Aw, thanks for checking in. My husband was unexpectedly hospitalized for a week (okay now, with more procedures in the upcoming months), so I’m catering to what he wants night-by-night.
I appreciate you!
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Best wishes to you and your husband!
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Greetings, People.
Spring is here. The daffodils are starting to bloom, and average last frost is 30 days away. Time to clean out the green house and start some seedlings. First off: spinach and Russian kale.
Outside of a few veg, making this a no-shop week while cooking for two adults in the PNW.
FRI: Fish and chips. Cuke salad.
SAT: Jacques Pepin’s souffle. Salad. Leftover focaccia from the freezer.
SUN: Old-school chicken tacos with the works.
MON: Potato soup with kielbasa, cheddar, and scallions. Salad greens.
TUE: ATK’s Hot Honey Salmon (gift link). Steamed rice. Cuke salad.
WED: Steak and Caesar.
THUR: Char Siu fried rice.
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You had me at daffodils! We still have a thousand feet of snow on the ground here in Ottawa. Well okay maybe not that much but there is still snow 
I envy your gardening endeavours and your meals sound delicious.
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Good to hear from you! Best wishes to your husband for a speedy recovery!!
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We are months away from that!
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I’ve got a dwarf peach blooming inside (protected from frost) and stinking up my living room. Blech.
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Thanks for including those links!
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beautiful, though!
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Still trying to help with cooking for 2 w̶i̶l̶d̶ ̶&̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶z̶y̶ mildly interesting adults in Happy Valley, with slowly increasing mobility. Woo hoo!
Last week’s planning was somewhat followed, but not quite. Life has a way of … well, getting in the way of plans. Nonetheless, we eat well at casa lingua 
Alas, no Sichuan jour fixe tonight, as I dropped the organizational ball. Next week, perhaps. Instead, another fiery Thai red coconut curry with black tiger shrimp, baby bok choy, snow peas & red pepper is in order, served with jasmine rice.
I have VD shows both tomorrow & Saturday, and the venues will be providing food. The place tomorrow is new, so I have no idea what to expect; Saturday’s brewery had us make our entree choices from their VD menu in advance, and I established that each of us had to get a different one 
. Firecracker salmon fried rice for me, shrimp & grits for the keys, prime rib for the bass. They better share 
Sunday I have band practice — a music-filled weekend, so to speak. Something easy TBD.
Monday I’ve been craving Tuscan soup ever since @GretchenS mentioned it here or in WFD, and I have an abundance of liquid gold aka chicken stock in the freezer still. Just need to get kale, taters, TJ’s screamingly hot Italian snossidges, and we’re good to go.
Tuesday / Mardi Gras is our traditional gig at the gay bar 
: oyster shooters, festive cocktails, hopefully some gumbo or jambalaya. Our last show with the child drummer, who graduates this year and is moving away.
Wednesday depends on just how wet Fat Tuesday got. Something to sop up the booze is my guess.
Thursday mabez that Sichuan jour fixe… we’ll see.
Happy eatings, fellow HOs.
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Wish him and you the best with what’s to come, and a smooth recovery.
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Kudos on your health journey, and wish you continued success!
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Do they smell of… peaches?
More like cat pee crossed with animal musk.
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Blech
I thought I had made a beet tart before, but turns out it was a beet stem galette – took me forever to find it!
Your combination of beets, chickpeas, and garam masala sounds good!
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The week leading up to Fat Tue/ Pancake Day is one of my favourite food weeks, right up there with the week between Xmas and NYD, and Thanksgiving.
It’s also probably one week I typically plan better than most. (Maybe not this year, though)
Today, Fat Thu, is Paczki Day in Europe, the day the Poles line up for Paczki. I will probably hit the closest Polish bakery this afternoon to purchase a couple rosehip Paczki and plum Paczki.
Tonight, Thursday, I am going to repurpose some roasted chicken thighs, some andouille sausage, and frozen shrimp into a jambalaya. Maybe this one posted by shrinkrap
I also have leftover corn on hand, which I will turn into a Maque Choux.
Friday:
tuna cakes
mac + cheese
I’m going to visit the Polish neighborhood on Saturday, to check out if any better Paczki options are available this year.
Saturday:
Greek-style beef meatballs
Scalloped potatoes
Sunday:
roast chicken, scrounge
Monday:
scrounge, might add some pizza
Tuesday:
savoury crêpes or savoury meat-filled palacsinta
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I noticed this beet and chickpea soup online this morning. I haven’t made it yet.
So all the plans went out the proverbial window and through a literal open door when I went down stairs to grab some frozen fish for fish tacos as the white chicken chili wasn’t going to happen (cause I didn’t have chicken and I didn’t soak the beans) when I found the door to the upright deep freeze open a few inches and lots of things not fully frozen anymore. I threw out 2 kitchen garbage bags worth of food and then deforested the whole darn thing. I now have a very accurate freezer inventory if we are glass half fulling. I also found a container of white chicken chili
Weds 11: They had toaster waffles (SK’s version of home made eggos) that were salvageable with ice cream which was more in the semi-fredo situation. I had a whole lot of diet coke and some leftover bacon wrapped smokies. Then I switched to spiked seltzer (thankfully I didn’t have to work today)
Thurs 12: found a package of home made lasagna. Extra cheese should help cover any freezer burn? Salads
Fri 13: Found a container of pot pie filling so I will bake up some biscuits and they can have those. I will have something else cause I don’t like pot pies
Sat 14: Store will have halibut on sale. Since the frozen scallops did not survive the purge (I don’t mess around with seafood cause I don’t want to see food twice) halibut will sub it
Sun 15: Probably the meatballs I originally planned for them while I”m at my meeting
Hope these plans go better and check your freezer doors!
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Ugh…. that sucks. We’ve had that happen too, where the freezer door bounced back open after being closed a little too vigorously. I’m glad you were able to salvage some food - our was all room temperature by the time I discovered it! I ended up buying child locks for the doors and it’s worked well to prevent recurrence.
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