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I spent a good amount of the weekend making a Samoa Cheesecake from GimmeSomeOven.com for last night’s dessert, and it was delicious. We also did a bit of gardening, folded a lot of laundry and dragged random piles of brush to and fro in the yard. As such, I’m sore today and should probably start doing yoga and stretching before I drag brush piles around again.

Anywho: Here’s what we’re having for dinner this week.

Monday: “Take-Out style Sesame Noodles“
Rockford requested these again, and I’m happy to oblige. I ate the leftovers for lunch for days and days the last time we had them. I’m adding some shaved carrots and minced bell pepper this time.
Tuesday: Chicken sausages & mac ‘n’ cheese
I made a hundred million pounds of macaroni and cheese to go with our Easter dinner yesterday, and we still have about 999,000 pounds of it left. The chicken sausages will serve as a lovely accoutrement to the piles of mac & cheese we’ll be eating tomorrow.
Wednesday: Fish
Note to self: Go buy some delightfully seasoned frozen fish.
Thursday: Sloppy Joes
I also made too much Sloppy Joe the last time we had it. I’ll be pulling the extra from the freezer for Thursday night.
Friday: Pizza
Oh yes it’s pizza night! Oh what a night. (Oh what a night.)

How was your weekend? Did you do laundry? Have some cheesecake? Haul brush? Whatever you did, I hope it was enjoyable.

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52frames, Domestic Blitz

There’s a fine line between ritual and habitual

I had a plan for last week’s 52Frames theme. The theme was Ritual, and I was going to take a picture of Rockford and I watching “Saturday Night Live.” It certainly isn’t a ritual in the Merriam-Webster sense — there’s neither ceremony nor religious rite involved — but it’s something we’ve done most every Saturday night since Poppy was born. But I couldn’t get the picture to come out the way I’d envisioned it. The light was weird and my arm looked weird and SNL was a rerun and I was already tired, so I chucked the plan. And when it didn’t pan out on Saturday evening, I figured I’d just be skipping yet another week.

Then I woke up Sunday morning and heard Rockford and Poppy working on their Sunday morning pancakes, and I thought it would be a nice little ritual to capture for posterity.

52Frames, week 11: Ritual “Sunday Morning Pancakes"
52Frames, week 11: Ritual
“Sunday Morning Pancakes”

It’s far too dark — you can barely find Rockford in the picture — so I may try it again this Sunday. I feel like it was a good thing just to get a picture turned in this week, though, lest I slip into the habit of giving up quite so easily.

menu plan Monday

A menu plan for when the sun finally makes an appearance

The weather this week is supposed to be warm and sunny, so I thought we might try out some fine-weather foods.

Monday: “Take-Out style Sesame Noodles“
These are super-simple, and tonight I tried to teach Poppy how to make them. She lost interest and wandered away before they were finished, but everyone ate the noodles even though they were on the spicy side.
Tuesday: Coconut curry chicken
I bought a jar of sauce for this, so it too shall be super-simple.
Wednesday: Blackened trout
My favorite restaurant in Columbia MO used to serve blackened redfish, and it was the greatest. I don’t think I’ve tried to blacken anything myself, and I’ve also never made trout. So much room for disaster!
Thursday: Cheeseburgers
I keep putting cheeseburgers on the menu, and then we keep not having them. Poor Petey.
Friday: ???
I think Poppy will be going out on the town with her Grandma on Friday, and Rockford will be at a basketball game. I’m not sure what Pete and I will be doing, but I know he’ll want cheeseburgers again.

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