Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I did the Once a Month Cooking back in November and it worked famously. So much so that I'm doing it again in a couple of weeks. This time around I'll be making:
Spaghetti Sauce
Chili
Chicken and black bean burritos
Honey Dijon chicken
Saucy Chicken
Hamburgers w/shredded veggies
Peach Glazed pork chops
lasagna
pot roast
Chicken carbonara
chicken enchiladas
cheesy potatoes with ham
We typically make one every two days or so and that feeds us for two dinners and two lunches.
How do you put together a menu for the week? How do you keep from buying stuff at the store that goes unused, and how do you know what you'll want to eat a week in advance?
I map the week's meals out in my head, trying not to be too repetitive, and I only get things I need for those meals, since I know I'll be back in a week anyway. I have a small list of things I make regularly, like Rice-a-Roni + ground turkey, chicken sausage in rolls, spaghetti with some sort of meatness, burritos (which I have not done in a while), chili, etc. I also search Trader Joe's for interesting ideas. And I am trying to learn how to make new things out of things I already have. The chili has lasted me over a week, as I've used it for chili dogs as well as just eating the chili straight.
An interesting article on snow clearing, comparing the recent Snowpocalyse cities to Chicago.
ION, I've decided that the sore throats I keep getting aren't actually from sickness, just dryness. So I'm boiling water on the stove. I blame the electric heat.
Coming in here late to hear Jessica's sad news. My thoughts are most sincerely with her and her family.
My sister reports from the California college trenches on a student trying to get into her class:
she’d paid another student for her spot in class and expected me to honor that and give her an add to the class over the other 35 who were also trying to add. I have 2 spots.
It's snowing. And when I saw it out of the corner of my eye, I got an adrenaline spike. Issues, much?
I blame the electric heat.
The shocks I get when I touch anything in my apartment are a constant every winter. My cat is now used to very tentatively extending her paw to my arm to lessen the initial shock before she walks on top of my chest.
Issues, much?
You're not paranoid, the snow is really out to get you.
Do you think I can leave work with the excuse that everything sucks? It's no "I'm sick", but it's closer to the truth.