I have not made a hot meal from scratch in two weeks (excluding the Super Bowl Sunday buffet).
I've not bought fast food or utilized store-bought frozen dinners. I've only utilized cereal, ham sandwiches, PB&J sandwiches for one or two meals (excluding breakfast).
What I have been doing is totally depleting my freezer reserves of made-ahead meals and eating Super Bowl leftovers. Enchiladas, Lasagna, Tortellini and Pot stickers .... And my god, so happy I've made those make-ahead-meals.
Tonight was Pot Stickers, tomorrow I think I'm actually going to have to cook something. Which means taking that something out of the freezer tonight. Which means I need to remember that before falling asleep. Which I haven't done because I haven't succeeded in staying up past 9 or 10 all this week. Maybe the espresso I had at 5:30 will help me. Maybe.
While enjoying my pot stickers tonight, I was dipping them in Soy Sauce. I bought the Kikkoman naturally brewed stuff---WOW! It's strong. The first two dips nearly crossed my eyes. Of course, me being the dork I am, instead of wasting the soy sauce that I cannot possibly use to dip because it overshadows the flavor of the pot stickers, (note the long run-on sentence, friends, it's a thing of beauty) I got my funnel and poured it back into the bottle.
It actually worked. Then, I cut the soy sauce I left in my dish with orange juice. I just remembered I was also going to put scallions in my dipping sauce. Oh well, lunch tomorrow I guess.
Okay I'm running out of steam ... and I have work to do ....
In short,
1. When you cook something yummy, make more than you need and freeze some (before you completely cook it, when possible).
2. Orange Juice and Soy Sauce is better dipping sauce (even better if you had scallions in it) than straight Kikkoman Soy Sauce
3. Don't listen to your English teacher. Run On sentences are awesome.
