Cooking isn’t something I actively enjoy, but I do feel like a bit of a wizard when I can pivot from one planned dish (coleslaw) to another (sweet and sour cabbage!) 🍽️🍜

There are days when my leftovers don’t make for an appealing work lunch, and the canteen prices are just a little outrageous, so I just wing it with whatever I have in the fridge and hope for the best 🍽️🍜

This is what Mogging means to me

Among my other misadventures yesterday, I also managed to dump half of pasta into the sink, leaving me with way too much sauce for the pasta that survived. Fortunately, it tastes pretty good spread on a baguette, so no harm done in the end 🍽️🍜

I woke up this mornin, went to go let the dog out, saw a skunk on the deck, and you can probably guess what happened next. I didn’t want to bother going to the store after all that, so made my reliable weeknight pantry pasta 🍽️🍜

Mashed apples and turnips from the farm market, red cabbage, and black lentils from Rancho Gordo. I need to tweak the lentils and turnips, but the leftovers will be good 🍽️🍜

I bought a big bag of celery with the intention of doing some meal prep, but I haven’t been in the mood to do that much work. Instead throwing that in with some barley I’ve been meaning to finish off, and taking a chance on a baguette from the cheese store. Not bad at all 🍽️🍜

Surviving freezing temps and cleaning out the pantry with stir fry with different sauce. Today is beef and peppers in peanut sauce 🍽️🍜

A quick lunch while doing a bit of meal prep before the snow that’s supposed to come 🍽️🍜

Today's Ojibwe story is a love story. It's a love story like Twilight is a love story and by that I mean filled with power imbalance, deceit, and generally creepy behaviour. www.thousandworlds.ca/blue-garter/

Trying a new yogurt, one that comes in a glass jar. That’s how you know it’s fancy! 🍽️🍜

Freezer bits soup for dinner! 🍜🍽️

I keep telling myself that I can do these Satsuma Street ornaments in the lead up to Christmas year after year, but I never do. This year, I’m just going to get them done now! #crossstitch #stitchsky

Hurriedly trying to use up some black eyed peas before freezing—quick salad with sardines and herbs, some tomatoes with balsamic vinegar, and a grocery store baguette 🍽️🍜

Playing the fun game of ‘Do I feel light-headed because I forgot to eat yesterday, or am I getting sick?’ this morning, which is always fun. Either way, gotta have something to build up my strength 🍽️🍜

Leftover greens and black eyed peas from yesterday! My Christmas gift to my friends was a bag of Rancho Gordo peas, so we all shared pictures of our New Year’s dinners with each other last night 🍽️🍜

Day 1 of trying to convince myself that potatoes can taste better than I think they do, featuring some red potatoes and som Cavenders seasoning 🍽️🍜

White bean posole and baguette slices that might have been just a little overtoasted on one side 🍽️🍜

A bedtime snack, some milk tea and a little sweet potato casserole 🍽️🍜

Trying out the bean pudding recipe from the Rancho Gordo website. It’s very fluffy, but even halving it, that’s a lot of bean all at once! Still, it’s worth playing with the recipe and seeing what can be done with it 🍽️🍜

A mishmash of things in the freezer—some pasta, sauce packets from something I probably ate months ago, some frozen veggies with an egg and some peanuts for protein. A quick lunch for a workday 🍽️🍜

Furlough Day! Not feeling thrilled with this day off, but the posole cooked up nice for light brunch. Might add some chicken later, but this was nice and light for an early lunch 🍽️🍜

When I was little, canned chili was way too spicy for me, and my poor parents had to put so much ketchup in it to convince me to eat it without bawling. As an adult, my tastes are a bit more refined, and I’ll even make my own chili sauce for my chili 🍽️🍜

Got some not great news, but hopefully things will resolve themselves soon. Some beans and naan might not fix everything, but having something sturdy for dinner is nice 🍽️🍜

Today I went with some of my friends to help clean up a local park. Tonight’s dinner is a little heavier than I usually prefer, but cabbage is a good reward for a good day’s work 🍽️🍜

My friend gave me some little spinach puff pastries she made, and so dinner was easy! After doing meal prep yesterday, it was nice to have something I didn’t cook 🍽️🍜

Today is big trash pickup and also happens to be a little stormy. All of the noise from the trucks, trailers, and thunder has my dog unsettled and barking. However, I’ve recently realized that he likes watching me in the kitchen, and so instead of having a relaxing morning with a book, I cooked 🍽️🍜

Another quick dinner, mostly from the pantry. This weekend, my friends and I are going on a big grocery run for my birthday, so I’m trying to make room in the pantry/freezer 🍽️🍜

