Later: I am also making Persian Split Pea Soup in the crockpot for tomorrow. I looked through some recipes and had this - though I didn't have the leeks for which it called and am using green split peas instead of yellow and part golden raisins and part regular (I was just so proud of letting Cress use them up - dang!) Also, I get to use stew beef from our grass fed cow and it calls for 2 tablespoons of lemon juice but I just used the juice of one whole fresh lemon. I feel so good using fresh rather than the jar stuff - which, yes, I do have. We have timers for the outlets - which makes it easy, too.
Lunch: Phyllis had a bean burrito. Dai had cream cheese on bagel and Cress had a ham sandwich on the sourdough round slices. The liquid in the container with the pickle pleased Phyllis. I ate the rest of the turnip soup plus some cream cheese and jelly rolled up in a flour tortilla. For those, I almost wish we had smaller tortillas.
Dinner: Potato soup. I used to make it all the time and vary the ingredients slightly. We had a leek left from last week's CSA so we used that and a can of creamed corn I got ages ago plus the remaining potatoes. Now I haven't for awhile so I couldn't exactly remember how and think it was a little thinner than usual, but it was pretty good. Phyllis and Cress said it wasn't their favorite, but Phyllis ate two bowls anyway. We also had salad using up the last of the Costco lettuce, the grape tomatoes and a cucumber. Toast using the last of the sourdough round.
I loved that Phyllis had seconds of salad and Cressida had thirds. I broke out the ranch dressing Heather gave us awhile ago. Her husband works for Clorox so she gets freebies occasionally. Phyllis was distraught that I didn't have any balsamic vinaigrette on hand - we used it up quickly this time - maybe I should go back to putting it in a quart jar because spooning it out makes it harder to overuse it.
Future Prep: I chopped the root veggies from the CSA so that I can quickly roast them one night this week. Jason cooked the kale and mizuna together - it smells delicious. I steamed the romanesco and broccoli.
I really do need to do some shopping - but I used some of the grocery money top buy Activity Days supplies - so, I do not have the full amount. I have been so good about coming home to eat lunch though - and I wasn't always when I was doing yard duty. So I am proud and recognize that as savings. I also need to think about my food pantry - what is there? What should I be aiming to use up? I have some split peas but I don't have ham. There are ham free soups but I think split pea soup as having ham. But using them up is being responsible - buying ham to use them up - slightly less so.
Later: I am also making Persian Split Pea Soup in the crockpot for tomorrow. I looked through some recipes and had this - though I didn't have the leeks for which it called and am using green split peas instead of yellow and part golden raisins and part regular (I was just so proud of letting Cress use them up - dang!) Also, I get to use stew beef from our grass fed cow and it calls for 2 tablespoons of lemon juice but I just used the juice of one whole fresh lemon. I feel so good using fresh rather than the jar stuff - which, yes, I do have. We have timers for the outlets - which makes it easy, too.
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