On the plus side, I made six new recipes since last time. On the downside, I ate out three nights in a row, all of which were repeated restaurants, and only one of which was planned.

Monday, May 27 - With Memorial Day off, it was easy to make a two part dinner. The main entree was Sweet and Sour Chicken with Broccoli from the June 2019 Eating Well ( Read more... )

Since my last post I went to two baseball games as well as Chicago, which delayed my prior post enough that this one covers more days than any other summary to date. It also adds a lot of restaurants.

Friday, May 17 - We went to the Orchestra to see my friend Dashon perform. For comparatively late night eats, we stopped in at Woodstock BBQ. The ( Read more... )

After all the eating out in the last edition, I managed to cook at home for most meals this time, and most of them were new recipes to boot.

Friday, May 10 - The March/April 2018 Eating Well had a section of Burmese salads, which yielded up this Green Bean & Shallot Salad. The fish oil gives it a savory flavor that soaks into the numerous shallots ( Read more... )

Bird Nerd weekend put some travel restaurants on the list and created some new challenges for my stats. There was probably more eating out and less cooking than any prior week, but such is life.

Thursday, May 2 - My notes in Moosewood Favorites say that M really liked the Indonesian Rice Salad when I made it in late 2017, but I don't think I'd ( Read more... )

This past week featured four restaurants in one day, three new recipes and another successful dinner party.

Thursday, April 25 - Moosewood Favorites offered up another actual favorite of mine, the Moroccan Couscous Salad. It's quick to make and pretty to boot - the cookbook actually says that they routinely use it for events because it is so ( Read more... )

This week included my first substantial travel of the year, as M and I went to my parents' new home in western Pennsylvania. My other did all the cooking there, to the benefit of my taste buds. Despite that, this post pushed me past 100 dishes cooked for the year ( Read more... )

I believe this is the first post that didn't include a new recipe, but that's ok because it includes several recipes that are old favorites.

Thursday, April 11 - One of my favorite pasta recipes is the Pasta with Asparagus and Lemon Sauce from the Moose Favorites cookbook. The asparagus is boiled a bit to make it soft, then thrown in a food ( Read more... )

April 10 is the 100th day of the year. Since I started tracking on January 2, this means we're 99 days in, which is enough to start drawing some conclusions. So, conclusions ( Read more... )

After one quarter of tracking my major meals, I can say with some certainty that meals with my friends are the best meals, although meals after baseball games are a close second.

Friday, March 29 - I swear, I posted an old list of places to eat and more or less coincidentally I start going to them. On Friday, my friend Colleen was in town for the ( Read more... )

I decided to track leftover nights, because clearly I don't have enough statistical categories in this project. And yes, I went back through the prior posts and added them up. I need help ( Read more... )