Remix

Maybe I'll just start calling all leftovers "remix," that way they won't seem so, well, left over...here's a not great picture of masaman curry, day two. As I think I mentioned, it wasn't very good yesterday, so tonight I added another can of curry paste and put it on a "bed of" (that's a strange phrase, isn't it? seems like the food will rest peacefully rather than be gobbled up) rice and sauteed spinach.

By the way, the kids had hot dogs with their rice and spinach. Oh, and ice cream sandwiches for dessert~

Karate and Doughnuts

The kids were invited to a karate birthday party at the Shidokan late this afternoon. I knew I wouldn't have time to make dinner, so I actually planned ahead and made it this morning.
Hello?
Get up, I know that declaration just made you fall off your chair, but this really is me still.
So I made some massaman curry. Unfortunately, in trying to be thrifty and using coconut milk and curry paste of indeterminate age, I left flavor by the roadside. It wasn't nearly as good as usual, but Hot Salt returned it to an edible state.
Wish I had a picture of the really cute "doughnut cake" that the moms of the birthday kids prepared for the party today. Since Koji and Izumi were just guests at the party and not guests of honor, I hadn't bothered to bring my camera along. Bad decision! Now I can't show you what I mean...I did ask several people around to send me a photo so if/when I get one, I will post it. Watch this space.

Proper Food

Feels like days since I actually cooked anything, which means that of course, I got crackin' on that tonight when I really had no business doing so. In other words, I didn't have time but I wanted to go with my idea before my ingredients started going downhill. Spinach salad with warm dressing to make it a teensy bit wilty. It was OK but not exactly as I imagined. I still have spinach and I'm going to try and tweak it tomorrow, so I won't say any more on how to make it for now. Rice and Shrimp in Chili Sauce; too spicy for the kids so they had meatballs, peas, rice, pumpkin soup. And Koji had pumpkin pie for dessert.

Udon

With wakame in a broth of

4 c dashi, 2T soy sauce, 2T mirin. Except, full disclosure, we were out of mirin so put in a bit of honey. Kabocga, pumpkin pie ?
Who knows , I'm falling asleep.....

Carrots

Tonight's dinner was lazy since Aogu wasn't here; as I was throwing it together, I had the kids gnawing on the carrots you see pictured. And no, Izumi's not quite as psycho as her off center goggles make her look...in addition to raw carrots, the kids also had hot carrots, natto gohan and tofu with popsicles for dessert. I stir-fried some green pepper, onion, garlic, ginger and tofu to go with my carrots and rice. I overdid it on the ginger, but managed to balance it with some ponzu (citrus flavored soy sauce). Not an evening to brag about on the culinary front, but hey, we're all still alive, and I have this funny picture to show for it!

For at Least the 22nd Time

So I have to give myself grace for not blogging what we had for dinner every single day this whole year, right? I mean, after all, I did have a baby. But I can't help regretting it a bit now, just because it would be so interesting to know how many times we ate certain favorites.

What I can tell you for sure is that out of the 124 posts I've put up this year, 21 mention pizza.

And this is the 22nd.

Thanksgiving Dinner

was on the menu tonight, courtesy of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, which is the host church for the kids' school.

It was a dinner/potluck, as the church provided most of the traditional staples but asked that each family bring a dish to share. All two friends I polled beforehand agreed that I should contribute a dessert. But when I opened the fridge this afternoon with the intention of baking a cake, the butter had gone missing. That is, I used it all on the cookies and coffee cake I made the other day for the Craft Social.

So I made a cranberry apple walnut pie instead, and it was very good, if I do say so myself. Of course I forgot to take a picture of it. More about it tomorrow though, because that's when I'm planning to post a couple of the other pictures we took at the dinner tonight. Can't do it right now because the camera is in the van and that is much too far from where I'm sitting.