Winding down the week...

My days have flown by, jammed with work, meetings and projects, that I have all but ignored posting this week. Since I was gently reminded by a friend that basically I was a slacker this week, here I am again. If I don't do this every day I forget what was on the table so it really needs to be on a front burner, not a back burner.

Just as I'd hoped, Monday's dinner WAS pasta with the chunky tomato sauce...it is such a flavorful mixture of onion, garlic, canned tomatoes, and fresh basil. All this was on hand, since the basil is still standing quite tall in the garden. If there's enough, I'm going to get out there and harvest the rest to make end-of-summer-into-fall pesto and freeze it.

Last night we enjoyed some of the remaining crockpot chicken from Sunday's dinner. Ken added baked sweet potatoes and a wonderful salad. That was nice. Tonight we'll likely have some BBQ we'd frozen from the church affair a couple of weeks ago. There's more than enough for a dinner, so it will probably show up in a lunch tomorrow or Friday. Small amounts of some leftovers are piling up, so this might be a good night to investigate those and dish them up as well.

So here we are, two months into this project—and still surprised at how much we have on hand to work through and eat down. I looked at the freezer contents last night, and they just aren't diminishing the way they should. There are STILL packets of vegetables, oddments of things I haven't used yet, new things like cranberries because you can never have enough and they always get harder to find around the holidays...I'm not sure why it still looks full. I think I'll investigate more of the packets over the weekend. Maybe I'll just thaw something and whatever it is - that's dinner. Hmmm...a little scary, but we can always add a salad to these mystery bits. Are you considering doing something like this too? Or are you already doing it? Have we given you some ideas? Do let me know, and I'll keep letting you know. There may be a little delay till the next post, so stay tuned.