Bearshorty's musings

I tried hard to have a nice relaxing weekend to gather energy for the upcoming grading week. I think it went well.

I read a lot (about a third of the 3rd Galbraith book and 2 cantos of Paradise), cooked, and Bear and I watched The Martian over the last two days. I also caught up on Grimm and Supergirl.

On Friday evening I made potato dumplings for dinner and chicken. It was the first time I made dumplings of any kind, other than buy them frozen in the store and just boiling. So it was an experiment. Not entirely perfect yet but not bad for the first try. I did buy wonton wrappers in the Asian supermarket, so it wasn't exactly from scratch, but I made potato and onion filling and pinched all the wrappers properly and boiled that. It is a bit tedious to do but very tasty. Even Tanya ate one, which is a win. I still need to figure out how to get them to dry and not be too sticky before they go in the water and how to keep them from sticking overnight in the fridge. Probably some oil.

This morning I made myself a mushroom, onion and cheese omelette with two eggs. Nyum nyum. So tasty. I don't make it often so it was a treat to myself.

And tonight I made butternut squash soup. I really hate pealing it; there must be an easier way. Other than that, came out well. And I made zucchini for tomorrow. I got all ingredients for baked ziti too but I will make it tomorrow since I wanted us to finish all the leftovers first.

( The Martian )