For those of you who do the majority of the cooking in your household, do you ever get tired of it or not feel up to making the meal? I've found I've cooked a lot more than ever during the pandemic and unlike some folks I have barely ordered food from anywhere to eat in or have it delivered.
It hasn't been easy as many of you will already know to dine in at most places. Additionally I always think I can make dinner in the time it takes to place an order and have it delivered. But every now and then I need a change.
The dinner in the photo below was what we had on Friday. It is a Vietnamese dish of Lemon Grass chicken and rice noodles, salad and a roll dip with vinegar sauce. It was so delicious. I've yet to try making anything other than salad rolls (made with rice paper) and I know and I keep telling myself to get started learning how to at least make some lemon grass chicken and Pad Thai noodles.
Saturday night I made stir fried noodles with vegetables and spices (sweet chili sauce, garlic, onions, carrots, zucchini and bell peppers). I made stir fried beef with onions in soya sauce to go along with it.It was quite nice too. Sunday dinner will be some roasted steak meat along with some roasted vegetables and salad. An easy dinner in the oven and a bag kit for the salad.
Have any of you seen the Netflix series called The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window? What did you think of it? I watched all 7 episodes over Friday and Saturday. It's a dark comedy/thriller/mystery and "borrows heavily" from the movie The Woman in the Window starring Amy Adams. Overall it was okay but a bit hokey in parts and there was some weak writing here and there. One such example is the overuse of the word "bingo" uttered by Kristen Bell who plays the series lead. This might not have been that noticeable except that it was used only in the last 1.5 hours of the series so came across as overused.
I also watched Room 2806: The Accusation a documentary film following events arising from the 2011 sexual assault case involving French politician, Dominique Strauss-Khan (DSK). I had heard about the sexual assault allegation on the news but had not followed the case or known exactly what happened to DSK. Some of you might remember that he was head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the time of the charges against him and a very powerful person in the world's system. He was heavily favoured to become the next Prime Minister of France after Sarkozy before the accusation ended his career and political aspirations.
Two books I picked up from the library on Friday are underway. They are rather different from one another. The Lemon Tree Hotel is about a family run hotel located in the Cinque Terra region of Italy. It's a pleasant, romantic novel which makes for some lighter subject matter. Not a Happy Family is a murder mystery of an elderly, wealthy couple whose offspring all have reason to come under suspicion for the demise of their parents. I haven't gotten far enough along to see what the details are as of yet but the author, Shari Lapena is Canadian and I've read another of her books, The Couple Next Door which I enjoyed.
I've had a good weekend so far. On Sunday I have a lot of little administrative and paperwork tasks to do and I also hope to do some reading. Lest you think I only cooked and ate and watched television, I did manage to do some errands and wash and fold some laundry.
Thank you to one of my blog readers, Jeanie from The Marmalade Gypsy who helped me figure out a way to leave comments on blogs once again. Saturday was the first time in a very long while that I was able to not only visit several blogs but also leave comments. Thank you too for your visit today. I appreciate you.
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You cook the most interesting and delicious sounding food. I think I'd like to take a Vietnamese or thai cooking class. I'm glad you're having a good weekend. And I'm glad the comment thing is working for you!
OH, I'm sorry I didn't realize you weren't able to visit or comment on blogs. I am glad you got it figured out. Your food sounds wonderful...I could never manage the special dishes you made, but they sure look good. I'm pretty much a traditional cook and don't do a lot of variety of foods, i.e.; ethnic foods/foreign dishes. I do make a good Mexican enchilada type meal, but it isn't very authentic...just good. I do get tired of cooking and wish someone else would take over...but hubby isn't likely to and our son who lives with us is an excellent cook, but he works long days and travels a long distance back and forth, so has no time to cook. He does create some interesting dishes for himself though, but usually too late for us to eat. LOL. Your tv shows and books sound intriguing. We've been watching a TV show called "Escape to the Chateau", which is a reality/documentary of an English couple who buy an old French Chateau and are restoring/renovating it room by room and support themselves by using the Chateau for a wedding venue. They are very creative and entertaining, and have two darling young children and a sweet set of grandparents who live on the property to help out with the kids. It's very fun and the photography is amazing. So we are enjoying that. That's about it right now for tv, etc. Hope you have a good week. We are still recovering from the omicron virus and so we aren't going out, but we are better and this week we hope to get back to normal. Praise God!
the cook around my place is getting very fatigued. She's tired of cooking.
It sounds like you had a good weekend! The pie looks good. I made one last week for my hubby who loves cherry pie. I used Pillsbury pie crust, which we really like - and it makes it so easy.
I have to admit to being thoroughly fed up with the kitchen. I used to love cooking but since COVID I seem to have had very few chances to get out of the kitchen. I have tried to vary meals as much as possible to keep my interest up but..... We live in a small hamlet in the country so nothing is delivered here. In the past 6 months we have ventured a couple of times into a restaurant but with such strict regulations it is not quite the same as it used to be! Because we grow most of our vegetables and fruit it also means that I spend hours preparing food for bottling, drying or freezing as well. I need a holiday!
Keep safe, Diane
That blueberry pie looks delicious.
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