What's on the Menu?

      Sorry to have been cranky in my W's post yesterday. I feel much less "arghh" today. I'll get through the work frustration, always do. It's not a good way to approach each day just in count down mode, so I'm going to try and cultivate a more positive work attitude. Fake It if I can't Make It, so to say. 

 Meals and food and snacks make me happy. I like reading other people's ideas and recipes. Here's how we ate the past week. There was so much food in the house plus we ate out several times, so cooking was minimal after a big Sunday meal.

• Sunday: Turkey dinner for lunch, happy hour later,  so rest of day was leftovers,  snacking, whatever
• Monday: After a sushi lunch, another sort of smorgasbord of various leftovers was supper
• Tuesday: DS and DD2 took their grandma out for lunch, so weren't that hungry. I made soup; people ate as they wanted, and they all had popcorn at movies with DH.
• Wednesday: Last of turkey gravy with chunks of turkey, with ???? I was sad that my week with kids was done so probably ate the remaining Christmas treats right down to last krumkake crumb. 
• Thursday: Last of wild rice soup, toastie dogs 
• Friday: Homemade flatbread pizza
• Saturday: We went out to eat with a free meal voucher from an error in our take out order last March, plus gift card. I have leftovers for lunch Monday. 

Here's options for this week. I'm trying to reduce a lot of the convenience stuff, and have meals fill in for lunches or a double dinner. Assume vegetables, fruit, or salad served with the main. There's a lot of comfort foods here, because it's January and I'm in need of comfort. 

• Goulash
• Sausage meatballs and au gratin potatoes
• Cottage pie 
• Turkey pot pie (pie crust- wish me luck)
• Chili
• Homemade chicken tenders with sweet potato fries
• Tuna hotdish 
• BLT sandwiches

     I wouldn't have needed groceries technically but DH and I stopped for a few basics and loss leaders. I baked homemade bread, both an Italian rustic version, and pumpkin bread. DH wants chicken wings today for the game, so I've got some marinating. I think goulash sounds good for tonight, but that could change by the time I decide to cook. 

     Funny story. I wanted to buy some Vicks Vapor rub, the wonder stuff everyone's been suggesting for everything from persistent cough and congestion, to raw and cracked skin. I thought DH was next to me as I looked up and down the aisle shelves talking out loud at what I could see, but not the right product. To my surprise when I looked up and turned my head, DH had receded in age by 20 years and grew a beard. A kind younger man laughed when I explained I obviously hadn't looked up to see my husband no longer there, and I don't normally talk to myself out loud in public. I was leaving the row when he called out "Mam, I found  it," and handed me  the box with the little jar in it. His kid looked at me like I was a loony old woman. I think DH left me in the aisle on purpose with my head down. He sure laughed at my embarrassment. Jokes on him though. I get myself in what normally would be embarrassing situations so frequently, I rarely get embarrassed anymore. 

      What's up in your kitchen?