I think I’ll make mushroom risotto for dinner tonight – so the big question is whether I want to stick with what I know’ll be tasty or whether I want to try to add bacon and a tiny bit of maple syrup to change things up a bit.
I’m not usually a fan of maple syrup, but I think the bacon I usually use (for breakfast and stuff, I haven’t tried it in risotto yet) will taste… classier… with a bit of syrup drizzled about.
ETA: a drizzle of maple syrup worked even better than I expected.
this place in chinatown has all you can eat sushi… I think for $22, but I didn’t write that down.
According to the woman on the phone (who was busy and might be wrong), it is available Mon-Thurs 11:30am – 10:30pm and Fridays 11:30am – 11:30pm.
I work 1-9pm. So I could either go very early or very late – or on a day I am off.
Would anyone else be interested in:
And, no, I have no idea how good the sushi is. I’ve never eaten there before, either.
[redacted] – you should tell me whether any of these meals pleases you, or whether there should also be random (KFC-type) food planned for Sunday!
food I have
Produce
parsley
thyme
green papaya (1/2)
carrots
roasted red pepper
cucumber and onion salad
lots of potatoes
1 perfect feeling avocado
meat
1/2 chicken (dark meat only left)
leftover beef roast
eel!
salmon
duck stock
and I am going to buy a bottom round roast because they’re on sale
dairy
plain yogurt
half & half
cream cheese
sliced cheese nicked from reception at work
bread
2 1/2 onion rolls
tortillas
1-2 cups of leftover saffron basmati rice
meals
Thursday, November 15
salmon will probably go off first, so I’ll have that tonight!
Maybe with mashed potatoes
Friday
breakfast – eel over rice
dinner – D&D munchies
(buy an apple and make more chicken/papaya curry (based vaguely on this recipe) to freeze with the basmati rice)
Saturday
stuffing my face on free food?
quesadillas with avocado, red pepper, and any leftover seafood
(Make chili)
(boil stock and put in fresh container)
Sunday
Chili?
(buy sour cream)
(Make some kind of other soup to use up the stock?)
That leaves me with an unused roast of beef – the kind you need to make in thin slices… maybe stroganoff
So I have occasional dates with a chef. It’s lovely.
And he brought gifts! I might have mentioned that I would occasionally like flowers, but this was better – he brought me salmon and eel and cucumber salad. That’s true romance.
Then he cooked the salmon for me (powdered garlic and ginger, 5 spice powder, ground nutmeg, and cracked brown mustard on the fish cooked in just a little olive and sesame oil, deglazed with rice vinegar and soy sauce, with sticky rice on the side), and we had some islay scotch to go with.
So usually I try to cook for him, instead of the other way around, because there’s less fun in doing for your down time what you do for work. But every now and then, it’s rather fun – and he’s generous about it.
Man am I grumpy today.
I went to put the cover I bought to let the wicker couch I got for free survive the winter, and it didn’t quite fit. With the little wicker legs sticking out, there is a much greater chance of it (a)not surviving or (b)getting stolen. But I can’t bring myself to buy a chain for it because there’s nothing I can think of to chain it to that I am not willing to have damaged in an attempt to steal the couch.
However, while I was wrestling with the couch, I noticed that the last time the grass had been mowed, they had also mowed flat my blackberry brambles. It’s not like it wasn’t the fucking neighborhood drunk doing the mowing – and I know he knows that those are my fucking blackberries! If he thought he was pruning them for the winter, he could have just asked and I would have told him that they aren’t going to produce a single fucking blackberry until they can grow for *two* years. Fucker. And it’s not like he even bothered to mow down the *weeds* in the yard, either. If I’d noticed before that he’d done that, I wouldn’t have loaned his girlfriend (the former neighborhood cat lady) $5 this week.
Also, scheduling will not work for this weekend. Nothing. There are 15 things I could do, and none of them want to work work with the others. Also, I want a weekend off. Though it I have a weekend off, there are projects at home I need to work on that I have been very successfully procrastinating. And that’s not buddies a weekend off at all.