Today:
C asked me “what’s oral sex?”
As we’re walking down Fell street with L and Max tumbling right behind us.

And just now, L tried to convince me that he shouldn’t take a shower because it’s bad for the drought.

Which is what I originally wanted to call this blog. It’s been a cooking intensive week, though not as butter-intensive as the title would imply. Or nearly as butter laden as I expect Thanksgiving week to be when the Southern in-laws will be here.

Week to date:
Monday:
Roast chicken on bed of tiny potatoes
Brussels sprouts roasted with country ham
Cranberry relish w tangerine and port
Tomato & mozz salad

L sat down and said “why are we having Thanksgiving now?”. then ate almost an entire breast side with not complaints (but slathered in cranberry sauce). Need to make extra in Dec and freeze it before the cranberries disappear. or figure out how to make it can-able.

Made stock with the carcass and extra bones so Tuesday could be:
Chicken pot pie- left over chicken & potatoes, carrots, peas, the stock, lots of pepper
Biscuits

Wednesday is SeaForager Day so:
Mussels steamed in white wine, onions & garlic
Baguette (no, I don’t make my own baguette. I live in SF)
Left over pot pie for the kids.

Thursday:
Haven’t settled on whether this is Sausage Pie (as I’m advertising it to C), or Galette w vegetables and Italian Sausage (when I’m talking to RCE3)
Plus, roasted beets going, because I found a huge one in buried in the back of the veg drawer.
And experimenting with home made granola bars. Mixed up a batch while cooking the bell peppers and onions for the galette, since I had the oven going already (I apparently didn’t read the recipe very closely and thought they needed to bake, turns out no, just heat the binders and mix and let cool).

After dinner report- no only did they like the pie, Clem ate it all with out picking out the veggies. Lib only picked out the red bell peppers; he ate the red onions and roasted garlic w/o comment. So a success.

The granola bars: perhaps if i’d noticed that they aren’t baked, I wouldn’t have assumed I could sub 1/4 cp agave nectar + some butter for the 1 cp rice syrup in the binding mixture. What I have right now is sweet but tasty sticky granola. I’m sticking it in the oven for 20 min to dry it out and see if it’s stick together some.

Also, I’ve been spending entirely too much time farting around the internet in the evenings. While also feeling like I need to be making something more with my time. so coming back to this is a first step.