Tuesday, 8/29/17

Carter's dream finally came true: Dinner at UMass.  I think he had pizza and burgers. Why even bother? I tried the sushi, stir fry, pho, spring rolls and a salad (yes, I was enormously full after). The only letdown was dessert, but I did have some soft serve (the second of the day) with Butterfingers which was pretty good.

Monday, 8/28/17

The chicken casserole was quite immense, so we had leftovers, along with a tomato salad.

Sunday, 8/27/17

Occasionally I see a casserole recipe that I just have to try. This one was from Homesick Texan, and included chicken (I poached a few breasts), roasted cherry tomatoes, onions and hot peppers, pepperjack cheese and noodles. I used shells instead of the called for spaghetti and threw in some sauteed kale to make it a one dish meal. I could not stop eating this, picking at it long after dinner was over. I realize that is is just a variation of the green chile macaroni and cheese that I love, so it is unsurprising that I went for this.

Saturday, 8/26/17

Carter helped me make dessert for Jennie and David's: an apple cake with a brown sugar glaze that he didn't even try. Too bad , because it was delicious, especially with the maple whipped cream I made (against Jason's advice). Everyone seemed to really like it, so I may have finally found my apple cake. The only thing I changed was adding some bourbon to the glaze.
And Jason made an exemplary onion bread.

Friday, 8/25/17

Still working on the freezer: some who knows how old frozen fish from Trader Joe's. The label had partly come off so I don't even know what it was. Pollock, maybe? Anyway, I didn't do it any favors by WAY overcooking it. This was the toughest piece of fish ever. I have had salt cod that was more tender. I made a delicious fresh tomato salsa to go on top, but it didn't help at all. Luckily, we had a loaf of bread with bacon and onions from Jason, and some roasted cauliflower (served with some of the spicy fish sauce sauce again). Even Jason didn't like the fish (although he ate more that I did). I gave Carter some fish sticks instead.

Thursday, 8/24/17

Corrina and I spent the day (and night) in North Adams, having fun adventures. We tried Public for dinner and really enjoyed it. We shared: fancy chicken fingers with fancy sauces, a really lovely cheese board with blueberry chutney, tomato jam and housemade pickles, fried chick peas, and a tomato-mozzarella salad that had tomatoes that were so good that they stole the thunder from the mozz. The only low point was dessert: an OK but not exciting chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich for Deem, and a very dry citrus cake for me. But overall really tasty and fun. Happy birthday to us!

Wednesday, 8/23/17

Dinner in Whately! My mom made asian style chicken tacos reminiscent of some we tried from a food truck, but of course hers were better. Plus corn (on and off the cob) and watermelon. AND she picked up a nice chocolate cake for the Corrina/Lace birthday combo.