Fried rice with chicken, corn, and snap peas.
Another victory in the ongoing struggle to convince my father that he does, in fact, like vegetables.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
What I Made for Dinner: May 16, 2010
Chicken cutlets and pasta puttanesca, sauteed broccoli with garlic.
My boys are back and I am so happy, not least because I have someone to cook for again! It was relaxing when it was just Eli and me, because he isn't interested in food much these days so I got to eat like I was single.
(By the way, I believe this not-eating thing with Eli will pass eventually. He has never been a great eater but it's gotten a little worse as he approaches his third birthday. It's disturbing to live with a person who is perfectly content with three bites of a bagel for breakfast, a bowl of pretzels and apple slices for lunch, and recriminations for dinner. But at the same age, Josh and Alex, who had always loved to eat, went through this thing too. It passed. We like our food in this family; I have confidence Eli will get there. For now, though, as a dining companion he ranges from indifferent to hostile.)
Anyway, it was kind of fun to eat whatever I felt like. All of these dinners came from when I was first out on my own and learning to cook to please myself.
Leftover rotisserie chicken with broccoli and sun-dried tomatoes. This is too much food for one person, but I got lunch the next day and I got to use up leftovers. Win.
One night, my parents came over and we had wine and cheese for dinner, but my mom brought some asparagus and I felt we needed a vegetable. This is sauteed in olive oil, garlic, and sourdough breadcrumbs.
And finally, if I'm not that hungry, a baked tortilla with mashed avocado. If I was hungrier, I might add rice with tomato sauce and a fried egg.
No more single eating for a while now!
My boys are back and I am so happy, not least because I have someone to cook for again! It was relaxing when it was just Eli and me, because he isn't interested in food much these days so I got to eat like I was single.
(By the way, I believe this not-eating thing with Eli will pass eventually. He has never been a great eater but it's gotten a little worse as he approaches his third birthday. It's disturbing to live with a person who is perfectly content with three bites of a bagel for breakfast, a bowl of pretzels and apple slices for lunch, and recriminations for dinner. But at the same age, Josh and Alex, who had always loved to eat, went through this thing too. It passed. We like our food in this family; I have confidence Eli will get there. For now, though, as a dining companion he ranges from indifferent to hostile.)
Anyway, it was kind of fun to eat whatever I felt like. All of these dinners came from when I was first out on my own and learning to cook to please myself.
Leftover rotisserie chicken with broccoli and sun-dried tomatoes. This is too much food for one person, but I got lunch the next day and I got to use up leftovers. Win.
One night, my parents came over and we had wine and cheese for dinner, but my mom brought some asparagus and I felt we needed a vegetable. This is sauteed in olive oil, garlic, and sourdough breadcrumbs.
And finally, if I'm not that hungry, a baked tortilla with mashed avocado. If I was hungrier, I might add rice with tomato sauce and a fried egg.No more single eating for a while now!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
What I Made for Dinner: May 12, 2010
Baked stuffed artichokes and cheese ravioli with sun-dried tomatoes and basil in olive oil.
I had to rush, squeezing my cooking time in between grading and running errands and getting the boys ready to go away tomorrow. I wanted to make dinner for the family, though. It will just be me and E at home for the next few days. My big guys are going on a trip, their first without me, and it's freaking me out a little.
I hope they are nice to each other. I hope they look out for each other and don't eat too much garbage and remember to brush their teeth and wear sunblock. I hope they have fun!
I had to rush, squeezing my cooking time in between grading and running errands and getting the boys ready to go away tomorrow. I wanted to make dinner for the family, though. It will just be me and E at home for the next few days. My big guys are going on a trip, their first without me, and it's freaking me out a little.
I hope they are nice to each other. I hope they look out for each other and don't eat too much garbage and remember to brush their teeth and wear sunblock. I hope they have fun!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
What I Made for Dinner: May 5-9, 2010
A little of this, a little of that.
