use real butter

I travel to Denver starting with my 5:59 am busride tomorrow morning to give a talk at 8:30. Guess who is sleeping on the bus? I know Jeremy can cook, but I also know his life is easier and perhaps a tad happier if I cook a few meals ahead for him while I’m gone. It’s even better than that when I make non-meals or what most people call sweets.

key ingredients: guittard chocolate chips and crushed cornflakes

comfort food

Last night after work, we did our weekly grocery shopping which included a trip to Costco this time. But before pulling into the parking lot, I announced I was hungry – I hadn’t eaten in eight hours. Jeremy said, “I’m hungry too!” We detoured to Wendy’s for an order of fries and thus a financial disaster was averted… Never shop when you are hungry.

I bought salt.

In the past 24 hours, I have cooked a lot of dishes: crock pot roast beef (for KJ), tofu red curry, crusted roast pork loin, turkey reuben sandwiches, and homemade chicken soup (for KJ). Crock pots are friggin awesome. They’re more energy efficient and such a great way to slow cook food (let’s hear it for slow food!).

tofu red curry

how to make chicken broth from scratch (requires chicken)

luscious, juicy pineapple

if i pre-cut the fruit, jeremy’s fruit consumption increases

I whipped up some crabcakes, hashbrowns, and stir-fried zucchini for dinner tonight. Jeremy loves fresh hashbrowns on the skillet and I had some extra yukon golds to finish off.

I got the biggest pomegranate I have ever seen the other night, for Jeremy. He loves pomegranates. These were all behemoths grown by POM, the makers of the pomegranate juice and juice blends. He told me he was fearful that POM might be some evil company (he hasn’t looked into it and I’m too tired to do so now). I told him since it wasn’t labelled organic, it already had one strike against it. Which got me to thinking that there really are very few companies that I feel I can support guilt-free. Then again, I imagine it is like choosing the lesser of two evils (sort of like elections). Tonight, anyway, the pomegranate seeds were bursting with juicy flavor.