I also picked up a few cookbooks at the library to look for new recipes, including one full of lunch box ideas. It’s nice to have lunches for the week made ahead of time, but I could use more ideas.
i like to roll them into tubes as it’s much easier to handle them in and out of the bag…
Anyhoo, I found a new way to make egg crepes that’s sooooo much easier, called Dan Bing (https://youtu.be/53OE8BIdRr4?si=ig9S_gaLFqQCbDXZ). Granted I don’t get a runny yolk this way, but meh, I’ll take easier over yummier right now,
Also, my bucket gardens are doing quite well. The romaine lettuce, mustard greens, are at a usable size. Unfortunately, only have one spinach plant that made it, so I only get a few leaves, but I’ll chop up some mesclun and young sunflower leaves every so often to change it up. (quite a few volunteer sunflowers are coming up all over my yard, heh).
The store didn’t have pocket pitas, so I just used the pitas they had & used toothpicks to keep them closed until I was ready to eat. It was a lot messier, but it worked.
We have sliders pretty regularly in our house. Ground beef (obvi) for my husband and daughter, and some veg version for me. Tonight’s was mushroom walnut and it might be my fave so far:
oh hoooo hoho hoooooo! I call cottage cheese ice cream to pester my wife when I put sugar in it, and while eating some ice cream a while ago, I thought, “i wonder what it’d be like as a cheesecake”. To which, I decided to make my lazy bread pudding with it…
Also, I probably won’t taste it fully, , but hopefully I can taste it enough,
probably kind of dumb to write the recipe, but this is how I made it.
1/4 C. Cottage cheese (it really doesn’t need to be that much. I just wanted more, )
1 large egg
1+1/2 Tbls. Sugar
1/2 to 1/4th tsp. Vanilla
1+1/2 slices of bread
1 or 2 Tbls. Milk
OH NOOOOOOO! I forgot the butter. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Oh well…oh well…Will have to see how it turns out, anyway…Yeeesh!
So that would mean 1 tablespoon salted butter, and then use two slices of bread instead of 1+1/2…That would explain why it seemed a little off.
I’ll have to remind myself to use this in moderation…Man, I love mushrooms, , And thank the mushroom gods I can still taste them (at least more so than salt and sugars).
But the question is what? I have been wanting to make some pot pies (as I think I have a cheatIng way of doing so that won’t put too much strain on my back…buuut, I still have to keep a counter cleaned, ).
I cooked some mushrooms & onions for dinner tonight! I mixed them with rice made with chicken broth for a side with some tilapia and steamed broccoli & carrots. They turned out pretty good.
Wasn’t until after I was done that I realized I should not have used a metal pan…great. will have to make sure I put it into a glass dish once it chills.
Also, should have gotten more veggies, . Celery, potatoes, mushrooms, and brocolli just wasn’t enough. Meh, (for what I can taste) I like it.
One thing interesting about these olfactory and gustatory alterations, things that I’m sure don’t taste that great seem to be really good.
i made another aioli, but I added ginger to it. Then I took about a teaspoon of it and added about a tablespoon of mayonaise with some onion powder and made some chicken sandwiches with it. It tasted a loooot better than it should have. So this means that I just have to discover new tastes…Still kind of blows chunks. I wont be able to share them with anyone else, . Meh, more food for me, .
Father-in-law gets some old wilted food from a local food donation place, so I’m boiling three orange beets and one kohlrabi to make a broth. I really don’t know what I’ll do with them, but so far, and if I feel up to it, I’ll turn them into gnocchi.
Presumably beets are supposed to be good for blood pressure, so going to see how that works, heh.
Also, going to try to root these for extra greens. I doubt the beet tops will make it, but meh, won’t hurt to try.
Hah! Anyway, I ground pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds with a dash of sugar and salt (i can taste them again, but it’s still a little different), and added a small sprinkle of sunflower oil to make a sun-pump-butter…i can definitely do this more often,
).
, oh well.
, but hopefully I can taste it enough, 
NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Oh well…oh well…Will have to see how it turns out, anyway…Yeeesh!
