The best thing about weekends now is that Matt does most of the cooking. We made tuna gimbap. It wasn’t quite as good as what we get at our favorite spot but it was close! We have literally 98 more pieces of gim to use up so I think we will make it again!

For dinner he made chicken fried steak with gravy, mashed potatoes and glazed thumbelina carrots from our produce box. It was so good! We had never made it before but it was a nice treat and surprisingly easy. I had frozen the cube steak last month and it defrosted really quickly and was perfect in the meal. I’ve been trying to buy different cuts of meat than usual to try them out in case there is a disruption in the supply. I’ve never been to the store where they had nothing but something has always been missing. The rest of the ingredients are all just staples we’d have anyway.

Non-food related activities:

The fishing tourney in ACNH, of course.

We watched The Net (Netflix DVD) because Carl Reiner loved it so much but I truly don’t know why. We also rented Sneakers to make it a 1990s hacker movie double feature and that was much better.

Today was a two sandwich day depending on how you fall on the “is a hot dog a sandwich” debate.

We had mortadella sandwiches as planned for lunch then when we went to make quesadillas for dinner we realized we didn’t have tortillas.

We pivoted and thought we’d just have some noodles with whatever vegetables and the pork I had cooked earlier in the week for quesadillas. Then Matt cut up the pork and it looked sort of bluish(??) inside. So we tossed that out.

Luckily we had hot dogs and rolls on hand and some broccoli that was miraculously still good from my Aldi shop on June 17th.

Normally I would not eat mortadella and hot dogs on the same day! We still have some mortadella left for tomorrow (and we are planning to have sausages from the Italian market for dinner) but after that I think we need to take a break from hot dog like meats for a few days!

One thing this pandemic has taught me is the importance of having some easy things like hot dogs and fish sticks on hand for times like this. In the before times, we probably would have just gotten takeout.

After lunch I made some carrot top corn muffins. Matt has decided they are too hardy for breakfast so we are going to freeze them and have them with soup or chili some day. I thought they came out great!

I placed another Weis order. This way Matt can skip going to the regular grocery on Wednesday when I go to Aldi. It’s all pantry or pharmacy items and potatoes.

Non-food related activities:

We watched Proof with Hugo Weaving on Netflix DVD. It was a little odd but good. Russell Crowe was in it looking like a baby and the woman who played the grifty aunt in Rosehaven was the stalkery housekeeper.

Still listening to Faded Out. Joe Aguiar is the worst! He is really dragging it down. He says the dumbest things like that you don’t expect attractive people to do sociopathic things.

I’m going to drop off the magnets and ornaments I made and some magazines at my parents tomorrow! I haven’t seen them since February. I’m not going in but I’ll chat through the window.

Matt took the day off to take Lulu to the vet. She’s fine, just a check up and shots visit. He has a lot of vacation days to use up.

After he dropped her off he went to our local Italian grocery for some cheese and sausage and other goodies (it’s been 3 weeks since we last shopped) and had them make us some sandwiches to go.

It was weird to eat food that someone else made. Tasty! But weird.

The sandwiches were huge so for dinner I made some sesame soba with yellow squash and cucumber ribbons and some fried tofu. It was really good! I heated up the tofu (the pre-fried kind we bought at H Mart) and the squash then let it sit in the sauce (similar to this one) to cool while I made the soba. I had been kind of off soba for a while but it is so easy to make just two portions of it and it is nice to eat something cool when it is so hot. Since Matt isn’t going into work I don’t have to worry about making food that generates so many leftovers for lunches.

Non-food related activities:

Matt was going to attend a live tai chi class via zoom but they seemed to have had technical difficulties so he watched last week’s recorded class. It seems like everyone but him went to the in-person class today. We just don’t feel comfortable until there is some treatment and more info about the long term effects of the virus. People who get it seem to suffer for weeks and months even if it was a “mild” case with no hospitalization. Who knows how they will be in a year or if they get it again.

We watched some Dark season 3. It’s good but I’m glad they are ending it at 3 seasons. It’s so convoluted and the more plot lines they add the less I find myself caring about the characters.