everyday eating during "unprecedented" times
Got fries from the fancy fry place. They are supposed to be opening a location near us so I’m looking forward to that! It looks like cheese in the photo but it’s really pineapple and pulled pork.
We were going to go to the conservatory but Lulu was up sick all night so we didn’t want to leave here alone.
Matt needed something at Costco so we had rotisserie chicken and leftover fennel risotto for dinner.
Split two different Italian sandwiches from the market.
For dinner we tried a new place and got oxtails, cabbage and rice. The oxtails were super tender!
For lunch we had the final crab cakes and pasta salad. I also made some popcorn. I like the new kind I bought from a farm in Michigan.
For dinner we had the leftover Indian food from Monday.
We had the leftovers from Christmas Eve.
Christmas and Hanukkah! Where is Seth Cohen?
We had waffles with the sassafras hickory syrup we got at the Apple Butter Festival in October.
It was tasty! I love our waffle maker.
We exchanged presents and they were all great! No misses.
For dinner Matt made risotto with fennel, mascarpone and Prosecco and lobster tails. It was really good!
We had ordered a Milk Bar cake so that was already in the freezer. It was a peppermint bark one and really tasty! I don’t know if we had that one before.
I feel like the most successful holiday meals are ones where we can prep before and don’t have to make dessert. When my mom was alive we didn’t have to make full meals so this has been a learning curve! Now my dad is gone too we don’t have any local family so it’s just us
Christmas Eve! For lunch we had some frozen pizza from Lidl that Matt had impulse bought a few weeks ago. One was better than the other.
Matt did dash out and get dill, banana peppers and celery.
I made beet salad, mixed up the crab cakes, made shrimp pasta salad in the afternoon and Matt made salmon dill deviled eggs. I used two kinds of crab meat—lump and jumbo lump which I think gives you the best texture if you want to splurge! It makes a ton of crab cakes so we have a lot left.
So good!
We ended up getting Thai food for lunch. They have a good lunch special, I got the pad Thai with tofu and curry puff. They even give you little pickled cucumber garnish.
I had the worst migraine Sunday night and then all day. I did manage to steam some shrimp and make hard-boiled eggs for tomorrow.
Then for dinner we were going to have hot dogs and salad but when we opened up the hot dogs they were sour smelling and bad. So gross. We didn’t have any food here that wasn’t frozen or for the holiday so we got Indian food. I had two kinds of chaat and Matt got some chicken and saag combo.
It’s so cold! I know it’s now winter but it’s normally not this cold day after day in December.
We had some food from the halal place for lunch then for dinner Matt made a sautéed cabbage dish, steak and baked potatoes. The potatoes were kind of tiny so we had two.
We were going to go to a knitting class but it was far away and icy.
We ended up making turkey and capicola sandwiches. The idea had been to bring them with us to eat before the class but at least we had them!
Did some chores and then had pot pie and dip from the farm store.
I was going to go grocery shopping today to get things I can’t get at Lidl/Aldi like buttermilk but then I got an email with a good coupon from Harris Teeter for delivery so I did that instead.
At lunch Matt went to the Italian store and got sandwiches, stuff for sandwiches tomorrow and things we needed for Christmas.
For dinner we got take out, I got enfrijoladas, he got enchiladas, split an order of sopes and got flan. So full! Tomorrow might be a little funky so didn’t want to go to bed hungry.
Rachel Eats Dinner 