Your seafood-heavy menus always inspire me. I love fish, and yet I find I really don’t eat much of it in a week. Going to try to do better!
Thanks! The monthly subscription really helps! But, we also have the option to pause it when needed if we don’t stay on top of it. Fortunately, we both love fish and seafood!
Hello everyone it is finally warm in Ottawa. I think it’s -1 Celsius today (around 30 Fahrenheit) so I am going to enjoy the heat wave while it lasts. Apparently the temperature is going to dip overnight then freezing cold over the weekend. I think I’ve already said this before but I am done with winter… We get a cold snap every January that lasts a week or so but this year it seems to be never ending. I’ve been really enjoying the walks to and from work though since I enjoy stretching my legs and getting some fresh air. This weekend will be busy since I will be going to a movie tomorrow night and the director will be present for a Q&A session after. Sunday is up in the air since our winter festival Winterlude starts today and I would like to see the ice sculptures and Chinatown will be having a Lunar New Year parade on Sunday afternoon. Both activities are outdoors so whether or not I go will depend on how cold it is. If I decide on indoor activity I may go mall shopping since I missed out on the Boxing Day sales. There probably isn’t anything left but at least I can check out the spring fashions while I am there. Onto my menu for this week:
Today: My take out lunch today is a salade nicoise so I will have another salad for dinner Tonight’s salad will probably include chopped romaine and roasted peppers.
Saturday: Off to the movies for a 7:00 pm showtime so I will have a bite to eat on my way to the theatre.
Sunday: Salmon caesar salad.
Monday: Chilled soba noodle salad. The recipe is from Cooks Illustrated and it looks like it’s behind a paywall.
Tuesday: Pancakes, probably a salad on the side to have some semblance of veggies for dinner.
Wednesday: Chicken zucchini stirfry.
Thursday: I have a film society screening tonight so I will have dinner out tonight.
This weekend I will be making a Moroccan Lentil and vegetable soup for lunches.
Hopefully everyone is surviving the cold and I hope you all have a nice weekend.
That sounds like a delicious (and ambitious) week! Are the kids old enough to help prep?
I’m on my iPad so it may look a little different than on another device, but here you go…
In the “compose” box, click on the Link icon (which I’ve circled in red). The popup window will appear. Paste or type the URL in the top box, and then whatever text you want to appear in the second box. Click OK and your link will appear!
In my experience, it looks the same whether I am on my phone, tablet, or laprop, since either way it’s in a browser rather than an app.
@chowhounddkennedy1, you can use truman’s clear instructions to insert a hyperlink with text, or you can simply copy and paste a URL into your post, and most of the time it will generate a neat thumbnail as in Madrid’s post replying to you. (To double-check, just look at the post preview. If you paste in a YouTube URL, it should generate a video that can be watched within your post once it is posted.
Actuals for the last week of January, cooking for 2 in MN. Where our brief respite from severe winter cold had us out for walks in lighter jackets - 45 degree F sunshine - record warms for this time of year. We’re back to snowstorms and cold, starting today.
Mon: Smoked turkey oven chimichangas, guac, salad
Tues: BAKED – whole wheat pecan blueberry muffins
dinner - apple/green beans/mock crab salad. Inspired by Patricia Wells recipe, omitted avocado, served on bed of shredded iceberg lettuce with naan bread on the side
Wed: BAKED Cream biscuits. (Marion Cunningham recipe) with Cinnamon honey butter
dinner - reheat Italian pie crescent beef hotdish (w/mushrooms & cottage cheese)
Thurs: Salmon, peas, (commercial) mashed sweet potatoes
Fri & Sat : lunches Hot Ham & Swiss sandwich, spinach/lettuce salads, Sunchips. Dinners - Cornbread stuffing topped chicken pot pie. Fruit salad.
Sun: (today) (commercial) Chicken meatloaf, mashed potatoes, Normandy vegetables. Dessert -
Rice pudding
Is that Marion Cunningham from Happy Days? Because that’s all I can think of
Hi everyone! I found a new patisserie in the area, and went with a friend yesterday. Potentially waistline changing. It was so good. We shared 3 different things and each got a sort of spanikopita/croissant thing to take home. My favorite was a croissant in muffin form, filled with lemon curd. Anyway, I am trying to focus on the positive, and this place is definitely a positive. LLD is visiting Lulu this weekend. My turn in late April or May, because I cannot deal with the weather there now. I am a wimp. Here is what we ate:
Mon: leftover chicken braised with brandy, mustard, smoked paprika over buttered orzo
Tues: wonton soup with baby bok choy
Wed: (frozen) fried fish tacos with cabbage and a chipotle lime crema
Thurs: carry out
Fri: solo; lemony turkey and white bean soup with spinach (Dinner in One). So satisfying
Sat: more soup while watching Rivals on hulu. It’s a hoot.
Sun: solo; haven’t quite decided
I made it through dry January surprisingly easily! I’m thinking February will be slightly damp but happy to keep mostly going with this. Hope everyone is happy, healthy, and well fed.
Famous cookbook author - the biscuit recipe is in The Breakfast Book https://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Book-Marion-Cunningham/dp/0394555295/
The oldest is but usually has her nose in a book. My youngest loves to cut up veg but can’t use sharp knives yet so is pretty limited, but does like washing rice etc.
And, I’m already doing some pivoting this week. Tonight’s dinner will now be Fish and Mixed Vegetable Stir Fry from The Woks of Life, because we need to eat earlier than originally planned (which won’t leave me time to flower cut my squid). I am also making a batch of Black Eyed Pea Masala for lunches this week.
Patisseries are my weakness and they seem to be opening new ones out here! Croissants are everywhere!
I just got Hulu to watch Will Trent, as Karin Slaughter is a favorite. I will check out Rivals next.
Rivals is good trashy fun. Think British Dynasty, with knowing jokes thrown in.
The pastries were really a cut above. It’s a good thing they are only open on weekends.
LOL re bakery hours . My favorite here closes at 2 PM Tu-Sat, and isn’t open Sun/Mon, making it harder to do spur of the moment purchases for us non-early-morning folks.