I really should just open a restaurant...

[dolorosa_12]

... although then I would have to learn to get things done a bit faster!

Today I have cooked:

Stewed apples with cinnamon (Matthias eats them with porridge for breakfast; this batch is enough for an entire week)

Brown rice (I fry it with vegetables and egg and eat it for breakfast; this batch is probably enough for five days)

Risotto with zucchini and bacon (tomorrow's dinner, and my lunch for two days)

Roast vegetables (half of which will go with the risotto, and half of which will go with Tuesday's dinner)

Pasta with sauce made from fresh cherry tomatoes and garlic from our garden (today's lunch)

Cucumber and dill salad (part of Matthias's lunch for the rest of the week)

After I've finished this post, I'm going to get started on dinner, which will be roast pumpkin with bacon and leeks, mushrooms grilled in garlic butter, and this recipe for kale with caramelised onion stuffing.

It's a good thing I like cooking is all I can say!

I also managed to finish a book (Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng — highly recommended if you like gothic literature, British folklore, and creepy fairy otherworlds), go out for drinks and dinner with a bunch of friends for Matthias's birthday, and go for a freezing walk in the twilight (there were crows; it was awesome). I was going to start work on a third Yuletide treat, but time ran away with me. I've got the whole thing outlined, though.

I hope everyone else had a weekend as enjoyable as mine, although perhaps not one as filled with cooking...

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Oh, that all sound delicious! Do you do your brown rice in a rice cooker? Or cleverly on the stove (which I can't do...)?

[dolorosa_12]

I cook brown rice on the stove using the immersion method (the same way I cook white rice -- it just takes longer). I've never been able to figure out how to use a rice cooker, and my kitchen is so small that I can't have a lot of equipment all over the counter.