Flotsam / Jetsam

Things I have enjoyed lately

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  • 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

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    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.

    Menu Plan MondayButternut squash ravioli

    Spaghetti

    Red beans and rice

    Tacos

    Mexican pizzas

    Bandwagons

    “The Aztec Legal Consultant’s Unctuous Heiress”? Has merit.

    I’m pretty sure I’m going to try NaNoWriMo again this year. I’ve been working on coming up with a plot. Which you could* read to mean I’ve been googling things like “mystery plots” and “Romance novel generator.” While I probably won’t** be writing “The Indian NASCAR Driver’s Bemused Captive” any time soon, I did find the classic 12-chapter mystery plot outline pretty intriguing. Now I just need a captivating detective, a villainous villain and some criminal misdeeds.

    Whatever I end up with, I’m 97% certain that Hall and Oates will play a major role.

    p.s. A laugh at Dan Brown’s expense.

    *Because that would be entirely accurate.
    **Or will I?!? Stay tuned.