Stuology

We had lots of food today. We still have lots of food. Tomorrow I’m making dinner number two. Then I might not have to cook anything for a week. We can live off leftovers. Tomorrow is a butternut squash crab bisque, turkey vegetable chowder and the nutty mixed up salad. And apparently lots of pie. [...]

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You know what I was going to do when I got home from my appointment around 10:30 this morning? Take the turkey out of the deep freeze and put it in the downstairs fridge to start defrosting. Do you know what I remembered I didn’t do around 10:30pm tonight? Take the turkey out of the [...]

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We went out last night for a family dinner at FreeState. While we were walking down Mass heading to our car– which was parked no where near FreeState–Ada took in the usual street performers. And by took in, I mean she got right up with a group and danced. And one danced with her. It [...]

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The last two weeks have been difficult. I did nothing last week but just exist, having to try very hard to even get out of bed. I ate very poorly, and got no exercise. I wanted Saturday to be much of the same, but I did at least force myself to get up for some [...]

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Me: Ada, do you know what Kansas’ state animal is? Ada: No. Me: It is the American Bison, the animal that is on our quarter. You are going to see one tonight. In burger form. With caramelized onions and a union with Wisconsin and some of their cheddar.

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I had spinach. I had bacon. I had eggs. I wanted to make some kind of casserole. I though about beating the eggs, mixing with cream, bacon and spinach, whipping some egg whites, folding it in and baking. Then I got distracted while browsing and found this: Baked Eggs with Bacon and Spinach. AKA, A [...]

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Because it isn’t a pancake, it is a egg & squash fritter. It is also the Millennium Falcon. I went for a walk during lunch on Friday straight to Williams Sonoma to purchase the two sets of Star Wars pancake molds. I made pancakes for the family, and they didn’t work out too well. At [...]

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Ada asked if she could make dinner tonight. I inquired about what she had in mind and she said, “Some super-duper good food stuff that is good for your body and may have just a little bit of milk.” We discussed and worked it out that we are going to make Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs [...]

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Cooking Sunday is about to begin. It really does ease mid-week cooking if I pre-cook stuff on Sunday. At least, it minimizes the temptation to order food. With my schedule during the week being busy from 5:30am – 5:45pm, it doesn’t leave me a lot of time or energy for prepping or extensive cooking. Or [...]

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Dinner was really easy tonight. I just opened the fridge and let the kids pick from the three items I made yesterday. Tomorrow I was going to pick up a rotisserie chicken and some vegetable, leftovers that make great chicken salad. However, tonight Mac gave me a raclette. Now I want to pick up the [...]

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