Breakfast: oatmeal with peeled and cut up mangoes. I also sauteed some vegetables, but I ate most of them and Phyllis had some. She and Jason don't like mangoes. Cress just loves mangoes. I think, how lucky is she - I didn't eat a mango till I was an adult!
Lunch: Cress has a fever and went to bed without eating. The other two girls had leftover oatmeal and Jason and I had black bean tacos. I made the black beans into taco beans only today. I also sauteed more vegetables, but this time I added Old Bay seasoning - which was okay.
Dinner: black bean tacos
Prep ahead: There was a lot of extra bread today at church. So we got two loaves of sourdough. Phyllis got a bag of six ciabatta rolls. She ate half with lunch and I sliced the others in half and lengthwise so they are ready for sandwiches this week. They are now in the freezer awaiting consumption. I pulled out the ham in anticipation of her not wanting peanut butter on them.
Since we got bread, I expect we will do a lot of soup this week. Soup and toast..mmm... So, I pulled out my two gallon size ziplocks of kitchen scraps and am making vegetable stock. I have tried before and find store bought broth to be worth the money, but we will try it again since I learned I can use scraps!! I also found some recipes recommending spices - including whole cloves, whole peppercorns, bay leaves and thyme. Yes, I do not like thyme but they all recommend it so I am giving it a try. I even added a dollop of miso paste - but I may regret this - we shall see.
Some of the scraps I included are carrots peels and ends, green garlic tops, wilted leeks, celery ends and tops, wilted herbs, a wilted celeriac, onions ends, zucchini ends, asparagus ends I trimmed off and the end of the butternut squash. I also chopped up a new onion and a head of garlic. It is done now and seems a bit sweet - like too much carrot, maybe?
Last weekend, Dai picked some oranges from our tree. I finally got around to juicing them yesterday. She was supposed to but she didn't so finally I just said, "Ok, dai, let's do this together. " Our oranges are a bit tart so it wasn't well received so I made a smoothy pout of it, cream, honey, vanilla and ice cubes and then made that into popsicles.
I also used up a lot of the vegetables I chopped up for use in breakfast scramble so I chopped up more broccoli and onions for that. I am out of zucchini.
We also made caramel popcorn using a different recipe - but it was twice the size of a usual so I only put half of it on the popcorn and put the rest in a jar for ice-cream or apple dipping or some such.
I also made beaker soup in advance - however some changes. I had no barley so we used brown rice instead. I used the new garbanzo beans. They don't cook as thoroughly in the same amount of time in the pressure cooker so they were firm but not exactly uncooked. I figured they would soften up in the crock pot - no, they didn't. I used the homemade vegetable broth rather than chicken broth.
Lunch: Cress has a fever and went to bed without eating. The other two girls had leftover oatmeal and Jason and I had black bean tacos. I made the black beans into taco beans only today. I also sauteed more vegetables, but this time I added Old Bay seasoning - which was okay.
Dinner: black bean tacos
Prep ahead: There was a lot of extra bread today at church. So we got two loaves of sourdough. Phyllis got a bag of six ciabatta rolls. She ate half with lunch and I sliced the others in half and lengthwise so they are ready for sandwiches this week. They are now in the freezer awaiting consumption. I pulled out the ham in anticipation of her not wanting peanut butter on them.
Since we got bread, I expect we will do a lot of soup this week. Soup and toast..mmm... So, I pulled out my two gallon size ziplocks of kitchen scraps and am making vegetable stock. I have tried before and find store bought broth to be worth the money, but we will try it again since I learned I can use scraps!! I also found some recipes recommending spices - including whole cloves, whole peppercorns, bay leaves and thyme. Yes, I do not like thyme but they all recommend it so I am giving it a try. I even added a dollop of miso paste - but I may regret this - we shall see.
Some of the scraps I included are carrots peels and ends, green garlic tops, wilted leeks, celery ends and tops, wilted herbs, a wilted celeriac, onions ends, zucchini ends, asparagus ends I trimmed off and the end of the butternut squash. I also chopped up a new onion and a head of garlic. It is done now and seems a bit sweet - like too much carrot, maybe?
Last weekend, Dai picked some oranges from our tree. I finally got around to juicing them yesterday. She was supposed to but she didn't so finally I just said, "Ok, dai, let's do this together. " Our oranges are a bit tart so it wasn't well received so I made a smoothy pout of it, cream, honey, vanilla and ice cubes and then made that into popsicles.
I also used up a lot of the vegetables I chopped up for use in breakfast scramble so I chopped up more broccoli and onions for that. I am out of zucchini.
We also made caramel popcorn using a different recipe - but it was twice the size of a usual so I only put half of it on the popcorn and put the rest in a jar for ice-cream or apple dipping or some such.
I also made beaker soup in advance - however some changes. I had no barley so we used brown rice instead. I used the new garbanzo beans. They don't cook as thoroughly in the same amount of time in the pressure cooker so they were firm but not exactly uncooked. I figured they would soften up in the crock pot - no, they didn't. I used the homemade vegetable broth rather than chicken broth.
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