My husband came home from the grocery store the other day with red snapper and a selection of vegetables. “I thought we would have stir-fry,” he said.
What I should have said was, “Thank you, honey, for planning dinner and going to the store. That was so awesome!”
What I actually said was, “Fish stir-fry? Gross. Have you ever actually heard of fish stir-fry?”
Not my finest moment as a wife. Did I mention that I was napping when he went to the store? With the kids? Yep. Not my finest wife moment at all.
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Ever since my kids saw the Lego Movie (we could discuss this for days, people), they think Taco Tuesday is all that and a bag of chips. And ever since I saw these ridiculously cute Oreo tacos on Pinterest, I agree. I mean, are you kidding me with these?
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I’ve previously mentioned my obsession with magazines. I’ve also previously mentioned my admiration of Martha Stewart. So it goes without saying that I have a backlog of Martha recipes that I pull out in a pinch. Except when I can’t find them. Anywhere.
This may have happened to me recently when I found myself at the grocery store completely uninspired and staring at the produce section. I had decided on swordfish for supper and could not for the life of me think of a side. Can we interrupt this blog post for a minute so that I can point out that there was no meal plan? None. I believe this was day three or four in a row that I found myself in the grocery with absolutely no plan for supper. Isn’t that why you started this darn blog in the first place? To be more organized and spend less time in the grocery store and less time thinking about dinner? Why, yes. Yes it is. This would be what we call a complete fail.
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Dear Diary,
It's been over two weeks since my last food review. People are probably going to think that I don't cook anymore. The truth? I'm cooking all the time but can't seem to get photos of my food that make any sense at all. Am I in a photography rut? Should I just throw my hands in the air and give up? Or maybe rename the blog to something like "susie makes supper without proof"?
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Sunday night was Back to School Night at the kids’ high school. This parents-only affair is held annually to give parents the lay of the land with respect to curriculum and overall expectations. I have never been.
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Wait, that’s not asparagus! I know. The asparagus at the store looked awful so I improvised. In truth, the green beans weren’t much better. We are still waiting on our garden up here in the mountains so we get what we get. I might need to hit the farmer’s market today to see if I can score any real produce since I forgot to sign up for our produce basket this week.
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I had THE BEST dinner last night. Sorry for the yelling but it was so good. And unfortunately for the rest of my family, I was the only one really eating. That’s not entirely true. The littlest people each ate a piece of fish (along with leftover pizza). It was like pulling teeth to get them to try the fish, but once we got over the initial hump, they both actually liked it.
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Ugh. The Costco run. After two weeks of bare bones food in the house, it was time to suck it up and make the big shopping trip. The good news? Fresh wild salmon. Yippee! And I just so happened to have cilantro and oranges on hand so I was able to revisit the citrus grilled salmon that we made a couple of weeks ago. Still delicious.
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We’ve had a few changes to the old menu already this week and it is only Tuesday. On Sunday night, we (my husband) opted out of halibut in favor of Kings’ playoff hockey at the local watering hole. I went with a pretty tasty turkey club and the Kings won. I’m sure the two are connected. We moved our lovely halibut to Monday night, thinking we would push everything on the menu back by a night, only to find that our oldest daughter, freshly back from college and entertaining a visiting friend, will be joining us for dinner tonight. I just can’t see serving lo-mein as planned. I think we might go with the fajitas.
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Um, wow. Let me start by saying that neither my mom nor I are salmon people. My mother grew up in Louisiana where red fish and trout were king (along with shellfish, of course), and where most often, fish was fried. I grew up influenced by Cajun cooking and by my mom’s culinary experiences. Salmon was just not a part of the picture.
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Ok, so I am gushing over this new cookbook, right? Collards and Carbonara. Yum. And I decide to make Flounder with Beets, Brussels Sprouts & Brown Butter. Only, I can’t find flounder. Or baby beets. And I don’t have a pressure cooker to cook the beets. And I have absolutely no clue what sea beans are.
Carry on. Yep, that’s what I did. Just like that overused, over-edited, over updated sign. I bought groceries and carried on. The only white fish at my market was sole. I picked the smallest beets that I could find. The recipe called for 12 baby beets for four people. I had non-baby beets and eight people. I went with eight beets. I bought some Brussels sprouts. Was it two pounds? I doubt it. But I knew how to roast garlic and I finally found Sherry vinegar. I was ready to go.
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I had high hopes for spicy fish taco bowls. High hopes. The recipe photographs were beautiful and colorful. The ingredients looked excellent. I’ve made some really good things from this particular blog. But not tonight. Major let down. I have no idea what I did wrong but this may have been the most bland dish that I’ve made in a long time. Possibly forever.
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Confession time. I can’t see and I did not cook this meal. In fact, I’m not sure that I will be cooking much for the next week. I had a little surgery on my right eyeball on Thursday. Let’s just say it was a tad more involved than I thought it would be. I’m actually squinting out of one eye with my glasses on to type this. And I look like someone punched me in the face. No joke.
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