Family in town (f&f, cooking)
== Written previously ==
My brother's is in town with D-- who is studying for a Sunday morning SAT and S--. My brother does not stop working because ... he blames being a partner in a law firm but i think it's workaholism. He also plans poorly, which drives Christine nuts. If it didn't drive Christine so nuts i'd be much easier. The happy news is that, yay, Christine is working on being more easy with things not going as planned. I think half the issue is my brother doesn't really want to be working and would rather be visiting but he's not representing it as such. I offer to take S-- as company since otherwise she's with men who aren't really into play time, and i also got my brother.
The visit from my brother is at a awkward time because he arrived the day my sister's in-laws arrived to celebrate her eldest's high school graduation. So there's lots going on over there. I've taken Monday off so i can put on a gather here while my sister's fam will be at the beach. I realize how much i have been happy to lean on my mother and my sister in planning. (My sister is EXTRA irritated with planning with my brother's visits, because of the imperious flailing.)
Last night was lovely though as N and S hung around until Christine was done with her evening chores and we played poker (Texas holdem') for a while. I'd nudged S-- in that direction as she bluffed her way through a number of go fish games a few years ago. She's a little more able this year, although she and i both probably stay in more than we should. I wonder if it might be useful to discuss odds as "if something happened once a week for a whole year and only one time does this particular type of thing happen" as a metaphor for the odds of getting a particular card
This morning has dawned cool and not-humid and i will go mow mow mow. I dried sage, oregano and thyme last weekend. I want to do something with All The Mint other than dry it. We have bread cubes for stuffing/dressing languishing in the pantry. An onion carrot mint bread casserole of some sort? I have a 4 oz mason jar with a mint chimichurri still in the freezer. I should like more of that but maybe i will actually follow through and use it if it's in ice cubes. I keep wanting to make more barley for lunch and know barley in a mint dressing would be yum.
== Now Monday evening ==
Today seemed like all the kitchen. Plan order of events so that i can get to my Dad's with everything by lunch, because Christine is exhausted of people and is on her third migraine. (So the meal i am preparing for them i am bringing over there.) To the grocery! NOTE TO SELF: do not buy the red onion (that was triple the cost of the yellow and sweet onions) if it's going in at the beginning of a shrimp boil because all the color goes away. Pick herbs and greens -- thyme thyme thyme for the broth and for garnish, mint to make tea, sochan to forget to add in at the end. Make a berry filling, make a sweet ricotta filling, make a irregularly shaped Danish with Pillsbury crescent roll sheets (like this https://laurenslatest.com/easy-cheese-danish/) with the home grown berry filling (heavily corn-starched). Forget to wash with the whey (drained from the ricotta - i figured it would be like milk). Add spices, celery, onion, herbs to the pot then cut up potatoes and cover with two quarts of water so the potatoes don't go ugly. Keep the trimmings in a container for stock later.) Boil some shrimp for Christine to leave on ice for her. Shrimp is almost defrosted by the time to go. Get halfway there and realize i left the (tofurkey) sausage.
The day was gloriously pleasant, and we cooked on a nifty little butane eye. D-- shared how terrible the accommodations were at the ACT test he took on Sunday morning with at least one student passing out because of the heat. The shrimp boil turned out wonderfully, and i collected all the shells to put back in the broth to make stock.
At home, i pondered the bags of reduced cost banana peppers and bell peppers and wondered what to do with them. I had zucchini i wanted to dehydrate into "zoodles" so three banana peppers and a bell went onto the trays with the three zucchini. I've stuffed two and air fried them -- wonderful with the rice made with the shrimp boil stock. I've made my loaf of buckwheat bread. The shrimp shell stock and then, whomp, i'm done.
https://www.wral.com/story/after-sat-site-found-closed-parents-concerned-act-site-at-st-augustine-s-won-t-be-open-either/21462253/
This says it went smoothly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNLCAnjp0s --HA.
== Now Tuesday morning ==
Anyhow, Friday my sister L and i have plans with M -- (brother N's wife) and their daughter S-- to go to the NC Zoo -- about which i have some misgivings but it's one of those giant habitat places so L-- says it's OK. I thought my brother was going to stay in the DC area with my father over the week my nephew was there for his summer seminar at Annapolis (to help him decide if he wants to join the Navy if he gets in to Annapolis), but Dad wants to come home (to his sweetie S--, i am sure). While they drive back, it's the local Juneteenth event, and i have bravely volunteered to help with set up. Then it's Father's Day, and i had thought of that as a Stay At Home Quiet day, because Dad would be out of town, but N is all about another gather. Hrm. At the end of the month i have a road trip with Dad to a family reunion pot luck, where this is family from the early/mid 1700s. *cough*
Anyhow. Dehydration turned out brilliantly, probably because it's not miserably humid. (The weather has been so lovely!)
post-tags: f&f, cooking
My brother's is in town with D-- who is studying for a Sunday morning SAT and S--. My brother does not stop working because ... he blames being a partner in a law firm but i think it's workaholism. He also plans poorly, which drives Christine nuts. If it didn't drive Christine so nuts i'd be much easier. The happy news is that, yay, Christine is working on being more easy with things not going as planned. I think half the issue is my brother doesn't really want to be working and would rather be visiting but he's not representing it as such. I offer to take S-- as company since otherwise she's with men who aren't really into play time, and i also got my brother.
