Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Lazy lately

Well, despite my best intentions, I am just a bit behind on this blog, but today is a good day to start posting again, even though today is not a day I will actually cook anything.
Tuesday and Thursday nights are class nights, which means that dinner is usually some sort of snack while driving from work to class. I am currently working out plans for using my Mr. Bento (he's a bit dusty!!) for lunches again, and working up a sufficient backlog of small frozen packaged leftovers to serve as quick lunches.
I haven't actually cooked much lately, unless toast counts as cooking, but I currently have a ham thawing in my fridge, some roma tomatoes begging to become tasty pasta sauce, and some lovely ripe fresh fruit that I plan to make into fruit salad.
In the summer, my focus is on preparing lunches, so that I don't waste $$$ every month eating out, as well as the gas to actually get to anywhere that sells food. Lately I have been eating a lot of peanut butter and jelly, as well as quick cereals for breakfast, and need to get back on track with a larger variety of food so that I don't get bored. My own cooking is delicious, but it has been a few weeks now since my last quiche, and I really need to learn how to plan out menus for at least two weeks ahead.
So, today I am going out for lunch. Tomorrow, I plan to have steamed vegetables and baked ham, as I can do both of those after class tonight - the ham is precooked, just that it was frozen solid as a whole ham, and so I am thawing it out in order to glaze it, then apportion it into single servings for various purposes, and the vegetables just need to be steamed. I really want to acquire a microwave mini-steamer, so I can flash-steam just a few vegetables for lunch.

Well, one of my new co-workers just completely jammed the photocopier. I'll post again tomorrow.