Dodge Eats!: December 2020 Self-Isolation Meals

Tuesday, Dec 1 2020
L - hot link beef sausage with left over potato salad and baked beans
D - leftover turkey dinner

Wednesday, Dec 2, 2020
L - Turkey Noodle soup - from turkey stock made by putting onion, carrot, celery and turkey bones in instapot for 30 min high pressure. Should have strained after first prepared, but I put in the frig. The stock had so much gelatin - it was difficult to pull the bones and things out. I ended up heating it and then straining. served with crackers
D - Alex's Chicken Pot Pie - but we made with turkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbgpNZfi6Xo
Sourcream crust https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/sour_cream_pie_crust/, lots of wine, sauce, carrots, cauliflower, add peas before putting in the casserole, top with crust. Well received, and looked very nice. Supposed to be 8 servings I think, but we will end up with more than that. Next time cook the carrots separately, maybe microwave them.

Thursday, Dec 3, 2020
L - Alex's Chicken Pot Pie with the last of the sage dressing - when we had I just portioned off the pot pie into each plate so each person got a little of the crust. (We had considered making crust separately and adding with each serving. Not needed. But if we did that it would be easier to add different spices to the pie part, which may tire of since it made so many servings!)
D - instapot crazy chicken with frozen chicken breasts, salsa, hot sauce, orange marmalade, cumin served with rice and salad. Well received. "Best chicken I've had in a long time." "I always like sauce with rice." "Lots of flavor."

Test block for the block exchange.

Snapshot:

Alex working on making legs for his standing desk. It will be beautiful when done.

Bernie finished up evaluating games for FIRST Game Jam.

I went thru the inspection report and almost finalized the questions for the owner - thought I was done but when I double checked saw somethings I had missed. When I submitted I put that these were current questions and list of remediations. The RE people said to wait on the remediation list so that's okay.

It was a busy day for each of us.

Friday, Dec 4 2020

T - hot chocolate and oreo ice cream

Saturday, Dec 5 2020

L -

D -

Son making standing desk legs.

Working to correct the corners, folded the fabric to correct the height, made a template to indicate where the corners should be (Covered up the lighter denim originally used and removed the button ornaments)

Writing letters to encourage people to vote

Sunday, Dec 6 2020

Monday, Dec 7 2020

Walk with Buffy

Tuesday, Dec 8 2020
L - Made French Dip Sandwiches in the instant pot. First, seared about 3 lbs of chuck in a little oil. As I turned it added salt and pepper. Removed the meat to a plate. Added some red wine and used a spoon to deglaze the pan. Put in an onion cut into 3 thick slices, and a few 'baby' carrots, then replaced the meat. Added a packet of onion soup mix and about 2 T garlic better than boullion, some left over pizza sauce, a few bay leaves and added about 3 cups of water. About an inch of the meat was above the water. Pressed meat and left on a walk. The meat cooked and had about 2 hours of just being kept warm. It fell apart - very moist and lovely. We piled some on lightly buttered, toasted Costco square rolls. Wonderful. We have enough for 1 or 2 sandwiches more for each of us! Alex suggested saving the au ju to use in a soup - or would enhance beans and/or rice too.
D/T - Made choc chip cookies and hot chocolate for dinner.

Snapshot:

Bernie drove me to PT - it was a good appointment for me.

We decided that there would be too much maintenance needed for the house, so he wrote the agent to start the cancelling of offer procedure. The fence didn't align with the actual property borders, the second stories were not recorded with the county, we kept asking for information to find out how things should be maintained, and didn't get answers. The price for the home owners insurance was three times what we pay here, much more than I expected. We realized we'd be spending a ton of time interviewing workers and waiting around for them - and that would seriously take away from enjoying the place or life in general. The agent was new in RE, was having family troubles, and didn't do a good job of getting back to us. So disappointed but relieved to be almost out of that project.

Nice walk with B B A after lunch - Buffy was very energetic and walked at a great pace.

Looked at online activities for quilting - and even started building the back of the wreath pillow

A and J did separate walks more than 4 hours each after the Buffy walk.

Wednesday, Dec 9, 2020
L - salad with beef, blueberries pecans, cheddar cheese and dressing made with O V and jam! served with crackers.

Snapshot:

Walk with B in AM.

Chat with BT - nice to finally get to chat. MLS has changed so the house is available again.

Zoom meeting after lunch with Adam and Brad - good information.

Walk with A B Buffy - short one.

Then longer walk with Bernie by the grocery store and back! Great to do, We chatted a bit and listened to book or podcast for most of the time.

Thursday, Dec 10

Friday Dec 11

Christmas Lights put up!

Sat Dec 12

Sun Dec 13

Mon Dec 14

Morning walk with Buffy

Tues Dec 15

Wed Dec 16

Thu Dec 17

Fri Dec 18

Sat Dec 19
L - Lima Beans with English Muffins and the last of the potato chips
D - Alex got drive thru Mexican Food for us. B and A had burritos, J had chilaquiles - next time J will try something else.

Snapshot:

Inventoried freezer. Put stickers on items - until the end when my hands were too cold to handle things and I was thinking they would defrost.

Walked Buffy in the am

Made a freezer pie with chocolate and cheesecake pudding mix, milk, cool whip, unsweetened condensed milk, duncan Hines Cherry pie filling - put into oreo crust and then the freezer.

Session with Jil

Postcard Writing session to encourage ppl in GA to vote

Walk to mail the postcards, B met me on the way back so shared the rest of the walk

Sun Dec 20
B - J only - oatmeal with blueberries and pecans
L - Doordash Pizza

Snapshot:

Walked Buffy in the am

Made up a beef bean celery onion fennel soup - instant pot cooked. Put the freezer stickers on the cabinet so I can update the inventory.

Quilt block to possibly try instead of the wreath for the block exchange?

Mon Dec 21
L
D - beef and beans over mashed potatoes

T - Chocolate/cherry frozen pie on oreo crust

Views from the walk today!

Library next to an elf garden!

New house being built for Irish cousins!

Tue Dec 22
L
D - beef and beans with pasta sauce and pasta - twisted corn bread

Wed Dec 23
L - chicken salad over red lettuce (from Sahara)
D - beef and beans (added hoison) with broccoli on rice

Thu Dec 24

Pretty house from the nightly walk

Candy from the neighbor!

Fri Dec 25

Sat Dec 26

Photos from Irish Cousins - they were able to meet as a group/family!

They walked between the X's.

Sun Dec 27
L - Shepherd's Pie
We made Pumpkin Pie with Sour Cream Crust
D - Chicken burger with worcestershire/mayo, spinach, salad and dal soup

From our walk...

Mon Dec 28
L - Shepherd's Pie, zucchini
D - Salmon, rice, broccoli
T - Pumpkin Pie

It rained today - wrapped scarf around my head!

Nice looking table runner!

Tue Dec 29
L - Salmon, rice, zucchini, spinach
D - Lazy Enchiladas beans, rice, sour cream, guacamole, pumpkin pie

Wed Dec 30
L - pinto beans, bacon, onion, rice (not cooked enough so tossed) instead had scrambled eggs, ham, toast
D - Stuffed peppers, broccoli, salad, pear dressing