I don't even know, I'm so deep into the grading process and end-of-school-year activities for the kids. Every time I turn around, there's a Last Dinner for this and a Dinner Meeting for that and an anxiety attack for that other thing I forgot about. Before you know it, it has been a week and the kids have been eating frozen pizza and scrambled eggs and the grownups have been eating sauteed asparagus and popcorn and Eli has had more than one dinner of pretzels and carrots dipped in peanut butter.
There was something last weekend, I think . . . a night when Chuck grilled hamburgers. I made pasta salad with kalamata olives and the last of last summer's basil pesto. Sunday was Mother's Day. What did we do? We got a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and I made some really good wilted spinach with caramelized onion. It's all getting a little blurry.
Anyhow, tonight I am heating up leftovers, although not of anything that I personally cooked. There's a little bit of India Palace takeout that's looking pretty good. The leftover rotisserie chicken will go into pasta with sauteed broccoli and garlic and olive oil, which I will admire for its thrift but which the children probably won't eat.
Next week will be back to our regularly-scheduled programming, I am pretty sure. I surely hope so.
I don't even know, I'm so deep into the grading process and end-of-school-year activities for the kids. Every time I turn around, there's a Last Dinner for this and a Dinner Meeting for that and an anxiety attack for that other thing I forgot about. Before you know it, it has been a week and the kids have been eating frozen pizza and scrambled eggs and the grownups have been eating sauteed asparagus and popcorn and Eli has had more than one dinner of pretzels and carrots dipped in peanut butter.
There was something last weekend, I think . . . a night when Chuck grilled hamburgers. I made pasta salad with kalamata olives and the last of last summer's basil pesto. Sunday was Mother's Day. What did we do? We got a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and I made some really good wilted spinach with caramelized onion. It's all getting a little blurry.
Anyhow, tonight I am heating up leftovers, although not of anything that I personally cooked. There's a little bit of India Palace takeout that's looking pretty good. The leftover rotisserie chicken will go into pasta with sauteed broccoli and garlic and olive oil, which I will admire for its thrift but which the children probably won't eat.
Next week will be back to our regularly-scheduled programming, I am pretty sure. I surely hope so.
Monday, May 3, 2010
What I Made for Dinner: May 3, 2010
Steamed tilapia with scallions and ginger.
Chuck's cousin (and mine, I guess? By marriage and marriage?) Sarah pointed me to this recipe randomizer (which uses the F-Word a tremendous amount so if a person has a constitution that's not up to seeing an F-Word he should not click the link but really, what would such a person be doing on the Internet in the first place) and it led me here and I have to say, that first site (which extremely delicate and sensitive people should not visit lest they see an F-Word) is very handy.
Chuck's cousin (and mine, I guess? By marriage and marriage?) Sarah pointed me to this recipe randomizer (which uses the F-Word a tremendous amount so if a person has a constitution that's not up to seeing an F-Word he should not click the link but really, what would such a person be doing on the Internet in the first place) and it led me here and I have to say, that first site (which extremely delicate and sensitive people should not visit lest they see an F-Word) is very handy.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
What I Made for Dinner: May 2, 2010
Grilled chicken breasts; salad of asparagus, yellow pepper, and hearts of palm.
We celebrated a gorgeous weekend of gardening (and soccer--lots of soccer) with a lovely meal cooked on the grill and eaten on the patio. Thanks to a fun and productive day with my friend Holly, I have the herb garden in
and an excessive number of tomato plants.
(You can't tell. There's eight. If they all make it, that's a lot of tomatoes.) I also have a seriously uncool left-side-only sunburn from working in the morning. Enough distractions! Back to grading.
We celebrated a gorgeous weekend of gardening (and soccer--lots of soccer) with a lovely meal cooked on the grill and eaten on the patio. Thanks to a fun and productive day with my friend Holly, I have the herb garden in |
| Hi,sideways Teddy! |
(You can't tell. There's eight. If they all make it, that's a lot of tomatoes.) I also have a seriously uncool left-side-only sunburn from working in the morning. Enough distractions! Back to grading.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Why I Haven't Made Dinner: April 25-May 1, 2010
I am grading final papers. Between that and the ordinary press of business, Chuck and I have managed to keep the children nourished, but not interestingly.Back to the land of the living shortly, with any luck.
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