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hi!

THERE they are!!

I had a hot dog. Nom.

YUM!

I made a pork stew, with cornbread or biscuits. To share the glory, Thing1 brought home the cornbread from camping.

ooo

Related, made a roast pork and gravy too.

But I'm freezing that for next week.

I brined the pork for a day and a half in an apple juice brine with fresh herbs, then seared it off and added it to onion/potato/carrot/celery for 6 hours or so.

We did the regular Monday meal...spaghetti & sauce.

Nothing wrong with that!

Yeah. It's okay. Not my favorite, but it's food. shrug

DH is not fond of pasta either.

It's one of the three meals that Terence knows how to make reliably.

I adore & miss spaghetti

I used to make it at least monthly

(one whole jar + one whole box = daaayyyysssss of sketti)

Non-wheat pasta isn't quite the same, is it.

Tell you what, I've tried whole wheat pasta, chickpea, so on... nope. Sorry. NOT the same.

HA!

correct

Jinx-ish, Shady!

Right?

I can have ~a cup of pasta, but the sauce has more sugar than you think, too

Very true.

How do you feel about pesto, Cat?

We do some chicken and spinach ravioli with olive oil, no sauce.

pesto = meh

I want MY sketti

A specific brand of jar sauce w/ground beef & particular spice doctoring

I encourage Thing2 to experiment a little with his doctoring but he's not there yet.

OTOH, he also doesn't want to find or follow actual recipes. So. His meals are always an adventure!

I like pesto and the Things are recently introduced and liking cacio e pepe.

Chicken browned in garlic oil, pesto, sundried tomato, and bowtie pasta. Another of Terences go-to recipes.

mmmm

Yeah, that's alright.

I recently roasted four garlic bulbs, popped them into a small jar, added salt and covered with olive oil. I have been using the paste since. NUM.

mmmm

good lord, Ramona, no. You do not need to be on my mousepad, please

Oooh, that sounds so good, Shady.

Ramona lurrrrrrrrvs you!

I HIGHLY recommend stashing some away. The oven does the work, you just prep, squeeze, and jar.

oh, she purrin'

Shady, take the skin off before jarring?

Ooo... so when you roast garlic, you lop off as little of the root end as you can and wrap it loosely in foil and put it in a 350 oven till it calls to you. You will hear it with your nose. When it smells AMAZING, take it out and let it cool. Then you just SQUEEZE it from the top out the bottom/root end like toothpaste into the jar/container.

Got it! I've always wanted to do whole roasted bulbs, but never got around to it.

It is STUPID easy, the oven does the work, and you will be happy you did it. Recommend.

@catnik Missy Valencia caught me making the bed this morning and expected cuddle time. She did not get but I invited her to join me tonight.