{"id":5205,"date":"2019-08-25T22:53:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T03:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2019-08-31T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T01:45:49","slug":"recent-cooking-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/25\/recent-cooking-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Cooking Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I made a pie. Tuesday Mark and I ate some of it for dinner, with ice cream. Thursday I took the last of it to work, and brought home the empty pie dish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5207\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emptypie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emptypie.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emptypie-150x130.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emptypie-520x450.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peach, plum, cherry pie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wednesday I made a test batch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/maya-mediterranean-chocolate-rice-pudding-arroz-con-leche-y-chocolate-recipe-1911069\">Mexican chocolate rice pudding<\/a> that was the dessert for the Eat Smart in Mexico dinner Saturday. The recipe I used, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatsmartguides.com\/store\/p5\/Eat_Smart_in_Mexico.html\">Eat Smart in Mexico<\/a>, is the same but 2 cans of sweetened condensed milk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mexdinner-1024x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mexdinner-1024x413.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mexdinner-150x60.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mexdinner-650x262.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mexdinner.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take any pictures. We served it in little mason jars, Ed made candied orange peel to garnish, and I made Windmill Cookies to go with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies-150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies-473x450.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rachael got here Thursday, Emma&#8217;s birthday. Emma stopped by and we sampled a bit of the pudding. After we went grocery shopping, and ate various forms of cucumber sandwiches for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I had salad with croutons and goat cheese and cherries for dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cherrysalad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cherrysalad.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cherrysalad-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cherrysalad-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning I had indulgent oatmeal with dates, banana, and a drizzle each of maple syrup and heavy cream.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/indulgeoatmeal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/indulgeoatmeal.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/indulgeoatmeal-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/indulgeoatmeal-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what the garage looked like Monday, when they took the forms off the cement. But no one&#8217;s been here the rest of the week to do anything. At least we could park in the driveway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/foundation.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/foundation-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/foundation-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I made a pie. Tuesday Mark and I ate some of it for dinner, with ice cream. Thursday I took the last of it to work, and brought home the empty pie dish. Wednesday I made a test batch of Mexican chocolate rice pudding that was the dessert for the Eat Smart in Mexico &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/25\/recent-cooking-adventures\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[233,5,21],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-5205","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-garage","10":"post_tag-week-night-cooking","11":"post_tag-weekends"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}