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.
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.
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.
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 I had a chicken sandwich and some pretzels.
The étouffée was excellent! Lots of crawfish. We really liked everything from that order.
Nice weather for Memorial Day! I sat outside a bit and we played a lawn game.
For lunch we had chicken sandwiches and chips. I’m tired of lunch!
For dinner we made broccoli cheddar twice baked potatoes and pork loin.
I had put some étouffée from the last Goldbelly order to defrost overnight for today to be festive but it was still a little slushy so we can have it tomorrow.
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.
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.
Rachel Eats Dinner 