Started off the month with an easy dinner - pasta and marinara (roasted summer squash for me), chicken sausage, and steamed broccoli with leftover homemade sauce from the bibim bap we had earlier this week. But while that was cooking I spent about an hour chopping up vegetables for the next few days. Also roasted some carrots, which are a favorite snack of mine, warm or cold.

DH had to bring snacks to a meeting last night. He took a bag of clementines, some oat-cranberry-chocolate chip cookies I made, and this beautiful pastry ring that I baked yesterday, which was apparently greatly appreciated. The entire recipe had only 1/4c sugar. The filling was dried figs soaked in warm water and rum and a little butter. The dough was a standard sweet cardamom recipe.


Tonight DD has a dinner-hour activity so she'll have leftovers from last night as an early dinner after school, and a snack after her activity, and I'll have a big salad before we leave.