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[rivka]

I was checking the fridge in preparation for grocery shopping, and discovered a package of pork chops with a sell-by date of last Wednesday. Then I remembered buying them last weekend and intending to make pork chops with red potatoes. How embarrassing to be that out-of-touch with what's in my fridge - but this is exactly the kind of mistake I'm prone to making when I'm stressed and busy.

So here is our meal plan for the upcoming week, in black and white so I don't forget to cook anything:

• Sunday: Smoked Gouda-stuffed hamburgers. And sugar snap peas, which were also hanging around the fridge hoping in vain that I'd remember having them.


• Monday: Pork chops with red potatoes and roasted red peppers. From a new package of pork chops, not the one that expired last Wednesday.


• Tuesday: Steak, to celebrate the job interview Michael has at Johns Hopkins that day.


• Wednesday: Sesame apricot chicken with rice, from Let's Dish.


• Thursday: Mexican pork wraps from Let's Dish - slow-cooked pork wrapped in tortillas.


• Friday: Smoked salmon and asparagus pasta. They had gorgeous cracked-pepper-crusted smoked sockeye at Safeway. (Say that three times fast.)


• Saturday: Chicken breasts. Maybe in a sherry sauce - I haven't done that in a while. I should've written down the directions for it when we were eating it once a week, because my memories of how to put the sauce together are kind of hazy. I think it had chicken broth and sherry and lemon juice and pepper and capers, but was that it?

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

my goodness. if you figure out that sherry sauce recipe, i'd love to hear about it. sounds tasty.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

"...All you hungry sinners, we wish the same to you."

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

This icon is for you!

I have a busy and stressful week coming up with Jeff going out of town, and I've been counting to make sure that I have enough frozen dinners and frozen veggies for Henry and I.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I'm right in the middle of re-watching P&P right now, so this icon makes me laugh and laugh.

rivka - the food all sounds awesome. We've been in a pasta and soup rut lately.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Jeff's going out of town again? You poor thing. Argh.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Before we started dating, he was traveling about a week a month. He stayed home the entire time that I was pregnant with Henry, and after he was born. During his review this year, he got docked because he wasn't traveling anymore. He expects it to be about once every two months, but these first two happened to be closer.

He's going to Hilton Head Island, but since he doesn't golf, it's not a vacation. Mm-hmm.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I went through a period where I kept forgetting what was in the fridge, so I bought a little whiteboard with magnets on the back, put it on the fridge, and just wrote what I had on it. These days, the only perishable stuff in the fridge is milk and cheese.