Lots of cooking!

Saturday morning I finished the September menu. A bit more exhausting than just a weekly menu – but not proportionately more. We loaded up on dried beans and other staples at SuperTarget and other basics at Costco.

Yesterday CC and I started the day at the Farmer’s Market – we found the remaining items on the grocery list, including a ton of basil ($1 per bunch) and a huge bucket of carrots for $4 (they were the ugly carrots).

Now that the deep freeze is installed – it’s time to cook much fabulous food!
So we cooked. We took a break for a tasty beverage and then headed back up to cook again. Unfortunately the sink was plugged and water had backed up into the kitchen. Drano, drano, and more drano last night appear to have fixed the problem for now. And to ensure it doesn’t return, we’re going to use the garbage disposal less and also institute some green home remedies I found online.
But we kept cooking. Two different curries, each recipe tripled. And I made eight two-person servings of pesto. And then we froze everything!

Tonight we’re shopping for a stock pot. We’ve got an 8 quart pot, but that won’t be enough for soup when I triple the recipe. That folly begins this coming Thursday when I make carrot-ginger soup!

All in all – I’m very encouraged. Monthly shopping for staples – and then smaller, precise shopping for fresh vegetables each week.

Two asides:
I’m making pizza dough next weekend. We’ve been fond of Boboli’s – but I noticed that even at SuperTarget they were $4.20 each!
The soup folly requires much much chicken stock. We thought it would be cheaper to buy the larger cartons of stock, rather than 6 cans – but I decided we should do the math. Turns out that 6 cans of stock was slightly more than $1 cheaper than the cartons. Ugh!