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Ten days!
By Kristen | September 29, 2007
Is that the longest I’ve ever gone without a post? I think it may be.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been completely absorbed in first getting my textbooks (a tip: never ever buy from Barnes & Noble’s website) and then catching up with my studies. The language department recommends spending two hours studying for each hour spent in class; so, a four-hour class means eight hours of homework, flashcards, and generally being une nerde à la Hermione Granger. All of which hasn’t left me a lot of time to cook anything worth mentioning — or some days, anything at all.
Compounding this problem was the fact I had become so dependent on the 101 Simple Meals list, I was out of the habit of doing any sort of meal and/or grocery planning. I went to put in a (much overdue) FreshDirect order and… I was a little baffled. What do we need? What should I buy? What am I going to cook anyway?
Eventually, slowly, I pieced together a list of what to make for dinner and a list of what we needed to buy, including ingredients for something I made last year (and am dying to make again): Limburgse stoofpot van lamsvlees. It wasn’t easy, but I did resist the urge to pull out my tattered 101 Simple Meals list.
Now, as for the next in the Green is Gezellig series, I’m taking suggestions as to what to write about next — anyone?
Topics: Green is Gezellig, Gezellig Groceries, Life in Maison Gezellig, Nederlands Dat! |
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September 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am