{"id":7278,"date":"2013-06-08T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T21:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2013-06-10T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:32:33","slug":"purposely-empty-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/purposely-empty-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Purposely empty weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started writing this post while sitting in the cheap 2nd run theater waiting for Quartet<\/a> to begin. The first of two movies this weekend. Last week, Mon – Thurs., was the Teaching Academy Summer Institute<\/a> – I was a co-chair, and I think it went pretty well if I do say so myself. I was going to work Friday, but the only meeting I had got postponed to Monday, so I had Friday pretty much off, and I left this weekend open as well.<\/p>\n

Good thing I did<\/em> leave Friday open – I was toast. I got up and walked with Ann, came home and had a big breakfast of beans & toast with an egg<\/a>. I biked to my office to return the loaner laptop from the undergraduate library, and inter-d a remote and a book back to someone, and planned to bike to the East side Willy St. to do a little grocery shopping. The corner of Park & Langdon, where my office is located (Helen C. White hall<\/a>), is surrounded by construction <\/a>– there’s a hole to China with a small bike lane, and as I was wending my way through the construction, I realized I forgot to wear my helmet. Fortunately I made it to the co-op and back home again without mishap.<\/p>\n

I made this grape salad<\/a>. I’m still on a quest to use up my extra Costco fruit – I froze the apricots & strawberries to make strawberry-apricot pie, for Debbie Cardinal’s annual pie party in August. This salad would be perfect Wisconsin potluck fare, where the table of “salads” might not include a single leaf of lettuce and instead feature marshmallows, whipped topping and jello.<\/p>\n

Saturday we slept in, but I got the Smitten Kitchen big crumb coffee cake<\/a> into the oven, so we could eat it when we got back from the market. It’s very good, but needs more rhubarb, or fruit. And I do like the sour cream cake<\/a> part, a lot. I put the grape salad out, and I tried a bit of it – incredibly sweet – Mark wouldn’t even have a bite. This was one of those times when I have a little glitch in my thinking – I successfully use up some ingredients in a recipe, but the resulting dish is never eaten – so not so successful afterall. The grape salad went into the compost, after making a reappearance at Sunday breakfast, and again no one taking any.<\/p>\n

I got my 2nd CSA box on Thursday, and it was one of those times where I already had some of a lot of the things I got, either exactly or sort of. Like I got cilantro, and I had a bunch of cilantro; I got romaine lettuce and I already had 2 bunches of softer lettuces, leaf & butter; I got spinach and bok choy and already had mustard greens. So, Saturday night I made spinach enchiladas with cilantro cream sauce. There were quite a few versions on the web – I used the one with bread crumbs in the filling, and mushrooms, from a kind of junior league of Dallas-type cookbook. The sauce was supposed to be heavy cream thickened with corn starch and cilantro and garlic powder or seasoned salt; I used half & half, and fresh garlic. I think these will<\/em> get eaten.<\/p>\n

\"Spinach<\/a>

Spinach enchiladas<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday morning I made breakfast pizza, my edits<\/a> to the the Big Sur Bakery recipe – like I just bake it on parchment – I don’t have a pizza peel.<\/p>\n

\"Breakfast<\/a>

Breakfast pizza with bacon & eggs<\/p><\/div>\n

Before the pizza, I walked with Rachael. After, took the clean laundry over to E. Wash, bought a new lawn mower, and saw What Maisie Knew<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next up, finish the crumb cake, with ice cream and some extra rhubarb sauce, and season finale, Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>

Big crumb rhubarb cake<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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