{"id":1247,"date":"2010-09-28T18:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T01:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2010-09-28T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T01:41:05","slug":"whats-for-dinner-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"What’s for Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t done one of these posts in a while—I’ve kind of been winging it—but last weekend I was cleaning out the fridge and I had to throw away, like, six moldy zucchinis and a whole bunch of celery, and that made me sad. So this week I’m going back to the meal planning.<\/p>\n

On Saturday we got two bags of baby spinach, a bunch of cilantro, a bunch of kale, a bunch of sweet little multicolored carrots, two heads of broccoli, a head of cauliflower, three pears, three nectarines, a box of cherry tomatoes, and six small adorable little sweet potatoes. I guess it must be fall, if it’s sweet potato season. I feel like I was robbed of summer somehow: I mean, it’s been insanely hot recently, but summer was slow to come on and I haven’t gotten anywhere near my fill of big ripe tomatoes. Next year I’ll have to grow my own.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I did an okra stir-fry<\/a> with the cherry tomatoes (why do I never start buying okra until the summer is almost gone?), and tonight I’m trying out a crock-pot recipe for “braised pork loin with sweet potatoes, orange, and cilantro.” It sounds really great but it called for three jalape\u00f1os, and when I tasted it just now it seemed really, really spicy. So I’m worried about how that will come out.<\/p>\n

If it does turn out edible, we’ll definitely have leftovers, which I was counting on eating tomorrow along with a spinach salad. The kale as usual will go into a bulgur salad<\/a> for lunch, while Thursday I figured we’ll have roasted cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots alongside grilled sausages. The fruit will mostly take care of itself (the nectarines are already gone), but I might make a pear crisp one evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t done one of these posts in a while—I’ve kind of been winging it—but last weekend I was cleaning out the fridge and I had to throw away, like, six moldy zucchinis and a whole bunch of celery, and that made me sad. So this week I’m going back to the meal planning. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}