Yay, it is Thursday, wonderful Thursday, over the hump, and through the woods! And this weekend is a three-day weekend, all the more reason to celebrate! Yes, I've been bad this week, haven't kept up on my blogs, but the eating has been good. Not always the most creative, but survivable. Here's a quick summary...
Sunday, I made my pumpkin bread, at long last! I should have omitted the water the recipe called for, since the pumpkin I roasted still held a lot of water, much more than most canned varieties. But, the bread ended up quite moist, still held together, and it was quite delicious. I played a mean trick on Hubby - when after a day at the office, he came home, he said, wow, the house smells great! What is it that I'm cooking? To which, I replied, oh nothing, I just sprayed the house down with air freshener. Ha! He wasn't fooled, not for a second. But, seriously, the pumpkin bread was baking in the oven (2 loaves), and I had the left-over vegetable soup from the previous weekend cooking on the stove, with some sliced chicken breast in it, along with some pasta, for home-made chicken noodle soup.
Monday - breakfast was a slice of my yummy pumpkin bread, had a wonderful egg salad and OJ for lunch. Dinnertime rolled around with baked salmon on pasta with cream sauce. The cream sauce - ach, what a saga! I started it off with an olive-oil roux (equal parts olive oil, heated, with flour), and then tempered some cream before adding in the cream off the heat. My big mistake was to violate my own rule: I salted the sauce in the beginning. HUGE mistake! Sure enough, with some evaporation of the sauce as I was heating it, the sauce was much too salty, and I also salted the pasta water. Luckily, I left the salmon mostly unseasoned, so it helped to balance the pasta - but we had to couple one with the other in each bite. Bleaaach!
Tuesday - breakfast was a slice of my pumpkin bread, had a gyro for lunch, in between meetings; and after my evening yoga, got together with my good friend Jenelle for a quick bite at a bakery around the corner, for some peach smoothie and a basil/mozzarella/tomato sandwich.
Wednesday - I had cereal for breakfast, and I couldn't stay away from the gyro at lunchtime. Dinner I baked up a frozen organic pizza with a side of salad.
Tonight, Hubby starts his teaching engagement at a local university, so I am left to my devices (wha ha ha ha ha ha!). I gave it extensive thought this morning, that I would be able to have my beloved Ethiopian food, but I decided there would be future opportunities for when I'm REALLY craving it. So, I've got a steak defrosting in the refrigerator, and I plan to enjoy it with a baked potato.
Until tomorrow!
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