Last Week
On Tuesday Sonny D and I went to the dentist. This was his second time and he did great! He watched videos on my iPhone until it was his turn and then he got right in the chair and opened his mouth as asked. He even called out the hygienist for not pulling down her box of rewards (it sits way on top of a high cabinet). I can't believe he even remembered that it was up there. And he loves his light-up toothbrush and lip balm they gave him.
On Thursday evening Sonny D and I attend his preschool pizza social, the entertainment was a guy who played kid music and turned on bubble machines. The kids all loved it.... except for Sonny D. He sat on my lap and watched the whole time. Husband Jeff was away for a trip and was envious of our Little Caesar's pizza since we had been talking about it recently.
On Friday for Me & D night we headed to the mall to meet up with friends at the play area. At first Sonny D was a bit hesitant, but later he loosened up and ran around with Alex. It'll be fun to get the boys together more often. We mentioned possibly going to the open swim at the nearby elementary school, that would be fun.
My friend Heather and her mom stopped by on Sunday and we went to the farmers' market together. I had a lot of produce from the previous Sunday that I hadn't used up (and even a few things from two weeks prior!) so I didn't buy a whole lot. I was surprised to still see rhubarb around at the market (and it was good looking too!), to me that's a late-spring thing and it's now fall. I felt bad, I had talked up the juice/smoothie/spring roll cart to Heather but it ended up that it wasn't there that day. Darn!
I took time on Sunday afternoon to make and can salsa verde using the tomatillos I bought two weeks ago at the farmers' market. I had a tiny bit of salsa that didn't fit in a jar so we had some for dinner last night, it was great! I used jalapenos from our garden instead of the Anaheim chiles called for in the recipe and it was nice and spicy.
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| Salsa verde in the making. |
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| Grilled okra is A-OK with me! |
This Week
- Monday - Our neighbors ordered Asian food for delivery yesterday and Husband Jeff thought that was a great idea, so we're having Chinese takeout. Then after dinner I'm heading out to a board meeting for our Korean adoption group (I'm the Supplies & Events Coordinator). We're planning Chuseok, a fall harvest festival. For us that means lots of Korean food and games.
- Tuesday - I want to make curry cauliflower soup and add in some chickpeas, along with sesame green beans. Then I've got Zumba after dinner.
- Wednesday -I think I'm finally going to make stuffed buns - filled with white bean mash, bacon, spinach, and cheese.
- Thursday - We've got a partial package of hot dogs in the freezer that I have the urge to use up, so we'll have those with miso-butter roasted delicata squash. I'm sure that won't satisfy Sonny D, so I'll pull out the random other things we've got like hummus, crackers, pretzels, veggies, etc.
- Friday - The end of the week here is a little uncertain. I wrote down some food ideas but they're all cold-weather items like soup, but the weather is supposed to be pretty nice. So I feel almost guilty for making what I want rather than seasonally-appropriate dishes. So today I picked out chicken rice soup, which Sonny D will hopefully be pleased about since he loves rice. It's a thick soup, pretty much jook/congee, a savory rice porridge.
- Saturday - I've got my Core Fusion class in the morning and then we're meeting friends for lunch but still haven't nailed down a location. In the late afternoon I was thinking we'd attend the Duck Soup Cinema program downtown. They show silent movies with an organ accompanying them. There is also some other entertainment that goes along with it, like one year they had a juggler and a couple a capella groups. I was figuring we'd have dinner at a nearby restaurant afterwards.
- Sunday - Like always, I'll make my way to the Northside farmers' market in the morning. I'd love to head up to Lapacek's apple orchard in the afternoon to see what apples they've got available. I'm planning that we'll go to the apple orchard maybe three times this fall, this Sunday, then another trip in mid-October to Oakwood Fruit Farm for pumpkins and super-delicious caramel apples, and then back to Lapacek's at the end of the season. Last year we went through a lot of apples so that's why I think we should make three trips this year. For dinner I was thinking super-classic eye of round steaks with mashed potatoes.