My head is abuzz with trying to think about the things I need to remember for teaching tomorrow. I'm going to forget something, I just know it.

I made broccoli-chickpea burritos for the week. I still have a bunch of leftover kung pao Ficken, and I got some marinara out of the freezer just in case.

I wanted to try skipping the grocery store this ( Read more... )

No breakfast of the week yet. Maybe scones tomorrow morning. This morning I ate a bagel that I found stashed in the freezer instead. There are still two more where that one came from. Lots of interesting things lurking in the freezer.

Last weekend I bought three beautiful pears from the co-op, so today I made a chocolate pear upside-down cake, ( Read more... )

Got started yesterday:

-Rice and beans for this gringa forever
-Strawberry jam cake, from Rustic Fruit Desserts. This is the cookbook that brought me lemon rhubarb buttermilk bundt cake;
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More house projects today, during which I made several discoveries.

First, the bloom spike on the Sharry Baby chocolate orchid:


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I think this second stuffed pumpkin is a Jarrahdale.


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I had extra cheese and celery root left over from the Thanksgiving stuffed pumpkin, plus two more pumpkins left on the porch from Halloween. So one of the remaining two pumpkins is now in the oven, stuffed.

My cousin brought over carrots and celery, and gave me some of the leftovers, but I really don't ever eat raw celery. So that's all going into ( Read more... )

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Yesterday, after bathing Emma and vacuuming the house, as I got underway with some cooking projects, I realized they all shared the common denominator of requiring the food processor:

1. Breadcrumbs: we often have a bag of bread ends in the freezer, and a couple things I want to cook this week call for breadcrumbs. This was my most successful ( Read more... )

Last weekend, locally-grown cauliflower was on sale, so I bought two heads. I roasted them plus some potatoes on Saturday evening. Roasted cauliflower is so delicious that we then proceeded to eat maybe half of it just standing around and snacking on it.

Yesterday I turned what was left into some aloo gobi, and also made some chana dal curry using ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )