Meal Planning. Oi Vey.

I got just about nothing done yesterday.
I put some cash onto my credit card, and loaded the dishwasher.
Other than that, I did nothing. I did not leave the house, I did not deposite money in my bank account, I did not get milk or juice, I just sat at my computer and wrote pr0n. Fanfic slashy orgy-tastic pr0n that needs a lot of work.
I tried to make it funny.
It didn't really work.

I've got this book called 'Once Upon a Dyke' that is lesbian-erotic retellings of four fairy tales. The first one, "La Belle Rose" is beautiful. :-) The second one, "A Butch in Fairy Tale Land" is... dumb. (I haven't read the other two yet). Anyway, part of why the second one is dumb is that there is, in fact, an orgy (apparently femmes can't make eachother come (much). Hah! Kill the writer...). This has led me to believe that there is something inherently funny about multiple people having sex with each other at the same time.

I decided to try my hand at a half-serious (sort of) challenge put forth on Cheesemongers to pair my favouritest character with 'everything that moves' all at once.
There was a kitchen sink involved, but I think I may cut that sequence out and make the whole thing a lot more serious[1].

Anyway. Today I have work (conveniently near a bank, so I can deposite a heap of cash -- although that may wait until tomorrow so that I can deposite my tenant's rent as well). I will find out how last week went (hahaha), and stuff like that there. So I need to start getting ready.

Paul's new schedule starts next week, so he will be home for dinner every night after that (usually).
This is good because I get to see him regularly and our weekend evenings will no-longer be the only nights we can do stuff together.
Which is nice. :-)
This is, however, also something I'll need to get used to -- normally for dinner I will eat something random in the fridge, or else I will bake some sausage or fish in the oven and have that. 'Dinner' hasn't been something that I've put much thought into more than, say, two nights a week.
So I need to start coming up with meal ideas that are (A) easy, (B) fast, and (C) dirt cheap. and they can't all be squash soup.
Now, I have a crock pot.
So I can do stuff like hearty soup or wet potroast (by which I mean apple-cider chicken, potatoes and squash, all done in the same pot), just by putting them together in the morning and having them on low-cooking-heat all day.
But I would like to have a few more options.

Keeping in mind:
Paul can reliably digest chicken and turkey.
Pulses (including tofu), eggs and dairy, and anything with hooves, are not so reliable.
Also, he doesn't like fish. (to-which I am seriously inclined to say 'suck it up, buttercup. Why don't you do the cooking, since you're so picky?)

So... I figure I can do a few different pasta dishes... Like a pasta primavera using frozen veggies and linguini and tossing it all in olive oil and sprinkling romano-goat-cheese (like parmejan, only easier to digest due to not containing any naturally-occuring-msg) over top of it. Or maybe some sort of macaroni and cheese using skim-milk cheddar for the sauce, rather than normal cheese (as I think it's the fat in cheese that makes it so tricky).

Pulses that have been cooked to hell and purreed are okay. So I can continue to do purreed soups with amaranth and lentils in them, and they should be okay.

Any other ideas you might have would be appreciated. :-)








[1] By which I mean more details and sensations and fewer silly quips and name-dropping. :-) I like writing erotic stuff. It's fun, and you get to go inside someone's actual body. :-) Whee!