everyday eating during "unprecedented" times
It was finally nice weather so we got steamed crabs again. We normally do around our birthdays and it was a shame it rained so much that we couldn’t do more when Matt was off.
For dinner we were going to have leftovers but a fancy sandwich place had a “Maryland hot chicken” sandwich special with Old Bay hot sauce so we got that to be festive. It was good but I have to remember their coleslaw tastes of nothing.
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.
For lunch I had the leftover étouffée and Matt had the rest of the chicken.
We tried the new-to-us Italian place again and got saltimbocca with pasta. It was pretty good but I think their salad, apps and bread are better.
Matt’s kit for his birthday arrived and is fine! Lots of Goldbelly orders at once but we pounced when there was a good sale and set it up.
For lunch we had the rest of the Dungeness crab slider kit.
Quick Costco trip.
Matt had to mow our yard and we had chicken and fries for dinner and I made broccoli slaw with banana peppers.
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 knockwurst. Matt mowed the lawn at the other house and picked up a sandwich.
My guild meeting/yearly auction was today but I had a migraine so I skipped it.
For dinner we got the pizza we talked about last week. We tried a new one with pesto, pepperoni and hot honey and I was skeptical but it was good!
We had a salad too but they forgot the dressing and parm so we had to make our own.
Since we bought plants last weekend we skipped the plant sale we were going to go to and got steamed crabs and cupcakes instead. Both places are near each other but not near us so it makes sense to pair them up! Even if it isn’t a birthday.
They had a special Preakness Black-eyed Susan cupcake with pineapple curd that was really good.
The crabs were good!
They had soft crabs so I cleaned and made them for dinner. On the said we had coleslaw Matt made, shrimp & mac salad and potato salad from the seafood store.
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 did a tiny shop this morning near the bagel shop so I got us bagels and salmon cream cheese for lunch.
For dinner we made baked chicken thighs and spinach-mushroom-wild rice pilaf. The trick is cooking the chicken on a bed of onions.
We were going to go to Annapolis for the plant sale but it was freakishly cold and windy this morning so we went to this native plant nursery instead. It moved to a golf course since we last went and it was a big hike. A good walk spoiled, indeed. We got a lot of plants for both houses.
We needed something at the Italian market so we got that and some sandwiches for lunch.
Matt did a little grocery run and we had salmon, corn muffins and salad for dinner.
Fruit salad for dessert! It’s been a long time since we’ve had berries.
Rachel Eats Dinner 