everyday eating during "unprecedented" times
Lulu didn’t feel well so I dashed out to the store and got some chicken for her and some odds and ends to eke out a few days’ worth dinners.
For lunch we made sandwiches with the smoked turkey from the Goldbelly box and finished up the dregs of the guacamole Doritos and nacho pretzel sticks—both surprisingly tasty. The turkey was fine.
For dinner we had leftover crab cakes (last ones!) with the leftover cauliflower and potatoes from another meal.
Tried a new pit beef place for lunch! They had a deal with a sandwich, fries and drinks and it was so much fries. And they had birch beer on tap which was fun. The food was really good and they put the tiger sauce on themselves which I prefer. So many pit beef places have it out to serve yourself and it gets hot and grimy.
For dinner we had the white barbecue smoked chicken from the box, red beans and rice and I made broccoli slaw.
The barbecue arrived a day late and some of it was cold but defrosted. Disappointing because we got a good deal on a package that was just meat (and one stew) and the idea was to keep most of it frozen for meals for the other house. I really hate having to haul tons of groceries there so the idea was to have some fun meat on hand this summer and to get produce from the farm stands and farm store that is right near the house and not have to haul so much back and forth.
Anyway, the Brunswick stew defrosted and it was pretty gross. No lima beans and barely any corn or potatoes. Bland. Hopefully everything else is better? We made corn muffins to go with. I barely ate any and had some leftover paella as a snack.
For dinner we heated up some leftover crab cakes and roasted cauliflower and baby potatoes.
The weather was awful today! I also had a migraine so it was rough.
Today was Matt’s birthday so I made crab cakes for lunch.
For dinner we made paella and had chocolate salted caramel cake from the José Andrés and Martha Stewart Goldbelly kit.
It came with a nice paella pan and lots of extra rice so we will have to make paella again!
Another Goldbelly kit was supposed to arrive today (I know, I know) but it didn’t. Hopefully it will be okay tomorrow.
So we had the SeaBear Goldbelly meals today. The bagels were fun to make but the directions should have been clearer, you do need to shape them again even though they already look like bagels. I made bagels back in college once and remembered that being important by we had started with making the dough. Here they were ready up to the second rise and looked ready to go.
The smoked salmon and the bagels were sweeter than I’d prefer but not bad!
We really loaded them up with the salmon because there really wasn’t quite enough for whole other bagel.
We went to a park I had gone to years ago with my mother. I showed Matt how to get the nectar from honeysuckle. How had he never done that before? It was sunny and breezy but not as cool as it has been. It’s been freakishly cold the last week—even into the 40s.
For dinner we made the Dungeness crab sliders. They were okay. The dip was really drippy and it would have been so much better with the actual crab meat that the box was supposed to have.
We stopped at the farm store and got strawberries for dessert and tomatoes for the sliders. Both were good! The tomato was an heirloom variety from Canada of all places.
I ordered one of those weekender brunch kits from Goldbelly for the long weekend/as a early birthday treat for Matt from a smokery in Washington state. It was bake your own bagels and sliders with lox, smoked salmon cream cheese, Dungeness crab and a red king crab spread. We were excited because we don’t get Dungeness or red king crab here.
It arrived this morning and the bagels/rolls seem fine but they substituted every seafood item in the kit for something similar but not quite right. We got crab dip instead of crab meat, salmon mousse instead of salmon cream cheese and smoked salmon instead of lox.
About half of the items were not even the same brand we ordered from. Even the butter wasn’t from the creamery listed. Goldbelly is giving us a credit and said they contacted them to see what happened. The other option was getting it sent again but I don’t feel confident that they will actually send the right stuff and I don’t want to deal with that. Nothing but the baked goods was correct.
We can still eat it (I’m assuming, it’s still frozen) but I had to go buy cream cheese for the bagels and I don’t know if the dip would work on a sandwich.
For lunch we had salmon and coconut rice from the meal prep place and leftover cucumber salad. It wasn’t bad! I find the meals they sell without a vegetable a little strange, the portions are generally smaller too. Which is okay for lunch but makes for a skimpy dinner! If I wanted to cook a side, I’d probably just make the whole meal myself. They don’t sell a ton of sides so I don’t think it’s a way to make people to spread more or anything like that.
Since the SeaBear Goldbelly box was supposed to be basically all of our meals this weekend and now I’m not sure if that’s going to work, we ended up getting Greek food and saving the food I planned to make tonight for Sunday when nothing is open. I can’t go to a third grocery store this week.
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.
We did what has become a tradition—lobster bake! Matt took off so we could have a long weekend and picked it up at noon so we could make it for lunch.
It was really good! I think they gave us extra shrimp because we had some leftover.
So good! Also had some little cakes from the old school bakery and our traditional candy.
For dinner Matt made us crab risotto. It was almost too crabby!
We had Baltimore classic sausage and hominy for lunch. Mannings apparently has switched to small cans which I don’t love but it’s all I can find.
Matt went Costco while I chilled with the dogs and made a couple buttons so I don’t get behind.
For dinner we had Costco tacos.
Matt made meatballs for tomorrow when he has to go into work and has a piano lesson.
Lots of button making today! Trying to get ahead since these are buttons that are easier to find videos of online. The German ones we do are really obscure.
It did snow but not too much and they finally salted and drove a plow down.
For lunch Matt made us tuna melts with the Costco bread.
For dinner we had Costco tacos again.
Rachel Eats Dinner 