everyday eating during "unprecedented" times
We got bagels for lunch to use some smoked salmon we had. The salmon wasn’t great though! We normally don’t get Acme brand and it was really chewy at parts. The bagels were solid though.
Matt did a little grocery shop because Coke was on a big sale and they had a small turkey so we ended up having that for dinner with mash and zucchini.
We went to the conservatory for their spring show. It was cute but not a huge amount was blooming. I don’t know if we’ve been there around this time of year before. Lots of orchids though.
We had fries from the fancy fry place near there.
I finished and made a second emotional support chickie, a tiny version of the big chickens I made last year when my dad was in the hospital.
Matt did a little shop for ham for Easter and some odds and ends.
For dinner we got sushi.
Per Matt’s request we had Thai for lunch. I love how they pack a tiny bit of pickle for the curry puff.
For dinner we had lumpia and pancit and tried some brazo de Mercedes which was okay but the filling was a little lumpy?
Started knitting a tiny chicken.
For lunch I had toast and soup. A real cold, dreary day! I had to run an errand in the morning and it felt like a real chore!
For dinner we had steak with arugula wild rice pilaf.
I returned something at Staples then did a tiny shop at Weis for Easter Candy and produce.
I still don’t know what we are having for Easter but Matt did place an order for a lamb cake at the bakery.
We got sandwiches at the Italian deli for lunch.
For dinner we made lemon potatoes (but with less oil), black cod and roasted cauliflower.
For lunch I had the leftover cabbage and corned beef. Matt tried out a Polish deli near his work.
Did a lot of button work.
Dinner was the ubiquitous Costco tacos.
A plant I’ve had for almost five years put out a big leaf today!
We ordered new phones and Matt picked them up this morning and then made us waffles.
I managed to make a few more buttons to get ahead on the independent ones. She sent us a schedule but I’d be surprised if we actually stick to it or get through them in class.
Matt ran to Costco and we had chicken tossed with arugula, tomatoes, onion and the feta and olives leftover from Friday’s app platter. We also finished off the leftover app dips.
Matt had to work off and on so it was a pretty chill day. We had chicken salad and pasta salad from the Amish market for lunch.
I put up a corned beef in the slow cooker in the morning and then we made sautéed cabbage and mashed potatoes with it for dinner.
Dottie napped on the doughnut.
We got a new bed frame delivered and put that up. It looks good!
I spent most of the day making four buttons from videos. Yay for more to check off my list. I want to watch the class I missed next. Maybe on Monday? I was going to do that today but Matt worked from home sort on of a weird schedule since he has to work tonight/into the morning and these four were easier to break up than the three hour class would be.
For lunch we got stuff from the Amish market for today and tomorrow.
For dinner we got takeout from the Greek place I tried a couple weeks ago. I think they liked our order because they gave us free lemon cake. We split an app platter with dips and cheese/olives (tons left), he got the pastitsio and I got the lamb. The fries weren’t bad! I thought they might be soggy.
Kind of a salty day! I realized I didn’t have anything leftover for lunch so I ended up having soup and some chips and salsa then we had a late-ish dinner of hot dogs, chips and broccolini (for health) because it was quick and easy.
Matt went into work super early and put the dogs back to bed as he normally does but somehow we still ended up getting up early. I felt like I lived a whole day before 10 am. I finished my buttons from this week’s class and finished watching Long Bright River.
I looked over my button list again and found 2 more buttons I sent in January she didn’t record so that’s two less I have to do. If she sticks to the schedule she actually put out, I won’t have too too many to do on my own.
We have videos for some and one week I missed a class because they changed the time last minute so I have a video for that. That should be about 8-10 buttons and then I’m still waiting for the videos she said she’d do in March. Which is a lot to make but at least it won’t be me teaching myself from these arcane books.
Rachel Eats Dinner 