Fingers crossed it stops snowing for me to use the grill. I will make herbed jasmine rice for the skewers and some roasted sesame broccoli.

I have no plans for dinner yet. I'll stare in the fridge later, I am very blessed and grateful I have many choices today

Tonights dinner is crustless ham and cheese quiche, oven roasted potatoes and peas.

with dill and buttery bread crumbs on top
Spanish rice
carrots and broccoli

dessert: homemade chocolate cupcakes w/ chocolate/orange frosting and chopped almonds on top. (The food pantry gave us a HUGH(!!!) bag of almonds.)

One time they gave us a huge bag of dried cherries, and a couple of times huge bags of dried figs. Even a large container of sea salt. Never knew what we were going to get outside of what they asked us about before pickup.

carries non-food items like toothpaste, shampoo, laundry soap, dish washing liquid--even dog food. They don't let you walk through and take what you want, so you get limited quantities of things. We go there every other week.


There is another one that we go to that only lets you in once a month, but they really do let you take a lot of things. There's a limit on butter, eggs cheese and frozen proteins, but all of the boxed and canned stuff is first-come-first-serve. Sometimes they have some fresh vegetables, but not often (and they've never offered us frozen vegetables).

Two months ago when we went (to the monthly one), we were the last ones to walk through. Not a lot left to choose from. However, it stunned me to see that everyone ahead of us had walked by three 2 lb. bags of walnuts. I grabbed them. They're in my freezer.

Given what nuts cost, I wasn't going to leave them at the food bank.

It's in a large old church and they're only open a couple days a week. You call each week, they ask you questions about allergies and what your family will eat. Then they pack it up, you drive up to pick it up. Wasn't anything besides food products, no toiletries, etc. and they just throw in any extras that people have dropped off, like the cherries and figs, or sometimes granola bars, flavored soda water (which we don't like), chocolate candy sometimes.

We've since given them a couple of small monetary donations (since they can make the $ go farther compared to dropping off food donations) to help them keep helping people. I'd like to go volunteer, but with COVID still going around and almost no one in our area masking (they really never did), that shoots that idea.

but he just wants another Morningstar Farms Chik'n Sandwich with fries. He really likes MF chik'n. Which is good since I definitely don't feel like cooking today, but I have to start making myself eat something. Can't keep not eating. It had some scary results this morning.

recipe from The Smitten Kitchen Keepers. With roasted asparagus, with garlic, lemon juice and parmesan.

Pickles and bean salad.

Didn't have much time between getting home and setting up for a Zoom meeting, so went with something quick: fried tortillas, refried beans, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, salsa. And an apple for dessert