Sunday Kitchen Things [food, mostly]
I made it over to the grocery co-op Saturday evening in spite of everything. For some reason I bought sorbet, gelato, raspberry cider, and rhubarb-apple soda. I guess being exhausted made me crave sweet, fruity things.
I also finally resolved a household issue. A couple of months ago, the grocery co-op stopped carrying my favorite kind of dish soap in bulk. I love this particular dish soap because it isn't diluted out to hell, and I think S has come to appreciate it as well. I really hate cleaning products and lotions that are diluted out with too much water so as to force consumers to buy more product. In any case, it was gone from the bulk section, replaced by some other kind of dish soap that is vexingly weak.
The thing is, you can't order the good dish soap online. It is only available through the businesses it is distributed to. Otherwise I totally would have gone that route.
But yesterday while at the co-op I happened to be wheeling my shopping cart down the right aisle and glanced down at just the right moment to discover that I CAN still buy my favorite dish soap, just in a 1-gallon jug now instead of in the bulk section.
It might seem silly, but it's little things like having the good dish soap that makes everyday life just that much better. This stuff is the best.
Even better, if we use up 6 jugs of this dish soap, we can send all 6 bottles back to the company and they'll reuse the bottles and reimburse us for shipping. Reuse > recycle.
That's only going to take like 12 years.
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Not nearly as much cooking this weekend for Meal Prep Sundays. I made muesli and Dad's buttermilk pancakes, with some rhubarb sauce to use up the rest of last year's rhubarb. I made another batch of peanut soba salad for lunch to use up the other half of the block of tofu. One of these days I should really just make massive batches of peanut sauce and freeze a bunch, except I haven't yet found a recipe that I love that much.
And then for dinner, I made some pretty darned delicious vegetarian mushroom gumbo. I found a recipe for a vegan mushroom gumbo that has a clever lazy efficient trick to it in that you make your roux in the oven instead of standing over the stove for hours and hours. That worked very well for me. A bag of frozen okra went in, along with a bag of frozen green beans, celery, onion, bell pepper, and a combination of a handful of crimini mushrooms plus dried shiitake plus some of the delectable Foraged and Found wild mushroom mix.
I still miss being part of a CSA and having a random assortment of vegetables that need to be used up every week.
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Only 3 lab reports graded so far. But at least I have started.
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I also finally resolved a household issue. A couple of months ago, the grocery co-op stopped carrying my favorite kind of dish soap in bulk. I love this particular dish soap because it isn't diluted out to hell, and I think S has come to appreciate it as well. I really hate cleaning products and lotions that are diluted out with too much water so as to force consumers to buy more product. In any case, it was gone from the bulk section, replaced by some other kind of dish soap that is vexingly weak.
The thing is, you can't order the good dish soap online. It is only available through the businesses it is distributed to. Otherwise I totally would have gone that route.
But yesterday while at the co-op I happened to be wheeling my shopping cart down the right aisle and glanced down at just the right moment to discover that I CAN still buy my favorite dish soap, just in a 1-gallon jug now instead of in the bulk section.
It might seem silly, but it's little things like having the good dish soap that makes everyday life just that much better. This stuff is the best.
Even better, if we use up 6 jugs of this dish soap, we can send all 6 bottles back to the company and they'll reuse the bottles and reimburse us for shipping. Reuse > recycle.
That's only going to take like 12 years.
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Not nearly as much cooking this weekend for Meal Prep Sundays. I made muesli and Dad's buttermilk pancakes, with some rhubarb sauce to use up the rest of last year's rhubarb. I made another batch of peanut soba salad for lunch to use up the other half of the block of tofu. One of these days I should really just make massive batches of peanut sauce and freeze a bunch, except I haven't yet found a recipe that I love that much.
And then for dinner, I made some pretty darned delicious vegetarian mushroom gumbo. I found a recipe for a vegan mushroom gumbo that has a clever lazy efficient trick to it in that you make your roux in the oven instead of standing over the stove for hours and hours. That worked very well for me. A bag of frozen okra went in, along with a bag of frozen green beans, celery, onion, bell pepper, and a combination of a handful of crimini mushrooms plus dried shiitake plus some of the delectable Foraged and Found wild mushroom mix.
I still miss being part of a CSA and having a random assortment of vegetables that need to be used up every week.
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Only 3 lab reports graded so far. But at least I have started.
This entry was originally posted at https://rebeccmeister.dreamwidth.org/1457902.html. Please comment there using OpenID.