Lots of rain for the last two days and into tomorrow as Ophelia drowns us rather than gets drowned.
But other than the water, not too bad. I decided to just cook off the NYT Cooking app today with what I had on hand.
So I made a Croque Monsieur casserole:
This was pretty good. I think another 5 minutes? might have cooked the bottom a bit more, but it’s a problem with any custard that goes down over bread or some other baked carb.
We had eight bananas going soft, a result of too-big-an-order in a previous week. This spells banana bread. In this case, with chocolate chips. It was a bigger batch than the 9-inch loaf pan version in the app, so I decided to use a different pan concept. I think it didn’t dry out too much? Banana bread is a pain in the ass as far as that goes.
Then we had some salmon that needed to used up. Normally I just dry-fry it or roast it on insanely high heat quickly, but tonight I decided to use the NYT App recipe for salmon-corn cakes and put them in rolls, kind of like a salmon burger. I hauled out some pear pickles that I liked and that no one else did so I could pretend to have virtuously supplied everyone’s plate with something more than just the salmon.
And I made extremely lazy and careless “potato skins” to further the alibi of “more than just the salmon in a bun”.
On a weekend when everything just kind of soggy and windy, I suppose I ought to really say “this is when we do creature comforts” (like, say, meat pies”) but instead I went with “this is what you’re trapped inside with, and is going to get eaten (or not).”