Friday Food: Daily Asparagus

I don't list it every day, but we are indeed eating asparagus every day. Sometimes it's just a few spears cooked in the microwave for my salad. Often it's a bunch of spears that go into whatever pan is on the stove or in the oven already. It's great. I love asparagus season.

Friday 

Short version: Lamb curry, rice

Long version: I had one whole lamb steak left from a couple of nights before. That's not enough for everybody, unless I make it into something else. Like curry.

So that is what I did. The potatoes, carrots, and split peas in the curry stretch the meat nicely. Also, it used up the last couple cups of chicken stock that had been hanging out in the refrigerator.

Saturday

Short version: Bull Big Macs, oven fries, almost-peas

Long version: A. and I (mostly A.) spent a couple of hours grinding bull meat in the morning. So I used some of that ground meat to make cheeseburgers. I was also baking bread that day, so I made some hamburger buns with some of the dough. And I figured since I had already done all of that, I might as well make Big Mac sauce.

This was the day I dumped peas all over my oven. This happened just as I was serving up dinner, which meant I didn't bother with a vegetable for everyone else. They were supposed to have the peas. I counted the lettuce on their hamburgers as a vegetable and let it go at that. Because that's kind of where I'm at mentally these days.

Sunday

Shortt version: Fish sandwiches, baked beans, carrot sticks, chocolate ice cream

Long version: This whole meal came about because I had more of the Big Mac sauce to use, and it works well as a tartar sauce.

I had another box of whole breaded fish fillets in the freezer that I had bought during Lent, so I used those to make fish sandwiches. I also had a container of baked beans in the freezer, and that seemed to go along with the sandwiches.

I took a picture for you. Because why not?

Monday

Short version: Leftover curry and rice, egg salad sandwiches, storebrand corn chips, raw radishes, yogurt with strawberry jam

Long version: I had read before about adding hardboiled eggs to curry sauce, and since there wasn't a lot of lamb left in the curry, A. tried that. He said it was really good, so that's handy to know.

I had hardboiled a bunch of eggs the day before, which make it easy to add them to the curry and also make egg salad for sandwiches. Because there wasn't enough curry for everyone. So a couple of kids had the sandwiches instead.

And then everyone had some of the Walmart version of Fritos.

And THEN, they all yogurt.

After that the feeding frenzy abated.

Tuesday

Short version: Lamb steaks, bread and butter, frozen peas

Long version: I had a slightly more ambitious plan than this for dinner, but then I was driving to pick up a kid when I should have been cooking, so I had to do something faster. The steaks were already marinating and just needed to be fried.

Earlier in the day I had made sugar cookies for the last First Communion class, to sort of look like a host (the communion bread). I don't have a piping bag, though, and the icing crosses were . . . well, let's be kind and say free-style.

Clearly homemade. And also delicious.

Wednesday

Short version: Plan B fried rice, apples and peanut butter

Long version: I knew I wouldn't have a lot of time to make dinner this night, as I would be at the last First Communion class. I was very proud of myself for making rice with beef stock in the morning and dicing up the leftover lamb steaks. The plan was to add the meat to the last of the curry, plus some more peas, the rest of the beef stock, and some instant potato flakes to thicken it, and serve that over the rice.

I did not share my plan with A., however, and he ate all of the lamb and some of the rice for lunch.

So! Plan B! Which, as it so often does, involved eggs.

It would have been fastest to just scramble eggs and heat up the rice with butter, but instead I cooked some diced onion and frozen peas with the rice and eggs to make a meatless fried rice. This meant a meal that took more like 30 minutes instead of 10 minutes, but it was good.

Those who were still hungry had the apples and peanut butter after dinner.

Thursday

Short version: Lamb steaks, mashed potatoes, asparagus, cucumbers with salt and vinegar

Long version: Yet another bag of lamb steaks, yet again marinated and just fried. With asparagus in the pan.

A frequent sight on the stove these days.

Everyone likes this way of preparing the lamb, and it's easy, so I'm sticking with it. Heaven knows I could use something easy at this time of year (end-of-school-year time, that is).

A. went to the store yesterday, which is why we had cucumbers. And that reminds me that I need to plant my cucumber seeds anytime now, so we can have cucumbers without having to drive 180 miles.

Refrigerator check:

Clearly a post-grocery-shopping refrigerator. With plenty of tortillas, much to Walmart lady's dismay, I'm sure.

Okay, your turn! What'd you eat this week?