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It was early this year and threw me off a bit.
We read _A New Beginning_, and the chapter about Ostara in the Wheel of the Year.
No school — the teachers had the day off. No meltdowns, pretty chill around here. Once we were past breakfast, I took the hot italian sausage from Walden Meats that I had thawed, and started making a kidney bean, sausage, fennel, red sauce sauce / stew. I had it with pasta for lunch; it was really good. I think I put a bunch of celery and some bell pepper in, too. Only one more tetra pack of beans left in the cupboard! Then hopefully I will never have canned or tetra pack beans in the house ever again (seems pointless, really, when we have an instapot).
For dinner, I grated parsnips and potatoes and made hashbrowns. R. put panko breading on the hake I had thawed (also Walden). I cooked a package of snap peas from imperfect foods; I made a sauce with some of R’s simple syrup, some ginger in a tube, and lemon zest with lemon juice. It set up nicely, and I drizzled some of the sauce from it over the fish, after cooking it with the peas. It was all very tasty; there are leftovers, even.
R. went to the store. We were not sure how that would go in the afternoon on a Friday. While there is still no TP (and we do not need any for quite a while anyway), he was able to get almost everything else. They were out of the kind of english muffins T. likes, but we had one package left in the freezer, and that kind of shortage happens pretty often. The store seems to be keeping up pretty well on stock. I asked him to buy A. some vanilla gelato or ice cream, because she was asking if we could do takeout from Papa Razzi, and I suspected what she really wanted was their dessert, which means brownie and ice cream. Turns out ice cream and a cookie was just fine. This last winter, someone was selling frozen cookie dough in a box (preformed cookies). I already had a box of the gorilla cookies (which we finished off a couple days ago), so it was unclear when we were going to ever cook the ones we bought for the fundraiser. But we are now halfway through it! Minor accomplishments.
I love that the Pantry of the Apocalypse has finally gotten to fulfill its purpose. Maybe after this pandemic is over, I can finally get over my inclination to have a year’s worth of food around all the time. Ha ha ha ha ha.
I walked with M.
I had a nice phone convo with K.
We read _A New Beginning_, and the chapter about Ostara in the Wheel of the Year.
No school — the teachers had the day off. No meltdowns, pretty chill around here. Once we were past breakfast, I took the hot italian sausage from Walden Meats that I had thawed, and started making a kidney bean, sausage, fennel, red sauce sauce / stew. I had it with pasta for lunch; it was really good. I think I put a bunch of celery and some bell pepper in, too. Only one more tetra pack of beans left in the cupboard! Then hopefully I will never have canned or tetra pack beans in the house ever again (seems pointless, really, when we have an instapot).
For dinner, I grated parsnips and potatoes and made hashbrowns. R. put panko breading on the hake I had thawed (also Walden). I cooked a package of snap peas from imperfect foods; I made a sauce with some of R’s simple syrup, some ginger in a tube, and lemon zest with lemon juice. It set up nicely, and I drizzled some of the sauce from it over the fish, after cooking it with the peas. It was all very tasty; there are leftovers, even.
R. went to the store. We were not sure how that would go in the afternoon on a Friday. While there is still no TP (and we do not need any for quite a while anyway), he was able to get almost everything else. They were out of the kind of english muffins T. likes, but we had one package left in the freezer, and that kind of shortage happens pretty often. The store seems to be keeping up pretty well on stock. I asked him to buy A. some vanilla gelato or ice cream, because she was asking if we could do takeout from Papa Razzi, and I suspected what she really wanted was their dessert, which means brownie and ice cream. Turns out ice cream and a cookie was just fine. This last winter, someone was selling frozen cookie dough in a box (preformed cookies). I already had a box of the gorilla cookies (which we finished off a couple days ago), so it was unclear when we were going to ever cook the ones we bought for the fundraiser. But we are now halfway through it! Minor accomplishments.
I love that the Pantry of the Apocalypse has finally gotten to fulfill its purpose. Maybe after this pandemic is over, I can finally get over my inclination to have a year’s worth of food around all the time. Ha ha ha ha ha.
I walked with M.
I had a nice phone convo with K.