I spent the majority of yesterday, planning my menu for the week. It has been a few weeks since I had made a solid menu and shopping list, instead just picking up things as I thought of them. I have many vegetables from Athens Locally Grown that were aging away in my fridge. In my usual fashion I became obsessed with the organization software rather that the organization itself. Merlin Mann‘s number one no-no. Being a recent Apple convert, I downloaded the trial version of MacGourmet. It seems to do everything that I would want my cookbook/shopping list app to do. The best feature by far is it’s ability to import recipes directly from several major cooking websites, such as Epicurious, Pop-Up Central FoodNetwork, MyRecipes, and Vegetarian Times. You do have to clean up the ingredients a little, i.e. for large potato, it puts the word large with the ingredient rather than in the unit column. This makes 2 large potatoes on the shopping list a different item than 3 small potatoes. Since recipes are written with only a semi-logical set of rules, I can forgive the program’s inability to completely discern the difference. Forget Captcha, you want to know if a user is a bot? Make them tell you where in the store to find 1 cup of Italian-style diced tomatoes.
The result of all my menu planning would be my making Salsa Verde for Huevos Ahogados En Salsa Verde or “Drowned Eggs” to have for this morning’s breakfast. I had purchased tomatilloes from Athens Locally Grown for this very purpose. I have made this recipe once before and it is most delicious; however,
the number of tomatillos I had only yielded a cup or two of salsa. Obviously, no egg would drown in this amount. I think I will serve the salsa with our eggs anyway, since I also made mexican pot beans last night and I think the combo will be good. The pot beans are made with pintos from Rancho Gordo. As a matter of fact I need to type faster, because I am getting really hungry.
Last but not least, our beloved Bulldogs finally had a decided victory. Yeah, yeah it was against Vanderbilt, but it was a win and hopefully a shot in the arm
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