Not much to say here today, other than I grew some kind of wild hair this afternoon and decided it was time to make some kind of big deal meal for the family. I didn’t really follow my menu plan last week, which of course is no surprise (to me anyway), but I forgive myself and rationalize by saying that the first step is at least making it, right? If I at least make the plan, half the battle is won, and I just need to improve on the actual making the food part.
Anyway. I digress.
This afternoon I came home from class and I was absolutely starving. My wonderful neighbor had offered up some of what she had prepared for lunch, but I just wasn’t really in the mood. I thought I might like to eat some sleep instead and tried to lie down with the babies to get a few quick zzzz’s. The first day back to classes wore me out.
And I digress. Again.
I couldn’t fall asleep so I got up and started rummaging around in the cupboards, when my eyes fell on the lasagna noodles I bought when we first arrived here about 2 months ago. And I thought of that broccoli that was soon to be unusable in the fridge. And the tofu that was due to expire in a week.
And my veggie lasagna was born from these.
But I didn’t stop there. I made a salad. Without lettuce. You see, where we are here in Asia, lettuce can sometimes be hard to come by, and apparently I had used up the last of what we had. Or someone did. So I improvised and made a salad with just carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onions. Mixed ‘em all up with a little Italian dressing, and there were no complaints. I also made some delish garlic…toast I guess we will call it.
I made some fresh homemade garlic butter. Softened a stick of butter, crushed some fresh garlic, chopped some fresh parsley, mixed it all together, spread it on both sides of some bread and grilled it until it was nice and toasty. There were no complaints about that either!
All said and done it was quite an enjoyable meal.
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