There’s a bit of a chill in the air, which means one thing around this house: soup-making time! The baby is tooling around on the floor drooling on things, I’m googling Skylanders Swap Force (this is the Pokémon/Ninjago of Jack’s generation, apparently, and thus is a little boy’s Christmas list born), the boys are watching How to Drain Your Dragon for the billionth time. The windows are thrown open, the sun is shining, College Game Day is on tv, and I’m making the week’s meals and grocery list and trying not to roll my eyes at all of these ridiculous human interest stories that the networks try to fill time with before the first big game. A typical early October day. Is this the best month of the year, or what?
We are about to buy a half cord of wood. We have a firewood rack that we hadn’t set up yet – we’d hoped to get a backyard fence in place first, but as that particular renovation may now be many years off (haaaaaaaaate student loans, haaaaaaaaaaaaaate them, also daycare, just set my money on fire), the husband is going to go ahead and build the rack out back so we can make our wood purchase, and the eventual fence builders will just have to work around it. Last year we would just buy wood a few sticks at a time from the front of the grocery store, which is an incredibly expensive way to do it. Dumb. Can’t wait to have a whole big old wood pile out there. I will never go near it myself – snakes hide in there you know – but it will be very awesome to have lots of wood at our fingertips, and I can send the husband out there to brave the vipers and collect pieces for us to burn, while I watch from my safe perch up on the back porch.
This is a very fall meal schedule, but what can I say? October beckons. I cleaned out my master closet, unearthed my fuzzy moose slippers. Pulled out the boys’ sweaters, pawed through the new season of clothes for Craig, looking for things that will fit him. Thinking about Halloween costumes for the boys, who want to be dragons, of course. We are coming upon our eight year anniversary, which we will celebrate in Charleston at the wedding of friends (not the exact day, but close). October, even with its shorter days, always makes me feel extra alive. Happy week, friends.
- Sunday: Roast chicken with mashed potatoes, roasted carrots and parsnips.
- Monday: Perfect potato soup (sans bacon, we are generally trying to avoid hoofed mammals in our diet these days), apples, crusty bread
- Tuesday: Chicken and fall vegetable pot pie, a perennial fall favorite
- Wednesday: Squash and mozzarella quiche, asparagus
- Thursday: black bean burgers, baked fries, salad
- Friday: vegetarian chili, biscuits. This picture looks horrible, but the recipe sounds good.
- Saturday: leftovers, pizza, takeout, something
I’m totally amazed that you have a different meal for each day of the week. We have leftovers every other day and i plan it that way on purpose so i can get by on half the cooking. Seriously, I’m impressed!
I love making and planning and eating delicious food. I make it all on the weekend, so it’s just easy to heat up. Then we freeze the leftovers and then defrost and add to the rotation on another week – or have them for lunch. The quiche on my list here was made and frozen two weeks ago!
I had the same Sunday you did, with minor adjustments (and substitute “chill in the air” with “non0-scorching heat”). Down to the same movie playing in the background!