The sick has taken over my house. Thankfully it isn't the big scary sick is lurking around every corner, but it is the sick nonetheless. I'm feeling better but the baby, the husband and the roommate are all feeling it. The big kid just got back from 5 days at his dad's house so it hasn't hit him. Hopefully it won't.
The weather and the time of year are trying to force a dark cloud over my head, but I'm trying to fight it off. We instituted a chore list and a meal planning schedule. Hopefully that will help keep things somewhat sane around here.
I'm watching Antiques Roadshow with the roommate. The husband and the big kid are in the kitchen. The big kid is getting a lesson in making adobo and, it is awesome to listen to. Home ec a la the Philippines. And I get to eat adobo at the end of it.
This week for "school" we are drawing a map, to scale, of the front yard. I got a neat little book with permaculture projects, including designing beds like mandalas and herb mounds using recycled tires. Pretty cool. I'm excited to get started. Of course I want to start planting all sorts of things NOW NOW NOW, but I'm going to use this gardening experience as a growing opportunity and do it the proper way. So, we're going to plan the beds and then prep the soil over the winter. I know it will pay off in the long run. In the meantime, I'm trying to keep myself busy learning how to make bread, sew skirts and curtains(I just ordered about 5 sewing books from the library), and freeze some meals.
Is this like postpartum nesting or something?
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2009
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
stream of consciousness
The Boyfriend left for the west coast this morning. Despite the brief nap between the trip to the airport and me "really" waking up, I am exhausted. Unfortunately, I have to be back up at work in just over an hour for the end of the year awards ceremony. All I can say is, thank the heavens my school doesn't do a junior high "graduation".
I tend to stay up later with TB around because he's a night owl and I doze on the couch next to him until he's ready to go to bed. So maybe I'll catch up on some much needed sleep while he is away. This weekend will be strange with the house entirely to myself the entire time. Of course, I'll be working half of that time, but I'll wake up alone and sleep alone. I haven't had that much quiet in......well, who the hell knows when?
Last night I grilled some little flank steaks and topped it with homemade chimichurri sauce. Simple steamed rice was all it really needed as a side. I tried to plan the meal thing better this week, because I've fallen off that wagon in the past month or so. Tonight is an easy dinner of garlic wedding sausage, fried rice (TB usually makes it but I'm going to try with the leftover rice with last night), and some salad. I let The Kid pick a dinner for the night so tomorrow we're having frozen pizza. Next week I'll add the qualifier that it must be something I actually make, not just heat.
Speaking of food....or not, I'm thinking of trying the "Master Cleanse"/Lemonade Diet that some of my buddies have been doing lately. I may have even talked TB into trying it with me, but I don't know if he realizes we'll have to lay off the BBQ if we do that. Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit, but do we both love our meat! I'm nervous about doing that and having to go be a chipper retail worker. I get cranky without food. So it's not just the meat I love. It's all of it.
Hmm, now I want another tortilla.
I tend to stay up later with TB around because he's a night owl and I doze on the couch next to him until he's ready to go to bed. So maybe I'll catch up on some much needed sleep while he is away. This weekend will be strange with the house entirely to myself the entire time. Of course, I'll be working half of that time, but I'll wake up alone and sleep alone. I haven't had that much quiet in......well, who the hell knows when?
Last night I grilled some little flank steaks and topped it with homemade chimichurri sauce. Simple steamed rice was all it really needed as a side. I tried to plan the meal thing better this week, because I've fallen off that wagon in the past month or so. Tonight is an easy dinner of garlic wedding sausage, fried rice (TB usually makes it but I'm going to try with the leftover rice with last night), and some salad. I let The Kid pick a dinner for the night so tomorrow we're having frozen pizza. Next week I'll add the qualifier that it must be something I actually make, not just heat.
Speaking of food....or not, I'm thinking of trying the "Master Cleanse"/Lemonade Diet that some of my buddies have been doing lately. I may have even talked TB into trying it with me, but I don't know if he realizes we'll have to lay off the BBQ if we do that. Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit, but do we both love our meat! I'm nervous about doing that and having to go be a chipper retail worker. I get cranky without food. So it's not just the meat I love. It's all of it.
Hmm, now I want another tortilla.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
testing the waters
has it really been 4.5 months since i wrote in this thing? jeesh. go figure. so, i finished my first semester of grad school (4.0 gpa thankyouverymuch) and the second semester is officially underway. in fact, i'm procrastinating on homework right now! i'm also in my last semester at my current job and i'm already counting down the days. i'm digging deep to get a new attitude but it is proving difficult.
i've been reading a lot of blogs on simplifying my life and spending habits lately, and it has really got me thinking. i'll be leaving a nice salary in august and reenter the world of scraping together money for the bills every month. i opened a savings account a few weeks ago and plan to direct deposit part of my paycheck into it every month. but i know i need to do more. or, really, i need to do less. less buying clothes i don't need. less eating out.
at the same time, i am really striving to live a more green life. the composting is second nature, as is recycling every bit i can. the difference in the amount of trash i put out in the alley is amazing. i've also started really paying attention to how much packaging my products use. in my diet i am eating as close to the source as possible. cutting out convenience foods has really been a lot easier than i thought, too.
