Meat Loaf Lunch

Yesterday was a Meat Loaf lunch for the boy.  Didn't get to post it as I had a million things to do and was too tired to think of what to write about it.  Actually I'm still tired and haven't figured out what to write about it.  So instead, I will write about next week since there will be no lunch boxes all of next week.

The boy is going away for the week, out of the country and an ocean (maybe 2?  I suck at geography too) for the very first time without either parent.  And I'm fiddling with my fingers and making a hundred lists in my head of what could possibly go wrong with this trip.  I think this is where my fatigue is coming from.  I should totally stop.  The boy is taller than I am and can very well figure out a crook from a good bloke.  I should relax, probably have a drink with my girlfriends and let him have fun without me.  Yes. He is after all turning 14 this year.  I'm sure he will learn a lot of things both on an academic and personal level.

Relax Mama...relax.  Inhale...exhale...

Yesterday's lunch box:  Homemade Meat Loaf, New Potatoes and Gravy

See you week after next.

Comme Ci, Comme Ça

Comme Ci, Comme Ça--I'm feeling kinda like this these days.  Just so-so.  Not overly happy nor overly sad.  Not so bad considering I could be bipolar.  Or just plain hormonal.  Either way, I'm somewhere in the area of a peaceful middle.  However, I tend to be most creative when I'm at either poles of sadness or madness.  So today's post is so predictable of me, if you know me well enough.  

It's easy, comfort food that I can just pop in the oven while I putter around the house.  I roast my chicken this way, 10 minutes uncovered, 30 minutes wrapped in parchment or foil and then another 10 minutes open.    I do it in that ratio too for bigger birds.  Same concept, longer cooking time.  And voila--a golden bird with crisp skin, not overcooked, with juices still intact. 

This will be my last post for the week since it turns out the boy is half-day, Fridays.  So no lunchbox on Fridays.

Today's lunchbox consists of: Poulet a l'estragon (Roasted Chicken scented with Tarragon), Pan Drippings and Gratin Dauphinois.  Recipes were from "Secret of the Great French Restaurants" by Louissette Bertholle (Julia Child's co-author in Mastering The Art of French Cooking--not the absentee one) published in 1973."  Bon Appetit!  

  

À Bientôt, mes amis.  :-)