everyday eating during "unprecedented" times
Kind of a blah day! I tried out the Boom Loom and then got a migraine. I don’t think the two are connected.
For lunch I had oyster flavored instant ramen with the greens/mushrooms leftover from dinner the other day.
For dinner Matt made fried rice with the last of the kimchi and pork from the roast. So good! That pork really stayed tender,
I somehow mailed out a return (they sent me the wrong thing) and went to Trader Joe’s (20 minutes away) and got back in an hour and fifteen minutes today. No lines, good parking! It was the first day it was really cold and stayed there—I don’t think it got over 30 today!
Trader Joe’s did not have the peppermint marshmallows that I buy in bulk every year so I got some odds and ends we need to tide us over for a big shop but nothing too exciting. A woman and I were checking out their candles and lotion and decided that the viral chocolate croissant candle almost smelt too realistic and put it back.
Matt went to the Italian store and got us sandwiches and ingredients for dinner. He mixed up the meat mid day and then made spaghetti and meatballs when he was done work. So good! Plenty of leftovers.
We made some rice so we can make fried rice tomorrow and had a cookie.
Watched more French tv!
Recipe testing day! I made some “monster cookies” from a community cookbook. They were really good and huge but made my house smell of peanut butter for hours! I had to crack open the back door even though it was literally freezing out.
Did a lot of work then worked on my knitting project—it’s a hot water bottle cover.
For lunch I had popcorn and the few bites of Chinese food leftovers I had.
For dinner we had steeelhead trout with rice and the baby bok choy and mushrooms I got at H Mart over two weeks ago! How the greens and mushrooms stayed pristine I don’t know.
More French mysteries and knitting.
Tomorrow I actually have to leave the house! I’m hoping to do a little grocery shop to tide us over until we know what we are making for Hanukkah and Christmas and I can start shopping for that. I really haven’t done a big regular shop this whole month! Just a couple little shops and the H Mart visit which was mostly for dumplings.
Today was a long day! Verizon came out and fixed our phone, Matt took my dad to the doctor. Somehow the doctor office had him down for an appointment but didn’t know what it was for. Oy. Anyway, that worked worked,
I made myself nachos with cheese, onion and the leftover quesadilla filling and Matt made himself some ramen when he got home.
For dinner we had Friday’s Chinese food leftovers. All planned so we did not have to cook today! At least everything was done early but it was an exhausting, early day and I only got a couple hours sleep last night.
We finished up our rewatch of Vera and the end of another French mystery we started yesterday. It was a very strange one!
I tried to read The Core of an Onion by Mark Kurlansky and it was so bad! It read like a young child’s book report using Wikipedia and AI as a source. I actually googled if it was written for children before giving up. Was he always this bad? Has he suffered some cognitive decline? I read Salt years ago and thought it was fine and read at somewhat of an adult level.
I finally finished my lap blanket. I realized it was too small as per the pattern so made a couple more squares and added four Matt made to it. Thankfully his were in pretty coordinating colors! If I had know how small it was I would have planned for us making a blanket together from the beginning, I guess it worked out because he wasn’t loving making the squares and stopped at six. I turned his other two squares into a pouch.
Another day of French mysteries and knitting.
We also decorated the tree!
For lunch we had turkey sandwiches.
For dinner Matt made a pork rib roast, potato kugel with the leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving and sauerkraut. So good! I’ve never seen a pork rib roast before but Matt got it at Aldi the other day. We always feel like we should get the weirder cuts and specials so they keep selling them. It was really good but took a lot longer to cook than the cooking estimates we found online suggested.
Now I need to figure out what to do with these leftovers!
Trying to get through the turkey today! We had turkey sandwiches for lunch then turkey-zucchini quesadillas for dinner.
Cake for dessert. It’s held up pretty well!
Today we were going to go to a holiday mart but it was really windy and outside on the waterfront and that didn’t sound fun. Instead Matt did a quick run to the grocery store and got some things to hold us over until I do a big shop.
Then we rearranged the living room so we could put up the tree. We got new lights this year I’m excited to use. They did send us one incorrect strand but I don’t know if we will need it, I had bought it as an extra.
I bet most people don’t have to move a floor loom to make room for a tree! Matt assembled the tree so tomorrow we can decorate it.
We found before that doing the moving/assembly and decorating in the same day is too much.
We watched some French murder mystery movies and set up a new knitting project. Wild Saturday night!
For lunch we had tuna. I had it on bread and it was fine but when Matt went to make his sandwich, the next slices were super moldy! So strange, we just used some of it yesterday in the stuffing and it was fine then too. I always check (after living my slices out, I actually thought the top crust of the remaining slices looked dark through the bag so I double checked) so I know my slices were clear but how does that happen? Are they slapping two unrelated loaves together?
Anyway! He made some pasta for his tuna to make it more filling.
For dinner we got some Chinese take out (Singapore noodles) because Matt was on call and we will have more time to cook tomorrow.
We had some of the apple cake for dessert!
We stayed home this year but made the traditional turkey, stuffing balls made in the pan with the turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut.
Matt also made chopped liver with the turkey liver so we had that for a snack with the cake he made yesterday. The cake was great!
Matt also made himself some kimchi turkey tacos but I was stuffed!
It was so nice not having to go anywhere! Holidays have been a mess since my mom died and I’m not putting myself through that anymore!
We did a sister themed double feature of Quiz Lady and Polite Society. Polite Society was a little disappointing! They should have had all the fight sequences be real and have it all be over the top or have it be she has an active fantasy life and there is something strange with the fiancé’s family but that he needs to be married to inherit the family castle and is overly enmeshed with his mother and she has to force everyone to believe her. It was a weird mash up of the two that didn’t really work.
I had no expectations of Quiz Lady and it was actually pretty cute! It stayed on tone and made sense.
For lunch I made a big batch of tuna salad so we’d have some for Friday or another day too. I’m not sure what we are going to do with our Thanksgiving leftovers so I thought it might be nice to have something ready to go, maybe even for Thanksgiving night?
Matt made a cake in the early evening for tomorrow. Very tempted to try it tonight!
As planned we had leftover red beans and rice and okra for dinner. We don’t go too wild for Thanksgiving but I figured we’d want to bake and not worry about dinner. Take out the day before Thanksgiving is always a mess too.
Dreary rainy day today! I’m glad I didn’t have to go anywhere.
My new Docs arrived damaged! I’m super annoyed because they fit and they make you pay to return them.
I also got my Penzy’s order. I’ve been out of poppy seeds forever and they finally had them on sale.
For lunch we got the Thanksgiving sandwich again before they are off the menu.
For dinner we had steaks and the rest of the squash dressing. Not cute but very tasty! We really have master the perfect medium rare.
Rachel Eats Dinner 