i don't mean to give the impression that this has all been easy. my schedule makes it difficult to prepare meals 2 nights a week and that translates into scrambling for lunch 2 mornings a week. food planning is difficult for me because i eat according to cravings often and those are hard to predict.
well, the homework won't do itself so i suppose i should dive back in.
i've been reading a lot of blogs on simplifying my life and spending habits lately, and it has really got me thinking. i'll be leaving a nice salary in august and reenter the world of scraping together money for the bills every month. i opened a savings account a few weeks ago and plan to direct deposit part of my paycheck into it every month. but i know i need to do more. or, really, i need to do less. less buying clothes i don't need. less eating out.
at the same time, i am really striving to live a more green life. the composting is second nature, as is recycling every bit i can. the difference in the amount of trash i put out in the alley is amazing. i've also started really paying attention to how much packaging my products use. in my diet i am eating as close to the source as possible. cutting out convenience foods has really been a lot easier than i thought, too.
i don't mean to give the impression that this has all been easy. my schedule makes it difficult to prepare meals 2 nights a week and that translates into scrambling for lunch 2 mornings a week. food planning is difficult for me because i eat according to cravings often and those are hard to predict.
well, the homework won't do itself so i suppose i should dive back in.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Friday night
I went back to work today which has my head all turned around. I keep thinking it is Monday. Tomorrow morning I have to be at a graduate school orientation from 7:45am - 5pm, and of course this further convinces me it can't possibly be the weekend.
It was kind of nice going back. We are trying a completely new teaching model for our Special Ed students (and really the whole campus) so a lot of people are stressed out about it, but I'm doing an okay job of just going with the flow. Ask me again the night before the kids start up again and you may have a different answer....
The boychild is with his father this weekend so it was looking to be considerably more quiet around here. Unfortunately, my mom got really sick and so I'm dog watching because the puppy was going crazy in her apartment. We played fetch earlier and now we've just returned from a 30 minute walk. I was hoping that she could sleep outside tonight because there is way too much for her to chew up around here, but she is outside barking like crazy. I don't want my neighbors to hate me more than they already do.
The boyfriend had to go do some things at home and then he's stopping by the grocery store and heading back over for a late dinner. I've been craving sausage lately. (Yes, this revelation spawned endless dirty sausage jokes. We're children, what can I say. ) I'm going to cook some veggies and I'm sure we'll have rice thrown in.
It was kind of nice going back. We are trying a completely new teaching model for our Special Ed students (and really the whole campus) so a lot of people are stressed out about it, but I'm doing an okay job of just going with the flow. Ask me again the night before the kids start up again and you may have a different answer....
The boychild is with his father this weekend so it was looking to be considerably more quiet around here. Unfortunately, my mom got really sick and so I'm dog watching because the puppy was going crazy in her apartment. We played fetch earlier and now we've just returned from a 30 minute walk. I was hoping that she could sleep outside tonight because there is way too much for her to chew up around here, but she is outside barking like crazy. I don't want my neighbors to hate me more than they already do.
The boyfriend had to go do some things at home and then he's stopping by the grocery store and heading back over for a late dinner. I've been craving sausage lately. (Yes, this revelation spawned endless dirty sausage jokes. We're children, what can I say. ) I'm going to cook some veggies and I'm sure we'll have rice thrown in.
Monday, August 13, 2007
meal planning
One of the summer rituals I will miss the most once school starts back up is the leisurely sipping of my morning coffee while I browse the internet and putter around my house. This morning I am trying to plan meals for next week. Grocery shopping and meal planning are tasks that I have never mastered and I am determined that this will be the year. The boychild is starting to open his mind to different foods (ever so slightly) so I am trying to take advantage.
One thing I have noticed is that we eat a lot of meat in this house. That isn't terribly surprising, having come from a family whose livelihood was beef, but I would like to not have quite so much in my diet. In order to do this, I'm going to be eating some form of vegetarian diet on the nights I don't have the boy. His meals center around meat, and then I throw in some veggies to get him to try. Thankfully, he loves Giada's Parmesan-Crusted Porkchops because those are quickly becoming a staple in this house. I'm thinking that next week I'll make some super easy sugar carrots.
My other strategy for food is to always have meatballs, gumbo, and Giada's Simple Tomato Sauce in manageable portions in the freezer for those days that I don't have it in me to prepare a meal from scratch. I am, of course, always looking for meal planning/grocery shopping tips ;)
One thing I have noticed is that we eat a lot of meat in this house. That isn't terribly surprising, having come from a family whose livelihood was beef, but I would like to not have quite so much in my diet. In order to do this, I'm going to be eating some form of vegetarian diet on the nights I don't have the boy. His meals center around meat, and then I throw in some veggies to get him to try. Thankfully, he loves Giada's Parmesan-Crusted Porkchops because those are quickly becoming a staple in this house. I'm thinking that next week I'll make some super easy sugar carrots.
My other strategy for food is to always have meatballs, gumbo, and Giada's Simple Tomato Sauce in manageable portions in the freezer for those days that I don't have it in me to prepare a meal from scratch. I am, of course, always looking for meal planning/grocery shopping tips ;)
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