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Food I Have
Produce
1 onion
dried tomatoes
2 apples
1 roasted sweet potato
tomatoes (red, green, and in between)
moldy carrots
kale
ginger
roasted garlic
5 small-medium zucchini
brussel sprouts
apple cider
orange juice

Meat and the like
1 jar of vegetable stock
2 oz chicken breast, cut up
carnitas
bacon
5 eggs
a whole bunch of stuff in the freezer (including freezer-tasting beef)

Dairy
Only 3 creamers (pick up more from work)
lots of 6oz containers of yogurt
tail end of a sour cream container
cheese (cream, cheddar, smoked cheddar, sharp stuff from Milk’n’Honey)

Prepared food
pie crust
4-6 servings of butternut squash soup
green tomato salsa

Scheduling that
Monday, October 19
breakfast: kale and tomatoes cooked down with sour Thai curry paste – poached egg on top
12:30 go to work
dinner: soup – pretzels and cheesy dip made from carnitas, cheddar, cream cheese, and salsa
tasks: vacuum bedroom and kitchen
watch Criminal Minds

Tuesday, October 20
8:30-9:45 yoga
tasks: gardening – continue tying up the roma tomato plant and harvesting from it.
food prep – cut herbs and fill up jar of herbed mayonnaise
make roasted garlic and parsley cream cheese
breakfast – bacon, egg, and bagel
tasks: take lunches in to work
2:30 go to work
finish menu planning for Roman cooking workshop
claim missing issues of Economist, Newsweek, Time, and Jet
steal more creamers from work
7:15-8:15 belly dancing
dinner – chicken, last of the carrots, and a zucchini with some curry paste (start a new can) and rice noodles. Without coconut milk? (divide out a portion to freeze for lunch)
prep laundry
pull out a steak to thaw
put away any miscellany on the kitchen or bedroom tables
watch Criminal Minds

Wednesday, October 21
ETA: wake up before dawn and see if there is any of the Orionids meteor shower visible in the city
tasks: get laundry washed and hung on the line (without stepping in crap from the new neighbor’s dog)
breakfast: zucchini, pork, and tomato in scrambled eggs
watch Criminal Minds
buy produce from the truck (onions, lemons, limes, peeled garlic – anything else?)
11am Karate (yeah, probably not)
12:30 go to work
email PhilCon guests
research bus tours in Rome
dinner: beef, brussel sprouts, and onion stir fry
bring laundry in and put away
move pork roast from freezer -> fridge
watch Criminal Minds

Thursday, October 22
8:30am go to work (pack bag with yoga clothes, hip scarves, veil, towel, and water bottle)
9:30am go to free breakfast
bind more periodicals
sort the microfilm ILL slips
5:14 bus to yoga
6-7:30 yoga
8-9 belly dancing
dinner: soup, smoked cheddar on the last of the saltines, apple
clean bathroom
watch last of the Criminal Minds

Friday, October 23
8:30-9:30 pilates
10-11:30 yoga
vacuum
wash out cat’s water bowl
buy groceries – peanut butter, dish soap, crackers, pasta sauce (anything else?)
12:30 go to work
9:05 bus home
have people over to watch Carnivale
dinner: soup
1am – drive out to West Chester

Saturday, October 24
9am – West Chester farmers market – exchange butter
go back home and go with parents to British pub for breakfast
Booth’s Corner
drive home
Any groceries still needed for Roman cooking workshop?
house clean?
Is there any Criminal Minds left unwatched? Supernatural? Merlin?
4-5:30 yoga
dinner: soup, carnitas quesadilla

Sunday, October 25
9:30 – put pork loin in water with bay leaves and start cooking on low/medium
10-11:30 yoga
11:45-12:45 pilates
1pm – make bed, tidy things
2pm Roman cooking workshop
6pm kick everybody out
clean
sleep

Monday, October 26
6:45-7:45 yoga?
wash dishes
10-11:15 yoga
12:30 go to work

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.

~*~

Chances of all of that happening with none falling by the wayside? Approaching 0%, but we’ll see.

Food I have
Produce
1 apple
1 pears
6 radishes
spinach (5oz baby, 5 oz adult)
collard greens
2 cucumbers
snow peas
1 yellow squash (aging)
1 red bell pepper
4 rhubarb stalks
lemons
limes
carrots
several pounds of pecans

Prepared produce
roasted eggplant
4 heads roasted garlic
2/3 can of tomato sauce (transferred to a jar)
chipotle salsa
chipotle in adobo sauce
tahini
hummus
orange juice
lemonade
soy milk

Dairy
sour cream
tzatziki
labneh
2/3 quart whole (unhomogenized) milk

Bread
end of a cheese/pepperoni bread
pita chips
tortillas

Meat
beef strips marinated in black pepper sauce and pineapple juice

Meals from that
Thursday, June 25
breakfast: cereal with sliced apple on top w/ soy milk; 2 pears
dinner: out at an Indian restaurant (acquire mint clippings)
prep: set meusli to soak for Friday’s breakfast; candy rhubarb

Friday, June 26
breakfast: meusli – oats, milk, orange juice, dried fruit, pecans
lunch: at conference
5:30 dinner: quick spinach salad (grab tzatziki, hummus, pita chips, snow peas, and a serving dish)
7pm party

Saturday, June 27
breakfast: yogurt
10am yoga
11:45 pilates
1pm – second breakfast: greens on a bagel w/ cream cheese
(*hand off bridge table to its owner)
go to parents’
dinner: make dinner for parents – no idea what to make, since my father has been having trouble keeping food down lately

Sunday, June 28
breakfast: yogurt w/ candied rhubarb
10am yoga
noon: try breakfast at new cafe
2pm – D&D, dinner with those folks. Possible pack up some spinach for a side salad

Monday, June 29
breakfast: greens on a bagel
11am – meeting with home ownership services to see about programs to help me buy a house some day
1-9 work
dinner: turn roasted eggplant into Baigan Bhartha

Tuesday, June 30
breakfast: omelet w/ herbs
dinner: stir fry – marinating beef, yellow squash, red bell pepper, onion, carrot

Wednesday, July 1
go to produce truck