New Week

It is rainy and grey here today but we need the rain so that's fine.  Saturday was very wet and a perfect day to read and nap with the dog.  Sunday I made it to the farmer's market and am stocked up with food.  I know I have a menu planned for Wednesday, but that may be optimistic depending on class that day.

I ended up not getting fish to grill for Sunday.  When I checked out the fish selections the salmon did look great but we've had that the past 2 weeks.  They did have some fresh cod and it was $6.99 per pound so that's what I got and changed my menu in my mind.  I went with oven roasted instead.  I bought small red potatoes and roasted them whole at 400 degrees with a little olive oil, salt, pepper and fresh rosemary from the garden.  I let them roast for about 50 minutes then started the fish. 

For the fish I found a piece of sour dough bread in the freezer so I made fresh breadcrumbs with that.  I added lemon pepper seasoning (from Penzeys), fresh lemon zest, fresh garlic and tossed it all together.  I pressed the crumbs on the fish and it went into the oven with the potatoes.  I roasted it for about 20 minutes I think, it was a medium thick piece of fish.  While that was cooking I cleaned my fresh green beans, placed them in boiling water for about 7 minutes, added a touch of butter, salt and pepper.  It was a great meal.  I also had a glass of pinot noir.  Excellent. 

For dessert we had decadent Texas Sheetcake Bars from The Cake Mix Doctor.  I was bored on Saturday afternoon and found that I had a German Chocolate Cake mix in the pantry.  Also the rest of the ingredients needed for this.  Very good, very rich, they went to work with my husband today so they would not get eaten here.  I may have to start taking some things to neighbors over weekends.  Thank goodness my husband does go to an office.

I planned menus this morning for my clients for next week.  I have no menu creativity in the afternoons so I got that done in a few hours this morning.  All are different - two clients eat no fish, one client loves fish, one client is on a low fat plan with lots of veggies, I enjoy the planning.  It's like a game for me to match a perfect menu to a particular client. 

That's it for now.  Maybe some cleaning will need to happen now.  I avoided that this weekend.