I subscribe a vast number of cooking blogs. That little “ding” my phone makes every five minutes – yeah – it’s another “come read all about this awesome thing I just cooked or baked or served or whatever!”
I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by it all, possibly even resentful in an envious sort of way. Well Maveypants, why don’t you just unsubscribe to the blogs and set about using your FIVE BILLION cookbooks? You know, the ones that cause avalanches? Those ones? And maybe stay off P**terest? And how about moving all the culinary FB pages you “LIKE” that keep showing up in your news feed? Hmmmmm?
Thing is, even with all the blog feeds, and the ladies posting their weekly menus and all the cookbooks and P**terest and FB, blah, blah, blah…I’ve been feeling a little uninspired with respect to dinners for the last couple weeks. Might be the brutal work schedule I’ve been pulling. Might be that I just get a little blue this time of year. Might also just be excuses. (Personally I’m kind of going with the last one, but let’s just keep in here between our selves, ‘K?)
Take last week, for example. I actually only cooked twice – I know – TWICE. Both times were crockpot food and then we ate various forms of leftovers. In my own defense, I pulled some really long days last week (and I worked over the weekend); big girl had exams; little (ha) girl studying for her midterms. The food was tasty and designed to be used in leftovers, but it’s just that I couldn’t bring myself to even think creatively about my menus – utilitarian, that’s the word I’m looking for – my menu was utilitarian. How Bah Humbug!
This week needs to be better.
Monday – Butter Chicken with veggie sauté
Tuesday – Orecchiette with spicy chicken sausage and leeks
Wednesday – “left over chicken” & lemon soup & salad
Thursday – Jerk fish tacos
Friday – Dinner out
I was going to make the ubiquitous Chicken with Forty Cloves of Garlic this week (and bread from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day), but then decided that the likelihood of my peeling 40 cloves of garlic was pretty nil at the moment. Maybe the week between Christmas and New Year’s. If I get some time off. Even better – I’ll have the girls cook it.