It’s not been a big week for cooking dinner – Tuesday I had a big lunch with a faculty candidate, and Wednesday I didn’t get enough steps, so both nights I wasn’t hungry for dinner.
The title refers to the big bowl of oatmeal with dates, 1/2 a cup of dry oats instead of the usual 1/3 cup, and a few handfuls of potato chips snarfed down while it was cooking, that I had for Wednesday dinner. This meal accompanied folding laundry and a mini-marathon of the last two episodes of This Is Us, which means remembering the 1990s.
The mini-marathon was because I fell asleep and missed a few crucial things during this week’s This Is Us, and the week before at Myrtle Beach there was to much going on to pay proper attention.
Before This Is Us Tuesday night I had a banana with peanut butter and tea with milk and sugar for dinner,said big lunch that day being Steenbock’s Mushroom Quesadillas, which were enormous.
The chipotle dipping sauce was good on the side of fries. I think the version of escabeche in this case was pickled celery, onion, and carrot
This is more like how I used to eat last January when I was leading my single life in Seattle, and could eat oatmeal for dinner right out of the pot. I think Mark made a sandwich Tuesday, and Wednesday had leftover pizza.
Tomorrow I’m hoping we’ll go the opening for this book arts show (that I’m “in” – more remembering the ’90s) and eat downtown. I’m sure Mark will like that a lot better.
Register for Jim Dast’s spring 1991 bookbinding class
I’m in good company on that register. Jennifer Stibbitz worked in the libraries and is now retired. Tracy Dietzel is a book artist. I think Art Hove’s Pictorial History of Wisconsin was just about to be published when we took that class. He died in 2014.
Arthur Hove, special assistant the chancellor, is pictured with his pictorial history book about the University of Wisconsin-Madison while standing in front of Bascom Hall Sept. 1991. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)
I have been cooking just not much dinners. For pantry meal this week, we made 2 big pans of spinach, egg, and cheese strata, and one smaller pan with the same ingredients but no bread so it’d be gluten free. Mashed sweet potatoes and apples that were really good – I brought home a carton and I’m going to make sweet potato pie. Pulled pork in BBQ sauce made from tomato soup, molasses, and whatever chili spices I could find. And green salad, with Terese’s famous raspberry vinaigrette, and oranges and pineapple, too.
And I don’t know if that’s really snow or frost or an optical illusion on the Capitol Dome, but it was there Tuesday in the late afternoon.