Food and Drink
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COVID-19: A Food Diary – In the Thick of It
I'm currently on day 22 of the Whole 30 and it has truly been an interesting and somewhat all-encompassing experience so far. I know I mentioned this in my last update, but I think about food and meal planning a LOT more than I normally do and spend a good amount of time searching for
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COVID-19: A Food Diary – Shifting Gears
Well, it's been a minute since I last posted. I figured you had your fill of my cooking adventures, but for the past week, I've been doing a round of the Whole 30, which has both challenged me in the food/cooking department and made me focus much more intently on food and meal planning. What
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COVID-19: A Food Diary – Day ???
Honestly, I've stopped counting. The summer is winding down, which is astonishing. This has somehow been the longest shortest year ever. Since August 1st, I've been up in Maine, spending time both at a cabin on a lake in Casco, Maine, and at my family's house in Portland (after negative pre- and post-flight covid tests).
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COVID-19: A Food Diary Days 94-108 – Nothing to See Here
Yes, I've been cooking. A lot. Still. Have I been cooking anything particularly exciting? Interesting? Photo-worthy? Not really. Some stir fries, a really tasty smashburger (served with to-go fries and a piña colada from The Happiest Hour), chicken saltimbocca with roasted baby artichokes, lots of salads with my produce deliveries (some with Trader Joe's sriracha
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COVID-19 A Food Diary Days 81-93 – Getting into a Groove?
Not really. Still generally getting too much food at once and jamming it into my overstuffed fridge and freezer, but I'm plugging along, and find that I do like the challenge of looking at everything, figuring out what needs to be cooked first, and planning from there. The Imperfect Produce box worked well, because it's
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COVID-19: A Food Diary Days 76-80 – Comfort Food
It seems ridiculous to post about food at the moment given everything going on in our country right now, so before I get into it, I'm just going to acknowledge the collective pain we are going through, and recommend some resources that have helped me to learn more about the institutional racism that is rampant
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COVID-19: A Food Diary Day 73-75 – Plugging Away
Just plugging away at using the food I have. My last Dinnerly box dish was beef shawarma, so I've pretty much been eating that and leftovers from the earlier Dinnerly meals, and adding on slightly with what is in my freezer/fridge/pantry. I have a produce box from Imperfect Foods arriving on Wednesday, and the goal
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COVID-19: A Food Diary Day 70-72 – What’s My Problem?!
This is a rhetorical question – please do not leave your guesses in the comments. In the before times, I really didn't have much difficulty regulating my food shopping/consuming in the same way I am now. I'm thinking that it's because it was always easy to just pick up a thing or two, as compared
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COVID-19: A Food Diary Day 66-69 – Cooking for One
Here's the thing about cooking for one — there's a fine line between having/wanting leftovers and making sure you don't make so much of something that you get sick of eating it. I was a little off-base in my calculations this week. The Indian butter shrimp, delicious as it was, ended up being lunch for
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COVID-19: A Food Diary Day 64 & 65 – Iron Chef Freezer/Pantry Edition
As I mentioned in my last post, I need to start making a dent in my freezer/pantry before doing too much restocking, so I made a concerted effort to start digging in. I think I mentioned a while back that in order to make it through all the milk before it spoiled, I made Greek