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Menu Monday

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Here’s the new cookbook I ordered a while ago. I did use Amazon which I guess for some things like this, I will. This book was from a third-party seller though but still. I just heard about Feb. 28 as a nation wide no buy anything day so I hope you’ll join in.

It has some good recipes and the recipes are the way and what I cook. She also has a new cookbook coming out in June. I made the fried chicken pieces last night and it was a good recipe. She started as a youtube channel and I guess got pretty famous quickly. I plan on making some new recipes this week.

So, last night we had the fried chicken from this book and we had a packaged salad on the side. B had a quiche from Trader Joes.

Tonight, I think I’ll do tofu burgers because I have several packages of tofu. I don’t have any fries or potatoes so when I go to Costco I’ll pick up some of those baby potatoes.

Tuesday- I think something with beans. A bean bowl with rice, avocados, sour cream etc.

Wednesday- soup of some sort, ?

Thursday- a recipe in the new book for roast chicken with garlic. Probably salad on the side.

Friday- Pizza. I haven’t made homemade in quite a while so I think I’ll make a batch of dough. The recipe I use makes 4 dough balls.

Saturday-TBD

Our daffodils are coming up and it’s starting to look like spring. I picked a nice bouquet yesterday. My daughter has started all the tomato seeds and some other things. She got the onions in the raised beds too.

Five on Friday

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I think I will just abandon Friday for now as nothing we’re doing is very frugal. But five on Friday does highlight that.

  • So we went and did the Costco and Trader Joes trip on Tuesday. We went early and TJ’s was still fairly busy. But we were in and out at a mere $167. Some snacks, tofu, frozen veggies, salad stuff, tea, wine, and who know what else. Costco was busy but again we made it thru pretty easily although by the time we left it was getting packed. I had one woman run in front of me almost knock me over( not really, just imagining) to get to the Clorox wipes. Geez, lady.  My son wanted some Knobb Creek whiskey? so that was expensive. But it was a giant bottle. Anyway, we got out of there under $200 with $100 being the whiskey, his Captain Morgan Rum, and B’s Sierra Pale ale. All of which I do not imbibe.
  • Our windows finally arrived so we went and got those from Home Depot.
  • We were back at Home Depot to get wood for the windows and insulation. There is some dry rot that needs to be fixed. More $$$.
  • The weather is heating up to 100 degrees + this week. Not my favorite thing.
  • I made three new recipes this week. Organic Turkey meatballs. They came out pretty darn good. Then I made on the BBQ a seasoned Tri-Tip from Costco I had bought back in March. I watched a YOu Tube to see how it was done and I actually followed the directions and it came out great. Then I had bought some fresh Ahi Tuna at Costco. It was pricey but again I watched YouTube and got the timing down as it’s a quick sear. It came out really good and there was enough for all 3 of us meat-eaters to have lunch the next day. So $17. for 2 meals for 3 people. It’s not beans and rice but we eat that a lot of the time anyway.
  • My daughter bought a ceiling fan for her room and the wiring is too sold to reuse so B will need to go get the right wiring for that too. This old house was really not built very well and then when we had the wiring redone when we moved in the guy who did it, did the worst job possible. He totally screwed what circuits do what and it’s really a mess but to try and prefix that would just be too expensive. So we’ll do what we can.

California along with many other states is seeing an increase in COVID -19 cases. Honestly, this whole thing with people NOT wearing masks is getting out of hand. If it saves lives and keeps the virus from spreading why would you think it’s political. It’s science, folks. Plain and simple facts of how a virus spreads.

Now we’ve got idiot in chief, planning this rally tomorrow with his idiot, science deniers, all together. Good grief, Charlie Brown.