domestication nation

i've been bitten by the domestic bug over the past few days; here's a list of the food i've made since friday, when it all began...


friday

• hummus
• cous cous with fresh spinach
• roasted carrots

saturday

• fresh banana muffins
• carrot and spinach quiche
• marinara sauce (made from an old bottle of little pengiun shiraz)

sunday

• sweet potato soup with ginger and nutmeg
• "vodka sauce"/cream of tomato soup (see below for explanation)

monday

• baby zucchini, yellow squash and tomato casserole
• baked spaghetti squash

so, yes, i don't know what has gotten into me, other than jeremy buying an incredible amount of spinach, and me feeling the need to keep it from going to waste...and, at the same time, get back into the habit of making evie's meals as much from scratch as possible.

i must say, i am really a fan of allrecipies.com right now. the soup recipe came from allrecipies,and it was delectible. (my assistant/baby daddy, jeremy, accidentially added 3x the nutmeg call for in the soup. oops! and, as he noted, it's much more a fall soup than spring. but delish, nonetheless).

i started the sauce on saturday to find a use for the old wine, and attempted to turn it into a soup on sunday. it ended up as a vodka-type cream sauce (with shiraz rather than vodka, obviously) which was quite good.

the spaghetti squash baked yesterday will become another quiche today for dinner. some of the squash will also be added to pasta and leftover sauce for another meal.

i'm quite obsessed with the mantra "reduce, reuse, recycle", as anyone who has seen the current condition of my jeans can tell you. it's almost become a game for me lately, to see how far i can stretch things, reinvent, etc., and how little i can waste.

i'll report back with news of today's food adventures soon.

by the by, the problem isn't that gas is too expensive, it's that gas (i.e. oil) is a limited, and dwindling, resource. we need to start thinking in terms of renewable energy...and that it is far less expensive to run a hybrid system than a completely oil-guzzling one.