Staring at my blank meal plan for the next week

[conuly]

utterly uninspired. What's everybody else cooking?

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New York City adds 5-cent fee for paper bags after state bans plastic bags (It's really not that big a deal to reuse the same cotton tote 52 times, or 300 times, or 1000 times, like all these articles imply.)

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Comments

[kengr]

Well, I've got a frozen turkey breast that I'm gonna throw in the crockpot along with some potatoes and carrots.

Also have some frozen catfish and salmon I need to fry up.

Probably try to make some cheater tuna casserole (mac & cheese with cream of shroom soup, peas and tuna added) only I'll probably use the canned salmon instead of tuna.

got various chicken, tuna and hamburger helpers I can make. Might try my heavily modified beans and rice dish.

then there's the lazy fallback, fry up some diced potatoes along with chunked hot dogs or the like.

[angelofthenorth]

Pork loin steak and veg
Mushroom risotto
Rhubarb crumble

[dine]

a salad with 'stuff' tonight - I add cheese & either salmon or ham for protein to bagged salad

then later in the week probably chicken & rice, maybe some soup (depending on what's lying about) and chili

[senmut]

The joke here is my irish shows because one fo my two days to cook weekly is BOUND to be potatoes and beef.

[redsixwing]

I made ALL of the eggs for a friend's Easter dinner, which means I now have some hard-boiled and marinating in miso for later.

Also, all the pickles, because my very favorite spring vegetable has appeared in stores, and I know they'll only be available for a few weeks. (Those tiny, round turnips, the mild-flavored ones? Those make the actual best pickle when treated with salt and pickled plum.)

That article about the cameras in stores was sort of the last straw, inspiring me to start collating surveillance news separately than the rest of my social media. One feed was being slowly taken over by reposting news about this sort of creepy shiz and I need to separate it out.

[greghousesgf]

the article about less visible disabilities got to me. I have Asperger's and have been accused of faking it in order to get out of working (and I know a lot of people think Asperger's isn't even real.)

[pauraque]

It's finally not snowing, so I just made a celebratory fruit salad. Dinner's going to be pasta salad with random veggies.

[hannah]

Breakfast is scrambled eggs with salsa or an RX Bar if I wake up too late. Lunch is frittata slices or home fries made with onions, frozen peppers, and plenty of herbs. Dinner is stovetop brisket, slow-cooked to make it all fall apart, with roasted potatoes and broccoli.

[larryhammer]

We're still using up turkey meat left over from the seder -- the last two nights mixed with stock and rice noodles and matzoh balls to make a soup. Not sure what Janni's doing tonight (it's her turn to cook) but since we're out of rice noodles I'll probably switch to sweet potato noodles, possibly done as the bed for a stir fry (I'd lo mien them, but I don't think they'll take well to actually going into the wok). Though honestly, despite the fry recipe on the package (in Korean and wonky English) I suspect these will do better in a soup.

Menu options do take a hit during Passover ...

[author_by_night]

Found the one on hearing loss interesting. I can relate to some of it; especially people being better off on my other side.

I don't like it defining me, but I feel I already realize that. It's more getting other people to "get" it. I don't even like talking about it because I don't want to be Hearing Loss. In fact, I don't even like that term, nor "hearing impaired." I have shitty hearing and hearing aids. Which, admittedly, I do my best to hide. :/ It shouldn't be that way, though.

Though in my case, I feel like if you work with people who have some disabilities, it's not hard to work out that I have a few spoons.

[jessie_c]

I made chicken soup, but then I burned it so last night dinner was Pizza.

I have some port tenderloins in the freezer. They go well with a blueberry reduction (Some frozen blueberries, pan drippings from browning the pork, a little water, sugar, lemon juice and red wine. Simmer and reduce the liquid to about half. Spoon under the sliced tenderloin after it's baked.

[kengr]

20 Years On, The Background Check System Continues To Miss Dangerous Gun Buyers

Besides the shortcomings described in the article, there's a more crucial flaw. All the background check system can do is check for people who aren't legally allowed to have a gun.

People who "shouldn't" have a gun are a set that only has *some* overlap with the set of folks who aren't legally allowed to have a gun.

And, as much as we'd like to ignore it, "mental health" checks aren't going to improve things.

Y'see most mass shooters seem to be completely sane. the problem isn't their sanity, it's their *beliefs*

[adrian_turtle]

The availability of guns has an enormous effect on suicide. Do you happen to know if mental health checks make any difference there? Suicide doesn't get nearly as much media attention as mass shootings, but it kills a lot more people. (Most suicides are impulsive, so we can make some difference with just a two-week waiting period and a bunch of inconvenient paperwork.)

[kengr]

There *aren't* any mental health checks associated with buying guns.

*If* you've been diagnosed with certain things *and* if it was reported properly, *then* it may show up in the background check.

I do recall reading somewhere that even the 3-day waiting periods reduce suicides.

[rahirah]

Lamb shwarma!

[randomdreams]

Tonight, broiled trout on rice with asparagus on the side and blueberry pie (which I admit I purchased) for dessert. But I think I'm gonna try making croissants afterwards, for second dessert.

[kaffy_r]

I'm so awful at planning meals, even though I keep pledging to do week-by-week planning, that actually knowing in the morning what I'll put together for the evening meal is a triumph.

I mean, yesterday, we scrounged, and I had apple-plum sauce (I made a humongous amount this weekend) and ice-cream. Yes, I am retired, why do you ask? On the other hand, BB asked for comfort food of his choice tonight: burger, mashed potatoes and corn.

A couple of days earlier, it was slow-cooker Japanese style chicken, and rice, and carrot sticks. I plan on making an Indian chickpea curry in the slow-cooker later this week, and I have frozen trout I need to find a decent recipe for.

[cellio]

Tonight was broiled lambchops, thin-sliced roasted blue potatoes with rosemary and sea salt finished off under the broiler for extra crisping), and roasted parsnips. Last night was eggs scrambled with sauteed greens. Tomorrow's farm share involves lots of greens, so probably salad. Fish the night before last and probably again later this week (fish is a staple here). Any of that help?

[spikethemuffin]

Super broke and my executive function is MUCH better when I get too much protein, so omelettes and roast chicken. Fortunately, I'm right down the street from Aldi, so eggs are couch change.

[adrian_turtle]

You say it's not a big deal to re use a cotton tote 50 times. I've done that, but it isn't trivially easy. When I leave home to go shopping, and only to go shopping...sure, it's not a big deal to carry the empty bag. But it's bulky enough to fill more than a quarter of my messenger bag. I can't just use it for spontaneous "stop and buy a few things on the way home." I still like it, and still use it (though I don't think I'm near a thousand uses, and many of those haven't replaced store bags.) ...but the only way to keep using it will be to mend it yet again.

The nylon bag does fit in my messenger bag. And in the pocket of my parka, if I'm not also carrying a hat. But I had to mend the nylon bag after less than 50 uses.

[polydad.livejournal.com]

I'm having a bunch of vegan friends over for dinner, so dinner will consist of babaganouch, hummus, chips to scoop up preceding (I don't have the right kind of oven for making pita), mixed salad, and fruit salad. Probably enough leftovers to feed me for most of the rest of the week.