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To Do and Done
Nov. 22nd, 2022 09:02 pmI made red sauce. It's vegetarian because I forgot to get meat. It's not vegan because I used butter both to saute the onions as well as to cut the acidity of the sauce.
I put together the ricotta mixture for the lasagna. Tomorrow I'll boil the lasagna noodles and assemble it. I was going to put together the broccoli casserole as well but I got hung up doing some cleaning things and got tired.
Nesko is going to help me peel and cut potatoes then put them in water tomorrow night so I can cook and mask them Wednesday.
I also need to remember to boil eggs for deviled eggs.
I'm going ahead with making full pans of lasagna and broccoli casserole because some people who will be eating on Thursday really love both lasagna and broccoli casserole. I checked and the full pans fit in the oven.
We have had, For Reasons, a very large cardboard box with a wall mounted microwave vent hood and a very large cardboard box with a wall cabinet to go over the wall mounted microwave vent hood in the dining room for about five years now. At least. It's hard to have people come over for a visit when you have two enormous boxes just... sitting there. We're going to try to move them into the office for very temporary storage or, failing that, put them in the living room with tablecloths over them as tables. We also still have a LOT of stuff from the kitchen cabinets that are no longer usable stashed around the dining room (as well as a very large bin of stuffed animals we aren't permitted to put elsewhere, and a bit of bedding). I absolutely do not want to get into a frenzy of shoving things into any easily hideable space. No, it needs to be a well-organized frenzy.
I am not really a person who does well with a time line that allows me to leisurely approach an end goal and complete all the tasks needed before that end goal arrives. I try to be! I try to be organized and make plans and make lists and cross things off. And then I need that pressure of the time limit to motivate me. So part of me is all "do this! do that! do this! make other person do this! stop sitting! get up! do this other thing!" and part of me is all ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it'll get done.
The cleanest and most organized my house has ever been was when I had people coming over every week.
Anyway tomorrow we need to:
And then there's still Thursday morning
I put together the ricotta mixture for the lasagna. Tomorrow I'll boil the lasagna noodles and assemble it. I was going to put together the broccoli casserole as well but I got hung up doing some cleaning things and got tired.
Nesko is going to help me peel and cut potatoes then put them in water tomorrow night so I can cook and mask them Wednesday.
I also need to remember to boil eggs for deviled eggs.
I'm going ahead with making full pans of lasagna and broccoli casserole because some people who will be eating on Thursday really love both lasagna and broccoli casserole. I checked and the full pans fit in the oven.
We have had, For Reasons, a very large cardboard box with a wall mounted microwave vent hood and a very large cardboard box with a wall cabinet to go over the wall mounted microwave vent hood in the dining room for about five years now. At least. It's hard to have people come over for a visit when you have two enormous boxes just... sitting there. We're going to try to move them into the office for very temporary storage or, failing that, put them in the living room with tablecloths over them as tables. We also still have a LOT of stuff from the kitchen cabinets that are no longer usable stashed around the dining room (as well as a very large bin of stuffed animals we aren't permitted to put elsewhere, and a bit of bedding). I absolutely do not want to get into a frenzy of shoving things into any easily hideable space. No, it needs to be a well-organized frenzy.
I am not really a person who does well with a time line that allows me to leisurely approach an end goal and complete all the tasks needed before that end goal arrives. I try to be! I try to be organized and make plans and make lists and cross things off. And then I need that pressure of the time limit to motivate me. So part of me is all "do this! do that! do this! make other person do this! stop sitting! get up! do this other thing!" and part of me is all ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it'll get done.
The cleanest and most organized my house has ever been was when I had people coming over every week.
Anyway tomorrow we need to:
- pick up the pies we ordered
- see if we can borrow my mother in law's oval dutch oven which will easier to boil the long lasagna noodles in
- assemble the broccoli casserole
- assemble the stuffing (to be placed in the slow cooker to actually cook)
- peel and cut the two kinds of potatoes
- boil 12 eggs
- finish cleaning and clearing
And then there's still Thursday morning
