Weekly Round Up: Time Delay

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week I took a "time delay" approach to cooking dinner.

Eats

If you're new here==>I kinda/sorta gave up on cooking weeknight dinners a while ago for the combo reasons of the rest of the house having evening activities that they need to get to in a hurry and mismatched tastes in food.   The downside of this arrangement is that I can't really cook anything on weeknights because the rest of the family is in a mad rush of cooking their no fuss staples/reheating leftovers.

For two nights this week I tried a "time delay" for dinner.  I hung out with the fam while they ate (the thing that I really want out of the dinner meal) while I prepped food.  Then once we got back from walking the dog I did the cooking while they rushed out the door to their nighttime activities.  The first night that I tried it I made our old standard salmon bowls (rice, Costco frozen stir fry veggies, air fried salmon, avocado, and the dressing from here...everyone says that they like it when we have it and yet no one ever seems to want it...I mean not saying I want salmon all the time but I like it more frequently than once every six months)  It worked well to cook rice and thaw the salmon while they were eating, and then cook it after we got back.

My second solo cooking effort falls under the category of "good food that looks way better IRL than on the internet".   Let me introduce you to From My Bowl's Chickpea Curry Casserole and please please please click the link and look at her pictures instead of mine.  Whatcha do to make this is to grab a casserole pan and dump a bunch of veggies, chickpeas, rice, and a coconut curry sauce in to it and then bake it rice is cooked.  After it's done just top it with slivered almonds and eat. 

The only thing that went wrong is that it took way longer than advertised to cook.  The recipe says 45 minutes but mine went well over an hour before the rice was done.  Some of this is because I used frozen cauliflower, but even so I feel like that shouldn't have slowed things down so much.  But no worries, I wasn't going anywhere and it was well worth the wait.  I packed up the leftovers into the freezer so the next time I have it I'm only looking at a few minutes to get it on the table.

Workouts

Caroline Girvan's Advent series is a winner.  The only thing is that after a few weeks of me complaining that 40 minute workouts felt so long, I quickly found that 20 minute workouts feel too short.  Some people are just never satisfied!

The solution was easy - by the 2nd day I'd started doubling up on the workouts.  It's probably not ideal for muscle splits but it feels great and I've got my gym mojo back.

In other fitness news, I found out why a burpee is called a burpee this week.  Who knew?

Watching

Our second win in a row in the family movie watching department!  Normally the boys would rather do anything else besides watch a movie with us, but hubs convinced them to at least try what he described as "a movie by the Zoolander guy.  It's a spoof of Apocalypse Now."

Tropic Thunder was a runaway hit!

Reading

My final review of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone is exactly what I said last week.  Yes it picked up a bit in the second half, no I didn't hate it, and yes it's fading in my memory quickly.  On to the next book!

That's all she wrote!  See ya next week.