Thanks to everyone who provided suggestions and inspiration to get me out of my rut. Please, keep them coming! I think my mojo is slowly creeping back as evidenced by googling "baked scotch egg recipes." Thanks to Cheryl's suggestion, I used some of the leftover Thanksgiving turkey stock and some chicken breast and mirepoix to make a nice soup. Perfectly timed because we are all in various stages of the first cold of the winter.
Surprisingly, M really likes soup. I can remember being served a lot of soup as a child and pretty much only eating bread for dinner those nights, so I find it really surprising that M not only likes soup, but after he picked the chicken out he told me he only wanted the broth. OK, fine, it was made with turkey, fresh herbs and potatoe water, so it's basically a meal in itself. There wasn't a huge amount of soup so Peter and I supplemented with some simple sandwiches of camembert that Peter brought back from Paris last week on baguette from our awesome local French bakery.
This weekend we've planned a pork roast for Peter's birthday celebration. We only have a few short days before we head home for Christmas so I'll have to build on My mojo in the new year.
To help you with your mojo, here's a blog I enjoy a lot (although since I don't eat meat apart from fish there's not a lot in it for me).
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dinneralovestory.com/
I still can't get over the fact that your floors get cleaned twice a week (by you) and that you don't consider laundry enough of a chore to list it as such. I'm so never inviting you over.
Merilee--thanks for the inspiration. And don't forget I'm not really working right now. Plus, it's all relative. In NY I had to walk 3 blocks to do laundry so actually having a washing machine in the apartment makes laundry a total pleasure!
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