a week of meals no. 68
meal plan for the third week of Feb. 2025
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Hello lovely friends, welcome to another Saturday morning and the beginning of the weekend. This week felt so long! Did it for you, too? I think for me it was a combination of the weather (mostly wind and rain), an increased number of activities due to the beginning of spring sports season, the stressful nature of the news, and the kids being outside less due to the weather. Plus all the Valentine’s leadup (we made 44 homemade Valentine’s in our household). I’m very much looking forward to Sunday, which is my rest day: a day where I try my best to not schedule a single thing besides staying at home, cooking, reading, recuperating, and getting ready for the week ahead. Every other day has a rapidity to it that’s not really in my control, but Sunday is! Even though I’m complaining a bit here, there were, in fact, lots of good things this week. Spring blooms, rainy walks, endless reading together, cozy nights watching a show with stovetop popcorn to munch, very good lunch salads, seed sorting, and a really lovely long hike just with Vincent (my 12 year old).
This week, I’ve been reading Nightbitch, a novel by Rachel Yoder about the relentless mundanity of early motherhood, stay at home mothers, and….how they shapeshift into dogs at night. Ha. It’s honestly very weird and a little gross, sort of reminds me of Otessa Moshfegh, who I’m not that into. It had been on my TBR for a while, but a mom in our nursery school mums chat brought it up, so I finally picked it up at the library. I’m about halfway through so far—it has really excellent parts, and then parts where it falls flat/feels a bit cringey. I can’t put it down yet, though, and that’s saying something! I’m also still finishing up the Natalia Ginzburg essays, just a few left to go.
For dinners this week, we’ve got several soups, a kale pesto pasta, roasted cauliflower tacos with a fresh citrus salsa, chickpeas, pizza, waffles and blood orange cake! What good things. Now’s the time when we well and truly subsist on all manners of citrus, frozen berries, and long storage apples for our fruits. I love citrus, so I can’t complain, but truthfully I am also dreaming of strawberries and rhubarb although they are quite a ways off yet. Soon enough!
