I don't know. I had a late lunch after coming home from my half-day of jury duty (more tomorrow; our pool has been assigned to a case that starts picking tomorrow). I may need to go grocery shopping.

I had fried potato wedges, orange-ginger carrots, applesauce, and a bit of smoked sausage cooked under the broiler.

A big plate of brussels sprouts for me. Steak and mustard-grilled-potatoes for the rest of the family. I'll get whatever I can scrounge afterward.

Babyfood and whiskey.

(I'm gap-child-care tonight and my sister always forgets to have anything in the kitchen to eat--they're urban parents who take-out dinner all the time. Then, when I get home, I'm having the whiskey course.)

Had some leeks leftover so I threw them in a pot with potatoes, onion, celery and garlic. It's currently boiling away in chicken stock, after which I'll add some white wine and cream for sort of Leek and Potato Everything Soup.
But I knew that wouldn't be enough so I ran to the store a while ago and bought some crusty french bread to make some Crostini with Gruyere, Bacon and Yellow Tomato.
Hope it works out okay.
I'm also drinking some Dortmunder lager while I make it.

Squash soup, a few more ingredients (such as shredded kale) than this recipe, but that is where I am starting.

Some nice Aussie chardonnay that I picked up half price.

I had a nice dinner. I called in Waitrose on the way home to buy some carrots. Monday is a good time to go to Waitrose. It's the most upmarket of the UK's supermarkets, and is the only supermarket in my area. It's expensive, so I only buy the occasional item in there, but on Mondays there's a lot of stuff marked down that didn't sell at the weekend. Their quality control is very high, so the food is always good for days past it's 'sell by' date.

So I got a big piece of ham for £2.79, reduced from £9.79, which I've already cooked. I'll eat it cold during the week with cheese.

And I got a box of six Aberdeen Angus sirloin steaks, reduced from £22.99 to £9.99. I put five in my little freezer and ate one, cooked on a cast-iron ridged griddle, and served with grilled peppers, courgette (zucchini) and asparagus. To follow I had fresh mango with Greek yoghurt.

I love steak. It was very nummy.

Right this minute, I'm thinking about going to the pizza place, and getting something with pesto on it.

Low-fat everything. And not much of it. Sigh.

I'm learning to make big meals on the weekends now, with ten-hour workdays (close to 14 on Wednesdays, since I teach, but I am off on Tuesdays from real job but do teach those nights too) and a close to four month baby around. I'm the cook, though Mrs. tr33, bless her soul, is learning. Nonetheless I try to make as much as I can on the weekend to store or freeze so we can still eat sensible meals.

So, yesterday amongst other things like yardwork, a walk, and making that night's dinner (roasted butternut squash with other roasted veg and couscous) I put some corn chowder in the crockpot and let it cook all day. Super easy to prep, so tonight when I finally get home all I have to do is reheat it and add one cup of soymilk. We'll have that with some cheddar garlic bread.

Recipe -
1 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 celery stalks, chopped
2 tbs flour
1 large carrot, chopped
1 potato, chopped
1 16 oz. bag frozen corn
Rosemary
Bay leaf
Sage
1 cup soy/milk
4 cups veg/other broth

Saute first three ingredients in 1/4 cup water until soft, remove from heat and dust with flour. Add to other ingredients except for soymilk in a crockpot and cook on low 6-8 hours. Remove bay leaf, stir in soymilk. Slurp.

Possibly a hot dog and fries (from Byron's, in case you're wondering). Or maybe just leftovers.

Sigh.

Stir-fried vegetables and leftover cold chicken.

Red beans and rice.

Probably hot dogs.

"Oven-fried" chicken (it's a great recipe really) with broccoli and mashed potatoes. I'd rather have steak sandwiches and fries.

Home-made tomato soup with goat-cheese & garlic toasts.

I had Nachos - extra Jalapeño.
Not bad - though the chips were a little soggy.

Spaghetti carbonara with garlic bacon, home-grown eggs and patty pan squash. And probably kale for good measure, because things go better with kale. I'm lazy tonight, what can I say?

Have I mentioned how lucky it makes me feel to have a big-assed garden and a small flock of poultry?

Shrimp on the barbie, Caesar salad, biscuits.

Tonight's dinner- oatmeal cookies with raspberry jam.

I lied. Between planning and cooking, dinner sprouted tiny little broccoli shoots from a plant that's on it's way out, a few sungold cherry tomatoes, and some cranberry beans in the shell. I don't know if the latter is delicious, but I keep growing them because I like the way they look so I might as well learn to eat them.

Thai takeout leftovers from my wife's work. Her office buys them all dinner every night but she only ever eats half of it.

"Deviled chicken" -- broiled chicken breasts coated with a dijon crust -- spinach sauteed with garlic and red pepper, oven-roasted potatoes with garlic and rosemary, salad with romaine and homegrown tomatoes and dijon vinaigrette. And a lovely local syrah.

stet, my favorite cranberry bean recipe.

Ooo, I want that! Thanks, occhiblu!

garlic bacon

what

Went out to Radici. I had a glass of red zin and chicken Cacciatore - very nice, wide tasty noodles and little chunks of fried proscuitto in the sauce, with some large chunks of nutmeggy sausage. LT had Polpette - veal meatballs - with tomato sauce and pappardella (sp?) the superwide noodles. This was a really nice meal out for me since it's my Saturday night - I worked all through the real weekend so am taking today and tomorrow off.

TPS, you should invite me over some time.

I had spaghetti squash with meatballs and garlic bread. Chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons for dessert.

Tonight was brown rice, cooked in 1/2 water, 1/2 chicken squeezin's, with a healthy dollop of shmaltz in lieu of butter, broiled zucchini slathered with salt & olive oil, and chicken thighs marinated in lemon juice & garlic, breaded with the whizzed remains of last week's loaf of sourdough & pan fried. Wine was the $4 Hungarian red from Trader Joes, which I quite like - so tannic it's like wine and tea together in a glass!

I'm trying to get away from what Pollan describes as a "big chunk of animal protein in the center of the plate", but old habits die hard.

and did I mention - I'm super jealous of stet's backyard farm spread!

Had a bagel last night. Dunno what's on the menu for this evening. Something equally exciting, I'm sure.