The visit from my brother is at a awkward time because he arrived the day my sister's in-laws arrived to celebrate her eldest's high school graduation. So there's lots going on over there. I've taken Monday off so i can put on a gather here while my sister's fam will be at the beach. I realize how much i have been happy to lean on my mother and my sister in planning. (My sister is EXTRA irritated with planning with my brother's visits, because of the imperious flailing.)
Last night was lovely though as N and S hung around until Christine was done with her evening chores and we played poker (Texas holdem') for a while. I'd nudged S-- in that direction as she bluffed her way through a number of go fish games a few years ago. She's a little more able this year, although she and i both probably stay in more than we should. I wonder if it might be useful to discuss odds as "if something happened once a week for a whole year and only one time does this particular type of thing happen" as a metaphor for the odds of getting a particular card
This morning has dawned cool and not-humid and i will go mow mow mow. I dried sage, oregano and thyme last weekend. I want to do something with All The Mint other than dry it. We have bread cubes for stuffing/dressing languishing in the pantry. An onion carrot mint bread casserole of some sort? I have a 4 oz mason jar with a mint chimichurri still in the freezer. I should like more of that but maybe i will actually follow through and use it if it's in ice cubes. I keep wanting to make more barley for lunch and know barley in a mint dressing would be yum.
== Now Monday evening ==
Today seemed like all the kitchen. Plan order of events so that i can get to my Dad's with everything by lunch, because Christine is exhausted of people and is on her third migraine. (So the meal i am preparing for them i am bringing over there.) To the grocery! NOTE TO SELF: do not buy the red onion (that was triple the cost of the yellow and sweet onions) if it's going in at the beginning of a shrimp boil because all the color goes away. Pick herbs and greens -- thyme thyme thyme for the broth and for garnish, mint to make tea, sochan to forget to add in at the end. Make a berry filling, make a sweet ricotta filling, make a irregularly shaped Danish with Pillsbury crescent roll sheets (like this https://laurenslatest.com/easy-cheese-danish/) with the home grown berry filling (heavily corn-starched). Forget to wash with the whey (drained from the ricotta - i figured it would be like milk). Add spices, celery, onion, herbs to the pot then cut up potatoes and cover with two quarts of water so the potatoes don't go ugly. Keep the trimmings in a container for stock later.) Boil some shrimp for Christine to leave on ice for her. Shrimp is almost defrosted by the time to go. Get halfway there and realize i left the (tofurkey) sausage.
The day was gloriously pleasant, and we cooked on a nifty little butane eye. D-- shared how terrible the accommodations were at the ACT test he took on Sunday morning with at least one student passing out because of the heat. The shrimp boil turned out wonderfully, and i collected all the shells to put back in the broth to make stock.
At home, i pondered the bags of reduced cost banana peppers and bell peppers and wondered what to do with them. I had zucchini i wanted to dehydrate into "zoodles" so three banana peppers and a bell went onto the trays with the three zucchini. I've stuffed two and air fried them -- wonderful with the rice made with the shrimp boil stock. I've made my loaf of buckwheat bread. The shrimp shell stock and then, whomp, i'm done.
https://www.wral.com/story/after-sat-site-found-closed-parents-concerned-act-site-at-st-augustine-s-won-t-be-open-either/21462253/
This says it went smoothly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNLCAnjp0s --HA.
== Now Tuesday morning ==
Anyhow, Friday my sister L and i have plans with M -- (brother N's wife) and their daughter S-- to go to the NC Zoo -- about which i have some misgivings but it's one of those giant habitat places so L-- says it's OK. I thought my brother was going to stay in the DC area with my father over the week my nephew was there for his summer seminar at Annapolis (to help him decide if he wants to join the Navy if he gets in to Annapolis), but Dad wants to come home (to his sweetie S--, i am sure). While they drive back, it's the local Juneteenth event, and i have bravely volunteered to help with set up. Then it's Father's Day, and i had thought of that as a Stay At Home Quiet day, because Dad would be out of town, but N is all about another gather. Hrm. At the end of the month i have a road trip with Dad to a family reunion pot luck, where this is family from the early/mid 1700s. *cough*
Anyhow. Dehydration turned out brilliantly, probably because it's not miserably humid. (The weather has been so lovely!)
post-tags: f&f, cooking