Journal

2013 - Week 34 Cooking

  • BATC (with Butcher Crick Farms tomatoes this time)
  • Sausage, Tomato, pepper and onion pasta
  • (not so) Grilled Lamb Kofte (p19 Cook's Illustrated July & August 2013)
  • Crooked Gap Brats
  • Local Beef Burgers (I'm pretty sure from Coyote Run Farm, it's been in the freezer for a while) 

I picked up the first apples for me of the season this year (Summer Treat).  Excited to have them around again.  I'm also having trouble staying inside the 40$ budget.  Basically $40 are the standard supplies I get in a week, a bit of pork, some vegetables, eggs, some goat cheese, and maybe, if I'm lucky, a La Mie Ham and Swiss Croissant.  With the optional things coming up (apples, tomatoes, new things to try (local blueberries)), I'm basically bound by the budget I had to set to cover an unexpected rise in a bill.  It's driving me up the wall a bit.  I had to reduce a bunch of things to pay for this bill.  Some, not so bad (really the big difference between Entertainment and Ultimate on DirecTV was one or two channels I watch occasionally and a bunch of sports channels that I don't care about), others, like reducing the discs from netflix just sort of reflect reality, but the farmer's market thing really hurts.

I also found out that I have a double ear infection (middle ear in both, outer ear in one) .  Got some antibiotics and some drops.  Fun Fun.