Yesterday my wife picked up a chicken smoked in oak and some hatch chile cornbread and we had it for dinner, and I had some more for lunch today. The chicken is really good, tons of pepper on it, and a nice oak smokiness.
I had the urge to make spam fried rice for dinner tonight. So I made rice last night, and I plan to go chop veggies for it in about an hour or so.
That’s always my intent when I get Chinese takeout. I usually anticipate around three or four meals out of each order, but then my piggishness gets the better of me and it’s often only two meals! In any case, most Chinese dishes are wonderfully amenable to microwave reheating. The new containers the local Chinese takeout uses are both microwave safe and biodegradable. My usual choices are Singapore noodle (naturally!) and pork lo mein, and sometimes chicken wings and house fried rice with chicken, pork, and shrimp.
Tonight will be lasagna. Not homemade, but not mass-market frozen stuff, either. A great meat lasagna store-made by a fine Italian supermarket. With Greek salad on the side. I believe a Caesar salad would be more traditional, but I’m getting partial to Greek salads because of ingredients like red onions, cherry tomatoes, black olives, and the lovely feta dressing.
Change of plan. I foolishly put the freshly made lasagna in the freezer, on the principle that lasagna freezes well. But the shepherd’s pie has a best-by date just three days away. 
So tonight will be shepherd’s pie, with swirls of piped mashed potatoes on top. Lasagna tomorrow. But because the pie is so small it will be preceded by mushroom risotto balls – balls of fried short-grain Arborio rice risotto with shiitake mushroom. After some deliberation I think garlic pizza sauce would be a fine dipping sauce for them. With Sister’s Run Australian Cabernet. But I can’t think of any reasonable way of picking them up for dipping and consumption. Just my bare paws? Maybe our Asian friends have devised a solution: chopsticks!
They put three fortune cookies in the bag, so I figure they figured that’s how many meals it was. Or maybe they just give you one fortune cookie for each item you order.
Anyway, tonight I prepared pizza on the grill. As I’ve said before, that’s about the closest you can get to a wood fired pizza oven at home. The charring is a feature, not a bug (ok, that one on the bottom is a bit too charred on the left side. I didn’t eat that part). I used Trader Joe’s pizza dough, red sauce, fresh mozzarella (also Trader Joe’s), some Italian sausage I found in the back of my freezer, the rest of a tomato from the farmers market last weekend, and basil from the plant growing in a pot on my patio.
You’ve probably already digested them by now, but … toothpicks?
Breakfast for dinner: corned beef hash (housemade corned beef) topped with 2 fried eggs. Enough left over for a couple lunches.
Chopsticks worked! They’re too fragile for toothpicks. 
Jerked chicken breasts from the grill served with sautéed zucchini and tzatziki to cool our palates.
Grilled peaches for dessert. Pinot Grigio to drink.
A summer cookout with a local Democratic club: had a hamburger with ketchup and mustard, a hot dog likewise, some pickles and a little homemade quinoa. For afters, a mint chocolate fudge bar, half a donut and some fresh fruit.
Went grocery shopping today and for some reason felt inclined to stock up on my favourite sandwiches, because they make great ones. So a couple of tuna salad on white, one assorted sub, and one turkey sub. Looks like I’ll be (happily!) living on sandwiches today and for lunch tomorrow with leftovers for lunch the next day.
Tomorrow night, Haddock & Hops (beer-battered frozen haddock) and fries, in imitation of traditional English fish & chips, sprinkled with malt vinegar and with chipotle tartar sauce on the side. This time to be served with fresh homestyle coleslaw with yogurt, from the deli.
Fish sticks, cucumber salad, water. Desert- a lemon bundtlet.
Lemons grow in the desert? 
Lazy dinner: turned on the oven and baked a chicken Kiev, and a cottage pie.
There’s both coffee & strawberry ice cream in the freezer for later.
Ehh, I felt snack-y around 8PM, so I grabbed a tiny pack of cool ranch Doritos when I was at the convenience store. Your tales of chicken Kiev, fish and chips, and fish sticks have me hungry again. I’m gonna go upstairs and make a ham sandwich. Maybe I’ll put some cheese on it.
lol…
I did the exact same thing earlier this evening!
Great minds think alike …
Hehehe, so a toasted ham sandwich with a slice of melted Kraft’s finest processed cheese food and Duke’s mayo counts as chicken Kiev?
I’m no epicurean, but I’ll allow it!
Tonight was my go-to when I want something relatively low effort: Spaghetti, some of the frozen meatballs the local butcher makes, and a jar of Rao’s tomato basil sauce.
Ceviche. Grill peaches. Vodka.
A Caesar side salad, a big cheeseburger with bacon and BBQ sauce, french fries with ketchup, and a glass of ice water and an IPA. For afters, cheesecake (too heavy; not creamy enough) with blueberry coulis, and a cup of decaf.