Lunch For One

Looks fantastic, doesn't it?

Diced chicken with some applesauce.  Strawberry yogurt.  Chopped pears.

That is the most exciting lunch I've made in a long time.

If you don't see it, try this - imagine that for months all your meals consisted of was liquid and mashed fruits and vegetables with no seasonings at all.  Yuck.

I've said it before, but what would it be like to be able to remember your first bite of chicken or watermelon, or crunchy cheerio?  Abby is finally old enough to eat some of what we're eating, and it's really an awesome thing.  Not only is it easier, quicker and just plain cool to be able to give her some of what we're having, but she gets so excited to have something that's not pureed to a pulp.  Keep in mind, no teeth yet*, so the stuff has to be pretty much mashable, but it's neat to see her scooting around the kitchen in her walky-thing grabbing soggy cherrios and chomping them up.

Also, on the homefront, we finally got a new range.  Also very exciting.  High tech convection oven?  Nope.  Crazy powerful jet-engine 30,000 BTU burner?  Nope.  Fancy knobs?  Nope.  Actually, we're just excited that it starts when we ask it to and doesn't threaten to bring down our house.  The previous tenant (inherited from the previous owners) had a proclivity towards laziness and risky behavior.  Such as:

1) It required an additional flame (supplied by the operator) to start the burners.
2) When we moved in, the oven light was out.  I replaced it, turned it on, and it promptly exploded.
3) The oven would take somwhere between several and 20 minutes to start.  When it finally decided to go, you would hear a nice big WHOMP from inside, as the gas ignited and the oven did its best impression of an FAE.

I had a post planned for a noodle salad thing with peanut dressing planned (yes, I realize that peanut dressing is a bit played at this point**, but that doesn't make it not good) - soba noodles, shredded lettuce and other veggies, slivered chicken and the peanut/soy dressing.  First, I forgot to take a picture.  Second, Molly didn't like it and my enthusiasm took a big hit. Finally, another Andrew, a food writer for the Buffalo News, had a very similar recipe in Sunday's paper.  Oh well...maybe some other time.

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* The first sign of a tooth breaking through appeared this very morning!
** Can you get it at Applebee's?  Probably...

Comments

[caren]

congrats on the new stove/oven! i know how excited i get when i buy new pencils... i can't imagine the excitement of a new stove! here is to hoping that abby becomes the fabulous eater that molly is! :) maybe you can try out that new stove and make me some of that beer/cheese/bread stuff mmm!!!

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