Topic: What are you eating / What did you eat.

[6pairsofshoes]

Fresh cream scones and marmalade.  Earl Grey tea.  not particularly exciting, but at least predictable.

[6pairsofshoes]

Breakfast.

[6pairsofshoes]

Lately, I've been chopping enough vegetables for 2 dishes when I do, storing half in the fridge.  This morning I got out the remaining vegs and started making soup.  It's only 9 a.m. and the soup is already cooking.  I usually wait until 4 pm or so, and have the end product for dinner.  For some reason, I jumped in early and will put it in the fridge until later after it's finished.

Right now I just feel like going back to bed, since I got up too early, but I can't leave the soup on the fire while I'm sleeping, so I am on here. 

[8ullfrog]

While food shopping online I discovered that you can buy pickle juice. Sans pickles!
Also a deli platter of sliced veggies for burgers is a bit rich for regular food shopping, but priced well for a BBQ.

Had a PB&J for lunch, exciting, I know.

[6pairsofshoes]

I lived on PB&J sandwiches one year as I was working in a place where I didn't have access to a fridge or to a reasonably priced lunch place.  The whole wheat bread with good peanut butter and decent jam kept me going all day.  It was amazing how I basically never got hungry.  Probably due to the fat and proteins in the peanut butter.

I'm making "shake & bake" chicken with just bone in thighs and a McCormick rub sprinkled on the skin, along with small baked potatoes.  That's about my speed these days.  I had a small salad so I could make it for the hour it takes for them to cook.  I'm amazed at how expensive chicken is getting.

[8ullfrog]

I had a marinated hatch chili chicken bag I was really looking forward to, but when I opened it, the whole thing smelled horrible. Right in the bin. Shame when that happens.I was going to make enchiladas.

[6pairsofshoes]

That sucks.  I just baked some maple walnut muffins.  I have to wait for them to cool a bit but they make pretty tasty snacks or a nice breakfast food.

[6pairsofshoes]

I made persimmon cookies yesterday -- they were like sweet little bricks.  Not a great recipe.

Now I'm roasting asparagus and getting ready to heat up some butter chicken and rice to go with it.  Taxes done, so I'm going to pour a glass of wine and spend an agreeable evening being stupid.

[6pairsofshoes]

I'm tired from traveling so I went to the grocer's to pick up a rotisserie chicken.  I nabbed one of the two packages in the hot chicken area.  I get home and see that I've managed to get a large rotisserie chicken breast for twice the price of a whole chicken.  They had changed the packaging so I was confused and purchased the wrong item.   And we don't really even like white meat on the bird so I'm trying to figure out what to do with this slab of bird meat.  Maybe curried chicken salad?  Soup?  White meat chicken basil sauce?  The idea was to come home and do nothing more than heat it up.  Now I have a project.  I guess I shouldn't grumble since there's plenty of people who have to do without, but I could use some more energy to deal with it.

[8ullfrog]

When the tub chickens didn't sell we turned them into chicken salad.

[6pairsofshoes]

Last night I used less than ¼ of the meat to make a tomato based sauce with basil and diced chicken.   It was nice over pasta and made enough for 3 meals for the two of us.  We'll probably heat some more chicken meat tonight and have with a salad or vegetable on the side.  It's reasonably moist and tender so given how many meals we'll get out of it, it wasn't hideously expensive, all things considered.  I thought of making curried chicken salad for lunch but I'd like to make it with mango chutney and we don't have any in the pantry so I made egg fried rice for lunch with the vegs that were getting older in the fridge.  Stir fry with eggs and rice.  It wasn't magical but it was economical.

[6pairsofshoes]

I had some leftover pizza for lunch.  We've been lured to a local place by the $3/slice Wednesday specials, but they just aren't as good as the transcendently wonderful cheese slices you can get at some places in NYC.  At least they don't charge for seltzer and don't look at you like you have 2 heads when you ask for it.

There are certain foodways typical of the Northeastern US that are reassuringly simple but good.  I'm sure there's got to be good pizzarias in RI but it will take a little exploration.  Given the strong mafia connections of this area, good pizza is a necessary part of the culture.  Finding it is another thing, however.  The local place has some simply bizarre additions on its pizzas.  Mac and cheese, tortellini, tortillas for their nacho toppings.  Got some food?  Put it on the pizza.  That seems to be their culinary ethos.  Needless to say they put all kinds of meats on there:  sliced steak, sausage, chicken, "hamburg" and pepperoni.  And of course, pineapple is essential on some.