everyday eating during "unprecedented" times
For lunch I pan-fried some extra firm tofu and tossed with some seasoned soba we bought at H Mart.
We had some stew meat to use up so I made a quick slow cooker chili in the slow cooker for dinner.
We are trying to figure out what to make for early Thanksgiving, what to make with the leftover and what to make on actual Thanksgiving Day. I really don’t want to make anything but I’m outvoted.
For lunch I had mi goreng with leftover chicken, leftover zucchini and watercress.
Then I made coconut-caramel Rice Krispies Treats.
For dinner we just had leftover pot pie heated up on a skillet.
Then we watched the movie about the Kelly Gang (Netflix dvd) and it was really bad and we shut it off before the end. They really didn’t make the most of the book it was based on!
For lunch we had chicken sandwiches then Matt made yapchik with turnips, stew meat and potatoes which baked all day at 200°. Thankfully it was tasty!! Tons of leftovers too.
We finished Dickinson and watched some fo the French Agatha Christie show on Mhz
For lunch Matt made us smoked salmon open faced sandwiches with scallion cream cheese, red onion, cucumber and capers using the bread leftover from making shrimp toast last week. So good! I’m glad we’ve been getting smoked salmon, it’s a little pricy but we aren’t spending much money on anything else (besides the roof!!) and we enjoy it.
For dinner Matt made a biscuit chicken pot pie with the rotisserie chicken. It ended up becoming one giant biscuit on top but it was tasty!
We watched more Dickinson on Apple+. It is exactly made for us, I think!
I read an ARC of Crying in H Mart in the afternoon and it was so good! We then fell into a ‘60s Korean pop rabbit hole.
Costco had the giant pan we need on sale and some other things so I set out this morning. First I stopped at the Pulaski Hwy Aldi and picked up milk, sour cream, rolls, cream cheese, a candle, vegetables, an adjustable turkey rack and Christmas candy and somehow spent almost as much as I have in a week’s worth of groceries. I also got some take and bake garlic knots which I had never seen before. We still have some meat from my last big shop over two weeks ago, if they come to finish the soffits next week I might try to skip the shop I was planning and hold out for the next week. The virus is getting worse and we probably could go another week and a half with what I got.
Then I went to Costco and spent a ton (but not as much as I expected) on medicine, chicken (two so I can make pot pie tomorrow), baking sheets, 2 of the pans we wanted, a ton of bread products, cranberries and a few odds and ends. No toilet paper which seemed weird but I think that would have pushed us over into hoarding territory.
I really don’t want to go back until after the holiday. I said that before but then my medicine was on sale and the pan we haven’t been able to find elsewhere was a special this week. Still no parchment paper though!
I came home and made a sandwich with some of the chicken.
They had one of those huge packs of refrigerated ravioli with sausage (which I don’t think I’ve seen before) for under $6 so I got that. Matt had half for dinner with a simple tomato sauce and the garlic knots. The knots were okay but baked sort of unevenly? Half of each one was pretty good but the other half would be a little chewy and almost fishy tasting.
Then we finally watched a couple episodes of Dickinson on Apple+ and GBBO (Netflix).
For lunch I had some frozen shrimp and Matt had leftover red beans and rice with an egg.
For dinner I roasted a huge amount of summer squash and made faux Chick-fil-a sandwiches with the Aldi red bag chicken, brioche rolls and pickles.
The estimate for the rest of the roof is insane but I don’t think we have much choice. Oy. They said it will take 4 days too.
For lunch I added half of the leftover meatballs, a friend egg sprinkled with gochugaru and some watercress to cheese ramen. It was surprisingly photogenic! And tasty! Matt didn’t love it when he tried it before and it did small slightly like movie theater popcorn while it was cooking (milk solids is my guess as the culprit) but I liked it. Added a little gochugaru to the broth too (and didn’t drink all of it because it was a little salty). Matt had his meatballs on mi goreng. Making meatballs with what is leftover from making 2 chicken burgers has been a real genius move on my part, I think. The burgers were always hard to reheat well but the meatballs are easy to toss into noodles or fried rice.
For dinner Matt made red beans and rice from a packet and added it to sautéd chicken andouille, onions and celery. It was tasty! We’ve really had to start exploring some more “semi homemade” meals since we aren’t getting take out (yet, Matt really misses fries) or going to any restaurants.
It’s been a week since Matt talked to the unmasked guy and no symptoms! One week to go.
Tomorrow someone is coming out to give an estimate for fixing/replacing the soffits. Fingers crossed that isn’t much.
Matt is in training so we watched one Shakespeare and Hathaway (Britbox) and went to bed.
I made home fries and added the pork leftover from yesterday (it was a very small pork roast). So good! We had so many potatoes left from over a month ago that I wanted to make something with and home fries was perfect.
The apples we picked in October are still going strong, I just moved them to the enclosed porch where it is a little colder. My grandpop used to keep apples in a basket on the steps that led out to the backyard from his basement apartment in our house. Apples store well!
Matt’s a week into masking at home and sleeping in the craft room after his potential exposure with the roofers last week. All good so far!
For dinner I made chicken burgers with the last of the ground chicken and made meatballs with the rest for our lunch tomorrow. I made blue cheese coleslaw on the side.
We caught up on Death in Paradise on Britbox. I’ve been checking out some of the Apple+ shows since I get a year with my new IPad.
For lunch I had a can of chickarina and finished off the cheese ball. Matt had some noodles and cottage cheese.
I put up pork in the slow cooker so we had that with cabbage and zucchini in quesadillas.
We watched Death in Paradise on Britbox.
One of my goals is to find the perfect pancake recipe. We tried this Martha Stewart one and it wasn’t it. It was tasty but the pancakes weren’t fluffy enough. The yield was perfect though. So many recipes yield way too many pancakes for two people.
We had a snack of leftover cheese ball.
For dinner we had leftover baked ziti.
Rachel Eats Dinner 