Sausage

Tuesday would’ve been a trip for a team meeting, but due to an ice storm, or at least a mixture, worse in where I was going then here, so I ended with a normal Tuesday, mostly. So the Hot dogs came in handy as a quick dinner hater hanging out at the Cheese Shop for a bit. Good things.

French Bread Pizza

With the leftover jared sauce and some frozen pepperoni from La Quercia and some smoked mozzarella. Good dinner, vaguely following the cooking directions from ATK.

Hamburger

Double Delayed!

We ended up going to Basic Bird which is new to the Beaverdale neighborhood, but not new to Des Moines (was a Sunday thing at Harbinger). It was busy, but quick paced. After waiting in line for a bit, mostly cause this older couple in front of us had trouble deciding what to do and ordering things that they hadn’t already run out of. Shannon decided then went to claim a place to site. Shannon had the Cheese Rice Dumplings bowl. We shared the honey butter french fries. and I had the boneless chicken with Spicy Gochujang and the Potato Salad, Shishito Peppers and Cucumber Kimchi. I also had a flavored soju. I hope I can get original at some point. Good Time, good food, much better then having to drive it home (not that it’s bad, but, not as crunch). With a challenging Friday, the leftover chicken and kimchi made for a delightful highlight to the day.

Friday work things went a bit off the rail, and after a lot of worrying and etc, hopefully everything got resolved, but by the end of the day I was exhausted, so given the offer, Shannon went and picked up food at B-Bops. Thus a second delay.

Shrimp Fried Rice

While I had leftover rice from before, this assumed I’d be making the rice, so that shortened the time frame a bit. Quickly came together after I took a not quite as short as I intended nap. When I was getting up to make the dish, the power blipped a bit, and a bit then out. After trying to figure out what was going on then reporting it to the power company, I pulled out some kitchen flashlights (one from my mother in law, one from one of my brothers) and started preparing dinner in the dark. I made sure to get everything other of the fridge at the same time, use a lighter to get the stove going. It came together pretty well, with the lights coming back on shortly before I finished. Unlike the last power outage, where I swore I was going to get more of these solar rechargeable flash lights, I actually found them and put them in a cart. The flashlight has been sitting on the window above the sink with other nicknacks, to make it handy to grab there.

Thai Coconut Chicken Soup

Easy to put together, good food. Used the last sweet potato I had in the house.