Food

[dancerjodi]

I was feeling like we were being so lazy with eating out. We had a particularly stressful couple of weeks and I thought that doing this was fine - you can't do everything all of the time and the ease of not having to worry about what to cook for dinner took some of the burden off. How we get too comfortable with being lazy though!

I'm happy to say that we've been cooking at home this week, though we'll be out tomorrow night and Saturday. Last night we ate the chicken that we had crock pot roasted the night before. Brian had rubbed it with some Indian seasonings, so I threw together a pseudo indian spinach side dish (and we had some frozen naan we bought who knows when from Trader Joe's). Not bad!

After dinner we browned some stew beef and threw it into the crock pot with other stuff: broth, lentils, black beans, KALE (we have a ton of this stuff frozen to use up), corn, and some southwest seasonings. It is a huge, huge pot and will net us leftovers, and has a lot of healthy goodies in it to boot. Yay for easy dinners!

We still need to figure out what to do with the big hunk o' pork (butt). I'm trying to plan based on what we have in the house so that we can use some things up. We've been spending more on food and on gas for the car, so cutting back in one of those areas would be a good thing. We don't need to scrimp and save every penny, but I feel wasteful when we don't (to a degree).

I'm sewing tonight for the first time in a long time, for a friend's birthday. I figure if I keep telling you people that I'm doing this, I won't blow it off for some other reason I seem to always manage to find around the house. :)

Comments

[rubicat.livejournal.com]

I hear ya on the dining-out front. Dinner mainly falls to me, and I'm just too fried to think about stuff. We recently bought a few thaw-and-bake items that will see us through nights where dinner is an afterthought. :)

As far as pork butt, it does VERY well in the Crock Pot. Add shaved onions, and then once it's all tender (low for 8-10 hours), take it out, drain the fat, shred the pork, and mix with whatever BBQ concoction you want. Presto - pulled pork! It's a nice, easy go-to and turns into leftovers quite nicely. :)

You should sew and knit when you can! I remember your alien scarf from a few years back. SO awesome!

[omly.livejournal.com]

We have been doing a lot of meal planning based on what is in the pantry (particularly our own preserved things) and the freezer in preparation for the new CSA season. I actually really like the feeling of pantry planning. It is a satisfying thing :)