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Flotsam / Jetsam

Things I have enjoyed lately

10/27/2009 Nichole 1 Comment

Thinking about NaNoWriMo.

The pretty, pretty leaves.

Poppy, upon being handed a juice box: “Oh! It’s just like meal-in-a-cup!”

Thinking about Thanksgiving.

Dressing the kids up in their Halloween costumes. (Little Red Riding Hood! The Big Bad Wolf! Cuteness!)

Pouring red beans & rice into gallon-size bags with Rockford. (Simple pleasures. I know. Maybe you had to be there.)

Re-reading “The Book Thief” to see if it was as good as I’d originally thought. It was. I cried again.

Eating, menu plan Monday

In which I do not accept the challenge

10/26/2009 Nichole 2 Comments

Our random Recipe Roulette meal this week was Chicken Biryani from Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything.” Amy liked it, but I have a confession to make: I didn’t make it. And I most likely won’t, because it has saffron in it. Do you know how much the only bottle of saffron I could find cost? Twenty-five dollars. To which I said, “Oh please.” And also, “No thank you.” But only after I passed out in the spice aisle. Random recipe picker? I blame you for my failure.

Happily, I get to pick next week’s recipe. Rest assured it will not contain saffron.

Maybe it was a reactionary thing, but I seem to have picked a bunch of extra-inexpensive meals for this week. With the exception of the red beans and rice, they’re also low-effort. The red beans and rice will take a good bit of time, but I’m making a ton of it. So next time it’ll just be a matter of thawing and reheating it.