Weekly Menu + 3 Bonus Posts
Menu for the coming week:
Thursday:
- Continuing our summer laziness tradition and picking up pupusas and lemonade at the farmer’s market
Friday:
- Veggie and feta pasta salad
Saturday:
- Layered vegetable and black bean enchiladas
- This is going to be my first attempt at making enchilada sauce from scratch.
Sunday:
- BBQ in appreciation of the dads
- Black bean burgers, corn on the cob, seasonal fruit, cherry crisp
Monday:
- Build-your-own sandwiches on homemade ciabatta
Tuesday:
- Shahi paneer, brown rice, nann
Wednesday:
- Jeff cooks. This past week Jeff did build-your-own burritos.
And now three random snippets from our life as a bonus:
A Scene From The Neighboorhood Park
The Setting: Our neighborhood park, about 6:00 pm. Jeff and I are watching Thomas as he climbs on the play structure. Nearby, several bulldozers (being used for the construction of new park restrooms) sit idle. A four year old boy gazes longingly at the bulldozers. His father stands nearby.
Boy: Look at those!
Me: Yes, bulldozers!
Boy: Like Bob the Builder
Me: Sure, like Bob the Builder. (I have never seen Bob the Builder but with a name like that I assume that Bob knows something about bulldozers.)
Boy: Yeah.
Me: I’ll bet they are fun to drive.
Boy: Yeah!
Me: Maybe someday when you grow up you could drive a bulldozer.
Boy’s Father: Or he could tell the guys driving the bulldozer what to do.
Me: Driving the bulldozer sounds like more fun.
Boy’s father says nothing and glares at me.
Clearly, some people have issues with their socioeconomic status.
Thomas is a Delightful Little Crazy Man
Thomas is doing a bang-up job of job of being a toddler by being adorable one moment and relentlessly testing our rules the next. He enjoys drawing and is quite fond of testing our rule of “only drawing on paper” by coloring on the table, the floor, and this morning Jeff’s chair. When he does so, I stop his drawing, reprimand him, and clean up the crayon with the Mr. Clean magic eraser. I now have to stop cleaning up the crayon in front of him because I realized that he is purposefully drawing off of the paper so that I will take out the eraser and we can pronounce the offended surface “all clean”. He likes cleaning so much that the reward of watching me clean is worth the consequence of having to stop drawing. What a delightful little weirdo.
Wealth Isn’t Having Money In the Bank, It’s Having Bread In the Oven
I bake nearly all of our bread except for pita and hamburger buns. The bread is good, however, I have become a bit bored with my standard recipe. I was lamenting my boredom whilst Jeff ordered a computer part from Amazon. He needed to spend a couple more dollars in order to get free super saver shipping so I told him to add the book Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, a book I had heard about on another blog, to his order. The book arrived yesterday. I stayed up until 12:30 am last night reading it cover to cover. I think that this book might change my life. Stay tuned for updates.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Lucy used to be the same way about cleaning up. I used to set her up with a bowl of soapy water and an old toothbrush and let her scrub out the teeny crevices of her high chair or the bathroom floor and she loved it.
It didn’t keep her from drawing on furniture, though
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
[...] we get to this week’s menu…remember the book, Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, that I mentioned last week might change my life? Well, I baked four loaves of bread this week and I honestly think that after [...]