{"id":1437,"date":"2020-04-19T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T21:57:57","slug":"a-month-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/a-month-of-food","title":{"rendered":"A month of food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_8695.jpg\" alt=\"A dutch baby (kind of like a pancake) on a nice plate with a knife and fork\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_8695.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_8695-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So except for a single slice of pizza, I haven&#8217;t eaten anything I didn&#8217;t make at home for a month. I&#8217;m a decent cook and have a decent pantry. But more to the point, I have a huge tolerance for eating the same thing over and over again. This means batch cooking, even for one, mostly works. But even my usual go-tos got kind of boring, so I&#8217;ve been branching out into occasional internet recipes. Here&#8217;s some of what I made, though you&#8217;ll notice this is as much about getting food as eating it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cookieandkate.com\/healthy-banana-bread-recipe\/\">Healthy Banana Bread<\/a> &#8211; for whatever reason many of the recipes I wind up with are on these super-healthy food blogs where everything else is some kind of kale paste or date smoothie. This bread was good, and improved with some extra coconut. We&#8217;ve been able to get flour pretty easily at the local farm stand and I had some gross bananas that needed to give up their space in the freezer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/toriavey.com\/toris-kitchen\/vegetarian-matzo-ball-soup\/\">Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup<\/a> &#8211; the matzoh ball part of this was too foofy (made the recipe off the box) but I wound up with extra eggs (thanks to a lady from facebook who was delivering them) so figured I&#8217;d try to make the soup as well. I have saffron, this wound up good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/golden-milk-chia-seed-pudding\/\">Golden Milk Chia Seed Pudding<\/a> &#8211; sometimes you just want to use some foods up. I have had chia seeds sitting around since forever and I don&#8217;t even remember why I got them. This was&#8230; okay. I like turmeric as a flavor but it just didn&#8217;t turn into anything I&#8217;d eat again. Thumbs up texture though.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/overnight-oats-3416659\">Overnight Oats<\/a> &#8211; there are a million recipes for this and I was fine going off on my own, just wanted to make sure I had the right ratio. I have a large box of of internet-purchased self-stable soy milk that this was good for.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/6648-dutch-baby\">Dutch baby<\/a> (pictured) &#8211; these are a great breakfast go-to because you can build them easily into sweet or savory. This one is a turkey sausage and parmesan baby.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/sweet-potato-peanut-stew\/\">Sweet Potato, Red Lentil, and Peanut Stew<\/a> &#8211; This was the surprise favorite. A really neat combination of flavors and it&#8217;s good over rice or quinoa or basically anything.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krusteaz.com\/products\/cornbreads\/honey-cornbread-muffin-mix\">Cheesey cornbread<\/a> &#8211; this was just mix the box of stuff with some extra cheese. But it&#8217;s funny because I ordered the cornbread in the mail. It got delivered to Ronni by mistake. She thought it was for her (somehow) and I had to wrest it from her.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/recipes\/never-fail-scalloped-potatoes\/\">Never fail scalloped potatoes<\/a> &#8211; I had won a mandoline at trivia and never tried it. Then I bought five pounds of potatoes from a local farmer (well I bought 25 but gave 20 to the food bank) and needed a PLAN. These were simple and tasted great and froze easily.<\/li>\n<li>Late addition: I made this recipe three times, not sure how I forgot it: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonappetit.com\/recipe\/chewy-molasses-cookies\">Chewy Molasses Cookies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been really lucky in Orange County, COVID hasn&#8217;t been overwhelming, and people are great at staying the fuck home. The supermarket, farm stands, farmers and people-with-chickens have created a nice food ecosystem, and we have enough people with enough to be able to help out the people who don&#8217;t have enough. Early on I bought some stuff online (soy milk, cornbread, almonds, apricots, too many fritos) and my last cheese delivery came at the beginning of March. So while I really really miss cheeseburgers with friends and porch beers with friends and thai food with friends and the Wayside with Jim, it&#8217;s not the food that I&#8217;ve been missing. And the food helps me not miss the other stuff quite as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/a-month-of-food\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to A month of food\"><p>So except for a single slice of pizza, I haven&#8217;t eaten anything I didn&#8217;t make at home for a month. I&#8217;m a decent cook and have a decent pantry. But more to the point, I have a huge tolerance for eating the same thing over and over again. This means batch cooking, even for one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,83,4],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}