Po...tay... toe?
Nov. 21st, 2022 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigidWent to Whole Foods to hunt down Yukon Gold potatoes and maybe "Yukon Gold" is a brand? They had "Gold Potatoes" which look the same and WHATEVER I just want to boil them and mash them (and later on I'll stick them in a stew I guess. Or split pea soup.). Anyway, we went to Whole Foods and it made me really remember how much I hate Whole Foods. This one was especially bad, poorly laid out, and with a cheese selection that was really lacking. I could find better at Mariano's and they aren't even a Wisconsin chain any more!
I was set to do some cleaning and prep etc but someone rolled their ankle earlier today and now it's swollen and bruised blue, probably a sprain, and they needed some babying. This mostly consisted of me making them soup and toast and bringing them ice water, a cookie, and pain killers then listening to them complain. It's the little things, you know?
This has put me behind on cleaning and prep and also I kind of don't care. I did a lot over the weekend and I'm sitting here now unable to remember what day of the week it is (Monday. I think? Yes, Monday.) so perhaps I just need to... not do anything this evening.
Tomorrow I'm going to make the broccoli casserole and the lasagna - two things that sound daunting to many people but, at least in the case of the lasagna, isn't that bad at all really. I'm debating whether I should bake them ahead and then reheat them or not and the time difference isn't that great so I'm going to assemble them Tuesday then bake them on Thursday. Of course I won't add the cracker crumbs to the broccoli casserole until right before it goes into the oven. I'm probably going to toast up some panko with some butter and seasoning as well - this really elevates any casserole but especially home made macaroni and cheese. Toss some butter in a pan, melt it, throw in some panko and your favorite seasoning, and stir it around until it's browned but not burnt or anything. You have to keep it moving!
I might make the gravy tomorrow also, I'll see how I'm feeling. Tuesdays are usually especially busy at work as a very specific weekly thing happens that day, and we're already behind on some other stuff. So either it'll be off the wall or it won't be and I don't know which it will be which means I can't easily brace myself.
Speaking of gravy, I neglected to make the red sauce for the lasagna which I really should have done tonight. I'll put it on the stove top ASAP tomorrow when I get home from work and start on the broccoli casserole and mix up the ricotta filling for the lasagna, at least. Assembly is easy.
When I was a kid we (by which I mean my mom and I and none of the other three people, all male, in the household) would finish cleaning the kitchen after dinner, do ALL the prep and assembly the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and then spend most of Thanksgiving putting things into and pulling things out of the oven. Having these extra days before hand is helpful and I don't know why my mom didn't take advantage of them, although obviously she had reasons not to (the reasons might have been she was working 62-80 hours a week and just wanted to sleep).
Anyway, I'm scattered because I'm sleepy and also these blog entries are kind of acting like notes for next year. Reminder to self that red sauce can be made well in advance and then frozen. I forget about freezing things like that sometimes because our fridge/freezer is very small and generally very full with stuff that would fill a "normal" sized fridge only 2/3s of the way up.
I was set to do some cleaning and prep etc but someone rolled their ankle earlier today and now it's swollen and bruised blue, probably a sprain, and they needed some babying. This mostly consisted of me making them soup and toast and bringing them ice water, a cookie, and pain killers then listening to them complain. It's the little things, you know?
This has put me behind on cleaning and prep and also I kind of don't care. I did a lot over the weekend and I'm sitting here now unable to remember what day of the week it is (Monday. I think? Yes, Monday.) so perhaps I just need to... not do anything this evening.
Tomorrow I'm going to make the broccoli casserole and the lasagna - two things that sound daunting to many people but, at least in the case of the lasagna, isn't that bad at all really. I'm debating whether I should bake them ahead and then reheat them or not and the time difference isn't that great so I'm going to assemble them Tuesday then bake them on Thursday. Of course I won't add the cracker crumbs to the broccoli casserole until right before it goes into the oven. I'm probably going to toast up some panko with some butter and seasoning as well - this really elevates any casserole but especially home made macaroni and cheese. Toss some butter in a pan, melt it, throw in some panko and your favorite seasoning, and stir it around until it's browned but not burnt or anything. You have to keep it moving!
I might make the gravy tomorrow also, I'll see how I'm feeling. Tuesdays are usually especially busy at work as a very specific weekly thing happens that day, and we're already behind on some other stuff. So either it'll be off the wall or it won't be and I don't know which it will be which means I can't easily brace myself.
Speaking of gravy, I neglected to make the red sauce for the lasagna which I really should have done tonight. I'll put it on the stove top ASAP tomorrow when I get home from work and start on the broccoli casserole and mix up the ricotta filling for the lasagna, at least. Assembly is easy.
When I was a kid we (by which I mean my mom and I and none of the other three people, all male, in the household) would finish cleaning the kitchen after dinner, do ALL the prep and assembly the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and then spend most of Thanksgiving putting things into and pulling things out of the oven. Having these extra days before hand is helpful and I don't know why my mom didn't take advantage of them, although obviously she had reasons not to (the reasons might have been she was working 62-80 hours a week and just wanted to sleep).
Anyway, I'm scattered because I'm sleepy and also these blog entries are kind of acting like notes for next year. Reminder to self that red sauce can be made well in advance and then frozen. I forget about freezing things like that sometimes because our fridge/freezer is very small and generally very full with stuff that would fill a "normal" sized fridge only 2/3s of the way up.