Going through the freezer means finding a couple of field roasts stashed away. This roast is very definitely not ham, texture-wise, but there is something very almost-ham in the taste, and honestly, it was just a bit confusing 🍽️🍜

Quick weeknight dinner—TJ’s kebabs, curried okra, and rice and lentils. I don’t know why I don’t do okra like this more often, it’s a good, quick dinner 🍽️🍜

Sardine butter is a new concept to me. I think more herbs would make this bit lighter, but this is good to have on rotation while it’s still warm 🍽️🍜

Suffered from a big case of the I-don‘t-wannas this morning, but got on track eventually. I had half a bag of flageolet beans, and decided to try making something with leeks, which are hard to find where I’m at, but maybe I’ll make an effort to find them more often 🍽️🍜

Sometime, I forget how much I like red beans and rice. I’ve been eating off of this pot for a week and have been happy with every bowl 🍽️🍜

Had to fill in on a presentation today, but I feel like I did rather poorly. At least I had dinner to come home to. Corn soup that turned out amazingly well and bagged salad that was a bit less so 🍽️🍜

One of my friends has the cilantro-soap gene, so I rarely use it out of habit. When I do use it, though, I’m always pleasantly reminded of how bright and fresh it is! 🍽️🍜

Found a pound of mayocoba beans that needed to be used. Bean spread on crackers for the next few nights, then bean salad after. What I’m going to do with the last third, I have no idea. I’ll figure something out 🍽️🍜

Last night I read about lescó, and I thought about the peppers in the fridge getting a bit wrinkly. This isn’t that, not exactly. I ran with what I had, what I could remember from the recipes I looked at. I found some boudin in the freezer that’s been hanging out, and it all worked pretty okay 🍽️🍜

I can’t tell if my allergies are acting up with the cold front that moved in, or if I’ve stressed myself into a cold. Either way, some vegetables and a chicken carcass stashed in the freezer makes for an easy dinner 🍽️🍜

A few months ago, I bought attachments for my stand mixer to make pasta, and then promptly put them away and didn’t think about them. Until today, that is. Really, I’ll probably still used dried pasta for spaghetti, but I’m happy to have the roller for making crackers and ravioli 🍽️🍜

Found some Rancho Gordo beans on sale and discovered one of the bulk stores carries fresh herbs, so herb salad for dinner tonight. And some toasted baguette slices. Because really, that’s my favorite part 🍽️🍜

Another easy lunch from picnic leftovers. It’s still too hot, but hatch season is right around the corner, so I at least have that to look forward to 🍽️🍜

The lunch I made for my friend’s birthday was appreciated, and I have leftovers for a couple days! It’s always nice when dinner is just putting some rice in the cooker and frying an egg. I’m too tired after playing in the river for more than that! 🍽️🍜

A quick salad since I spent most of my cooking energy on making pesto and prepping a bag of sweet corn. Still got to portion out and bag the corn when it cools down a little more, but the hardest part is done 🍽️🍜

Tired, but trying to get some food prep done before a kinda busy weekend. I’ve had canned pigeon peas before, but I haven’t been able to get them dried until a month ago. Tomorrow, the goal is pesto… by hand. Because I love my friend and it’s her birthday 🍽️🍜

Costco had some fancy tuna for a good price, and I’ve been trying to experiment more with tinned fish. I wasn’t too impressed with the first few bites, but then I suddenly started tasting something much stronger and more well rounded than the usual cheap tuna, and I think I understand now 🍽️🍜

I can’t say that I was anticipating the pasta to start falling to bits while cooking, but it’s not like it’s inedible or anything, and I did get it on sale. Not sure I’ll get this sausage again, but not every meal has to be perfect. It’s filling, and sometimes that’s all I need 🍽️🍜

It’s been a minute since I made spring rolls, so the first couple I made are maybe less than perfect. But it doesn’t take too many to get back in the rhythm, and this is a good dinner on a hot evening 🍽️🍜

This kind of work lunch is nice because it’s easy to pack the night before. Still, this was almost too much! But what I couldn’t finish at lunch made for a good snack before finishing up for the day. 🍽️🍜

I may or may not have gorged on watermelon today, and suddenly just before bed, my tummy reminded me that watermelon alone can’t sustain me. It’s easy enough to fix with a baguette and some deli turkey. Still trying to form an opinion on these almond-stuffed olives 🍽️🍜

Summer is really kicking in, which means lots of fresh stuff at the farmer’s market, but also that I cannot bring myself to do a lot of cooking. This is really just me finding an excuse to try the pork and fig terrine I saw at the gourmet grocery store. Glad I tried it, but probably not a repeat 🍽️🍜