{"id":8234,"date":"2014-01-18T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T05:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2014-03-16T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T03:46:06","slug":"a-weeks-worth-of-winter-dinners-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/a-weeks-worth-of-winter-dinners-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"A week’s worth of winter dinners<\/del> meals"},"content":{"rendered":"

With very few pictures.<\/p>\n

Monday we had leftover lasagna, with salad & garlic toast on the no knead bread I made Saturday<\/a>. I tried to go easy on the lasagna and eat a lot of salad, but Rach came back with Trader Joe’s chocolate and I had to have some. She quoted one her grandmas “Darling, you need the sugar to seal yer stomach” – spoken in good east coast old lady Jewish accent. I was also chasing the garlic taste out of my mouth.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday I cooked the cover of a recent Bon Appetit<\/a>. Kale (recipe calls for mustard greens which I like, but the co-op didn’t have any) & spicy ground pork over rice noodles. Used ground pork from the pig we bought from Waisman’s<\/a> in November, and homemade chicken broth. We also had a big salad with reduced cidar & shallot dressing, using the reduced cidar that I’ve had in the fridge since like October. Really nice to have all that lettuce in the middle of the winter – thank you California. Rach wondered if we should wash it all, but in the end we ate all but a handful, that I put in my lunch next day.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, we kind of had leftovers again – the last of the greens gratin I’d made for new years brunch<\/a>, that’s a Laurie Colwin recipe that I’ve adapted<\/a>. This time I used kale and collards as well as the spinach. A big pot of rice – I wanted to make brown, but all I had was a mixed rice blend, with wild rice and white rice and red rice and a little brown – so we had that. And leftover U.S. Senate navy bean soup<\/a> (I used the Joy of Cooking recipe; a little different, but still thickened with potato) heated up to go over it all as sauce. Mark & Toni needed to be fed fast so they could go off and see Princess Bride on the big screen at Sundance, part of their classic movie series. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Princess Bride on the big screen, only on the little screen, on VHS and DVD and cable. And it is a great movie, but I just didn’t want to spend $10 to see it, again<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thursday I made this Food52 celeriac and potato gratin<\/a> (with less cheese and half & half, and less of it, instead of heavy cream). With sausages, bratwurst, on the side, so basically bangers & mash. And coleslaw<\/a> that I’d made the night before, left the cabbage wilting while I was watching TV, and sorta forgot that I had to toss it with the dressing, and really didn’t want to at 11:00PM, but it was OK, went faster than I thought it would.\u00a0 It came out maybe a touch too sweet but that’s OK, too. Looks like I made the gratin last winter<\/a>, in early February instead of mid-January. Not terribly photogenic, but super tasty.<\/p>\n

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Potato celeriac gratin<\/p><\/div>\n

By Friday there was nothing much left for dinners except dribs and drabs of leftovers, leftover leftover lasagna<\/a>, one brat<\/a>, a small square of gratin. I wasn’t very hungry when I got home from work, anyhow – what I would’ve really liked is a sophisticated cocktail, and salty bar snacks, like olives and peanuts. There’s kind of a dearth of places to get something like that in college-town Madison, and with a non-drinking sweetheart, no one to go with. So I had some clementines, and a handful of nuts – Toni grabbed a few, too – and we went to see Her<\/a> at Sundance. After, Toni & Mark went to the wood-fired pizza place across the way from the theater, but I didn’t even feel like sitting with them for a glass of wine. I came home and had a microwave s’more and hot tea with half & half and brown sugar. And went back and got them, when they texted they were finished eating.\u00a0 I was feeling like my tastes and Mark’s were completely outta whack for the night, at least on preferred selections for dinner and a movie (I wanted to see Inside Llewyn Davis<\/a>). But actually, in the end it all worked out oddly perfectly.<\/p>\n

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Mandarin orange segments<\/p><\/div>\n

Saturday morning it was too cold to walk, so Rach and I did some stretches, and then had poached eggs on toast with bacon and kale, a healthy breakfast to send her off for a day in airports and planes.<\/p>\n

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Saturday breakfast<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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