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.
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.
I tried some frozen kati rolls for lunch and they were not great! One was really gristly.
It was my last button class today! It was a bit of a mess as usual, I had to overnight a marble of all things. I feel like I learned a bunch but everything about that class was such a mess.
For dinner we had pot roast, mash and green beans from the meal prep place.
The place that sells the club sandwiches and pasta dinner specials is under new ownership so we tried their club for lunch. It was good! They were out of chips (which comes with it) so they gave us fries instead which was nice.
For dinner we were going to get pizza but there was an awful storm that apparently included a tornado in the shopping center where I bought bagels this week. No people injuries but a very odd event for Baltimore City! is We were fine and pivoted to what was going to be tomorrow’s dinner of José Andrés new beef in sherry sauce from Costco. It was solid! We had it with mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts.
I’ve been looking for something like that for a quick meal. So often the prepared meats are for meals that will require ingredients to go with them that we we don’t always have on hand like tacos or gyros so I’ve wanted a meat that could go with pretty much any vegetable and something we always have like potatoes or noodles. There was a lot of gravy so we did cook the whole 2 lb box and have leftovers.
The plumber came today and then at bedtime we noticed the faucet is no longer flush with the wall so I guess we will have to have them come back! Matt was working when they were here and I guess didn’t notice. I was at the other house with the dogs.
I drove over to the other house after the play. It was a long night but the appraiser was coming early and I thought it would be easier than having to head over during rush hour. It’s the last bit of estate type thing I need to do! It’s just for documentation and pricey but I like to check all the boxes.
I had some leftover Singapore noodles for lunch with some leftover chicken mixed in.
I had my button class. Only one more!
For dinner we had pot roast, mash and roasted carrots from the meal prep place.
There was a lunch counter/diner near where I lived when I was little. I don’t think we ever went there because we didn’t really eat out but it was famous for their Coney Island dogs. Then years later it moved bizarrely near my parents new house on the river. We tried that for lunch. I was skeptical it would transport well but they wrapped the dogs up nicely and nothing was greasy at all.
Blurry photo for proof:
For dinner we had another of the Goldbelly meals—gumbo. It was really good! The third meal is in the freezer for later but I’d totally order from them again.
Rachel Eats Dinner 