In which Monday is upon us yet again or a recounting of the weekends cookery.

Here we are again at Monday.   Sometimes, it seems like Monday comes more than it's fair share.   I've tried to take this up with Monday, but it never listens.    I argue passionately that surely we must have skipped from Saturday to Monday and surely we are due our Sunday but to no avail.  It just smirks at me as if to tell me "Ha! I bested Sunday in a poker match and took it's place this week but it's already taken it's holiday so you'll never get it back".  As I said Monday never listens. 

So this morning was very extra Mondayish  and with Monday being extra pleased at itself just made it worse.   I didn't feel like getting up to the alarm and Memblers was markedly less enthusiastic then I.   But all the same he was seen off to his day at work with his kisses and a ham salad sandwich for breakfast and here I am sharing my dismay at Monday's bad behavior. 

So I shall recount the food we made over the weekend because it was very lovely.   First was a lasagna.  That was Friday night.  Cheesy, warm, bubbly with all it's lovely rich flavors of the pasta sauce, ricotta cheese and mozzarella and provolone all layered together with it's lasagna noodles.   We had on the side a Greek salad, with lettuce tomato, cucumber, feta cheese and black olives and a dressing made of balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and oregano.   To compliment those dishes I made a favorite bread recipe for crusty french bread, and trying to be healthier I made with whole wheat flour swapped out for half the white flour.  It was hearty and delicious. It was quite the delicious meal. 

Then, on what I had originally thought was Sunday but looking back now I'm quite sure it must have been Saturday, we made our favorite meal, General Tso's Chicken.    If you want to make General Tso's chicken as amazing as ours, this is the link to follow.   It is a video by a fantastic chef named Kai and he will tell you exactly how to make a dish that is the equal of any offering of any restaurant.  We love Kai at The Frog Pond :-)   We made a triple batch, three pounds of chicken covered in the lovely sweet and savory sauce.   Now, Memblers always adds in some chili paste, but I think he's going to be banned from adding the chili paste in the future for while it was very good, my lips and face were tingling by the time I finished my portion.  We had Calrose rice on the side, lovely sticky short grain rice.    It was sublime.  

Now I must say the only BAD thing about making food this amazing is it ruins one for eating out.    A small price to pay I know but sometimes one does want to eat out without thinking "We could make this dish better and chaper at home".  Of course my brain smarts back "sure you could, but then you'd have to make it and even worse you'd have to clean up from making it so shut up and enjoy your food".  

But this Monday we are still enjoying the fruits of our weekend labors and they are delicious!

Thanks for reading and Bright Blessings, and Good Eatings to you all.