Friday Feats!

today's menu:

• leftover oatmeal for breakfast


• easy egg drop soup and ginger carrots (Nourishing Traditions, p. 95) for lunch


• burgers, mashed potatoes & gravy, and green beans for supper
  
  

After breakfast, I did some prep work. For tomorrow's breakfast, we'll have pumpkin pancakes. I got out a 2-cup bag of frozen pumpkin puree to thaw in the fridge overnight, then got to work on the batter: start with a pint of kefir-whey in an 8-cup glass measuring cup and add freshly-ground flour and water until the thick batter reaches the 8-cup mark, then set aside to soak.

With that done, I decided to strain more kefir so I'd have plenty of whey for breadmaking later this week. Then I started soaking about a pound each of red and black beans for Sunday's supper.


Then I did laundry.


No school this week - hurrah! I did get a few things accomplished. :)


And then I did more laundry.


And then we got hungry again, so I threw together some egg drop soup. This batch of ginger carrots was nice and fizzy and was a nice companion to the soup.

I dumped the bag of veggie scraps I've been saving into a big pot with a touch of apple cider vinegar and 4 qts of filtered water to soak while I did more laundry. Then I set the burner on low and did more laundry and menu-planning for the next two weeks.

Then I thought about how I could really use some new shoes. :)

Then I sighed. siiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

And then I prepped supper. The sun finally peeked out, so we grabbed a quick walk - 34 degrees and brisk north wind...and then I did more laundry and made supper. I saved a quart of potato water for breadmaking later this week.

And now I've got a mound of laundry to fold...