Wednesday, 4/28/21

 Breakfast for dinner, semi-successful. The good: Aldi breakfast sausage links are excellent (especially when you don't accidentally buy the maple flavored). The meh: I overcrowded the oven with tater tot crowns and some of them were a little burnt. The disappointment: I tried to combine two tricks I have read for scrambled eggs: mix them in a blender, and salt them a few minutes before cooking them. I should add here that my regular old egg-scrambling technique works fine! I just add a little milk and sriracha and scramble them in a nonstick pan with butter. The biggest variation seems to come form how busy I am and how much attention I am paying. Anyway, these stupid eggs stuck like anything and had an unattractive look. Jason and I had mushrooms, onions, peppers and queso fresco in ours, and they were (literally) a hot mess. Oh well, it tasted fine. I won't try to get scientific again.

Tuesday, 4/27/21

 I accidentally saved a bunch of vegetarian recipes from the NYT, and I was deleting them, one for "Cheesy Smoky Black Beans " caught my eye. This turned out to be an extremely quick, economical and tasty dinner! I only changed a couple of things: added some onion, and skipped pepper flakes in favor of chiles in adobo (I could have added more, but didn't want it to be too spicy). Served with avacado, queso fresco, lime and corn chips, plus another Caesar salad. I used canned beans as per the recipe, but dried would also be excellent. Will definitely make again.

Monday, 4/26/21

 Fairly simple dinner of stovetop macaroni and cheese (from Serious Eats), plus a Caesar salad. Both were OK; I think I prefer the more traditional baked macaroni and cheese, but you can't argue with the ease of this recipe. Maybe a more exciting cheese blend would have helped.

Sunday, 4/25/21

 After a lot of hemmong and hawing about what to have for dinner, I finally decided on a tofu scramble with peppers, onions and mushrooms. I added some queso fresco, cilantro and a Goya seasoning packet, and it was surprisingly good! It was actually a little better than homefries, which is what I was going for. The crumbled tofu got nice and crispy in a way that I have trouble with getting potatoes to do. We also had french toast (at Jason's request) which was fine. So a slightly better than I expected dinner, which is good since I went into it with a bad attitude.

Saturday, 4/24/21

 Just leftover broccoli fritters and orzo (which didn't re-heat super well. Too dry). I also made a coffee coffee cake (not a typo) from "Dessert Person". A regular coffee cake with coffee flavors; I like it well enough but Jason was very grumpy that I deviated from my usual Richard Sax recipe. I have to be me!

Friday, 4/23/21

Dinner was (again) a little late, since the baked orzo with spinach and feta took longer than I realized. At least it was a Friday night, so Jason was able to drink a little Scotch and eat some chips so the poor little fellow wasn't starving. The orzo was all I served, since it had eggs, pasta, cheese and vegetables. It was tasty enough, even without the called-for bacon.

Thursday, 4/22/21

 What should have been a very quick dinner (bread, cheese and deviled eggs)  was delayed when I decided to also make broccoli fritters (from SK). Nothing like a hungry, grumpy husband pacing around the kitchen! So we just sort of ate in phases. I thought the fritters were excellent, even if everyone else would have been happy with plain broccoli. The bread was fine, and Carter devoured the eggs, so that was dinner.