I have three meals of food in my fridge – if only I have three nights of energy to make them.
Meal #1 – stir fry
beef, already cut in strips (but I haven’t added a marinade)
kohlrabi
onions
snow peas
fennel
Meal #2 – quesadillas
Mexican chorizo
leftover sauteed onions & peppers
summer squash
cheese
tortillas
salsa (not yet made)
Meal #3 – imam bayaldi
eggplants
leeks
tomatoes
parsley
olive oil
food in fridge not accounted for:
chicken leftovers
the rest of the summer squash
green beans
melon
more tomatoes
Tuesday, August 4
9pm go home promptly
line a baking sheet with foil
split green tomatoes in halves and set to roasting (350F)
clear off sewing table and pull out sewing machine
turn roasting pan
get out sewing machine, plug it in, and find white thread
wash japanese eggplants. Peel in strips and place in soup pot until the base if covered, no more (if there is eggplant left over, it’s going in the stir fry). Add olive oil to the soup pot and brown the eggplant, turning as you go.
Mark up the pants, and pin them while you are standing around turning the eggplant.
put roasted tomatoes in a container in the fridge.
Microwave cooked leeks, chop up tomatoes, chop garlic, chop parsley, squeeze lemon into a teacup and mix in sugar and some water
fill eggplants, pour liquid over, close up pot, lower heat, and let cook for 45 minutes.
hem pants
Wednesday, August 5
If pants are not hemmed yet, hem them OMG!
if pants are hemmed, vacuum floor.
breakfast: slice up the rest of friend’s bread and toast it. Mix together diced fresh tomato, roasted garlic, basil, and balsamic vinegar. Eat bruschetta.
toast some blueberry muffins and top with blueberry jelly.
set out work clothing
pack to take to work: peach chipotle jam
on way to karate, see if the thrift store has a bit canning pot
10:20am – karate!
1pm-9pm work work work
2pm – pop head out to the farmers’ market and offer to trade jam for more free peaches
9pm – leave work promptly (hopefully, lugging peaches home)
wash and slice all the summer squash, sautee it with fajita seasoning
pull the green tomatoes out of the fridge and remove the skins. Make salsa out of them.
stir a marinade into the stir fry beef
Pull the squash out and sautee the sausage. Add the onions and peppers in at the end.
make a salsa from fresh tomatoes?
pre-treat laundry?
make quesadillas and eat them – nom nom nom
save leftovers bits that didn’t fit in quesadillas.
Thursday, August 5
remove pie crust from fridge
8:30am take laundry to laundromat
slice open melon and eat it.
put pie crust in pie plate and prick
retrieve laundry and hang to dry
bake pie crust
plant cherry tomato plant?
buy dairy product?
put into crust:
– leftover chorizo
– leftover cooked squash
– parsley, lovage, thyme, savory
– leftover chicken
– any leftover cooked leek
– cheese
– eggs
– dairy
Make a quiche!
Don’t have time to eat the quiche, so pop it, loosely covered, in the fridge
go to work
work work work
9pm – come home promptly
remove clothes from line and put away
make stir fry!
read book for book group
Friday, August 7
cut a slice of quiche and take it to work for breakfast! Be smug.
pack to take to work: exercise clothes, grey yarn, roma tomatoes, a few regular tomatoes
9-5 work
5:30-6:45 yoga
7pm – dinner – of quiche!
8-11pm book group
come home and cut up some peaches and sugar them – put in refrigerator
Saturday, August 8
wake up early and cut and sugar the rest of the peaches
10-11:30 yoga
11:45-12:45 pilates
1pm go home and bathe, OMG! (yes, theoretically this has happened a few more times in the schedule, but still)
possibly eat – bagel and cream cheese? With a fried egg? Or maybe, just maybe, there might be some quiche left.
get character sheet and take a jar of peach sauce over to gaming group for hanging out and experimental food.
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Chances of all of that happening with none falling by the wayside? Approaching 0%, but we’ll see.