Gastro-intestinal tract is still intact here. I feel tired & run down, but I've been up since five o'clock and have spent the day with a three-year-old. No need to attribute that feeling to a virus.
In answer to the question, "So, what's in the repertoire so far?" I've decided to compile a list. I'm aiming for 40 answers to the question "What's for dinner?" This might seem like too much, but I'm trying for variety; that seems to be a good way to cover a lot of nutritional bases.
I believe I'm only up to a dozen so far--oh, such a long way to go. I include here the name of the dish, along with the source of the recipe, as I firmly believe in giving credit where credit is due.
1. Tacos with cilantro-onion-lime juice topping (my head)
2. Spaghetti with Meat Sauce (Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook)
3. Meatball Sandwiches (Cuisine at Home)
4. Chicken Wild Rice Soup, broth version (The Good Carb Cookbook)
5. Baked Pork Chops (Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse Cookbook)
6. Turkey Shepherd's Pie (Back to the Table)
7. Beef Pot Roast (Cook's Illustrated)
8. Pan Fried Orange Roughy (A New Way to Cook)
9. Baked Buttermilk Chicken (Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse Cookbook)
10. Pork Medallions in a Sherry Mushroom Sauce (The Good Carb Cookbook)
11. Chicken Piccata (Frugal Gourmet tv. show) or other cutlets (Cuisine at Home)
12. Roast Chicken (various sources, mainly from How to Eat by Nigella Lawson)
13. Wooly Rhino Ribs (Julia Child, The Way to Cook. Okay, so she doesn't call them wooly rhino ribs, but that's what we call spare ribs around here & when we eat them we pretend we are cave people.)
These entrees are usually accompanied by steamed parsley-chive buttered new potatoes, baked or twice-baked potatoes, risotto or wild rice pilaf. Plus a vegetable of some sort and often a salad. But I'm still working on building up a vegetable repetoire and as for salad, I'm happy to open a bag of lettuce, give it a rinse and a spin to dry, but I cannot find a perfectly delicious vinaigrette. I'll keep looking.
After the new year, when I've a bit more time to devote to this blog and can re-organize it, I'll keep a running sidebar list of what's on the dinner repetoire.
Many things I cook, such as my beloved lentejas con chorizo, cannot go on the dinner repetoire because my husband would never eat them. He finds pulses repulsive. Can you believe this? And beans have kept civilization alive at times! Will I ever understand the man I married?
My poor little food blog. I hope no one ever looks to me for cooking tips or impressive recipes; I'm merely trying to become an adequate home cook, one that does not necessarily take short cuts or have dinner on the table in 20 minutes. I don't mind putting in one or two hours or even an afternoon cooking dinner, provided that I know what's in store for me ahead of time.
Today I caught Madeleine Kamman giving a food class for the Master Chef series on PBS. I finally got to see the author of my beloved "When Frenchwomen Cook". She was making mussels in cream and students were busily taking notes. For a moment I was quite wistful, wishing I could have been in the class, though I guess I could manage it on my own--if I could just find some decent mussels.
10:33:04 PM 
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