Since the last time I posted a new blog entry, I've quit my job, spent Sam's summer break going on endless field trips, slowly but surely worked toward getting my homemaking back on track, and gotten him back to school. It's been a little nuts, and I've started and abandoned several posts that just never got finished before they were irrelevant. But now Sam's back in school roughly 3 hours every day. So I've got time to take on a project each day, cook every night, and pretty much get my "poop in a group", as my mom says. Yesterday, the first day of school, I cleaned out our minivan from a summer's worth of straw wrappers, toys, abandoned hoodies and shoes, and whatever else was back there. Before I stopped watching Maggie, I had flipped the third row bench under so that I had a huge flat surface to put both strollers in, but it wound up full of other stuff eventually. No more. The third row is back up where it belongs and the cargo space is now limited to what will fit behind it. Whew.
Last night I plotted out a menu plan for the entire month of September in this nifty software called Cozi. I have the app for my phone but the menu planning is only available on their desktop website, so I was using that on my pitiful little netbook. It's pretty neat, though: you can enter all the recipes you use regularly (including links if the recipe is online) and then drag and drop them onto dates. There's even an option to add the recipe's ingredients to your grocery list (which is available on the mobile app, natch.) The only thing it seems to be missing is a social networking piece. It would be cool to have the option to share links to my recipes with notes either here, on Twitter or on Facebook. A lot of my friends on Facebook have been posting about wanting healthy dinner recipes and whole food cooking ideas, so I figured an easy thing for me to do over the course of the month would be to blog each recipe as I cook it. Days which are repeats will be posts that I write a little more about what's on my mind or what's going on in our lives, but days which are new recipes will be mostly devoted to the menu.
Last night was my Zucchini Pasta, which I have already written about here, therefore I'm not going to rehash the whole recipe. Wednesday was the final day of the MN Zoo Farmer's Market for the summer, but I was still able to get a few onions and a pound of yellow squash. Many of the other local markets go through Halloween so I may have to get a new favorite. :) One thing I tried with the squash was to slice it using the slicey side of a cheese grater. It did NOT go well. Those things are not sharp enough to slice produce neatly. So I dragged out the mandolin slicer after all, and got two kitchen implements dirty. Sigh.
Tonight, pork roast! Will post about it tomorrow. (Note: not a particularly healthy recipe. Potentially high in fat. Contains refined sugar, ketchup, and soy sauce.)
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