Menus and Algebra

Damian is not traveling next week before we head to CO for Thanksgiving! I'm so excited. This means I have Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday dinners to make - yipee! As we know, when he's not here, I tend to do stupid things like eat dates for dinner. I need some motivation.

I have decided that I need to not just focus on just the entree (as is my tendency), so here are my menus for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday:

Friday dinner: Japanese Beef Stew with rice
Saturday dinner: Broiled Duck Breast with Orange Chipotle Sauce, Garlicky Broccoli Rabe
Sunday dinner: Sole with Ginger Sake Sauce, Asian Pear and Avocado Salad, Rice

I'm also going to make Spiced Pear Muffins to see how those taste. Last night I made Sausage & Egg Casserole with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Mozzarella (using chicken sausage for Damian). That was delicious. I was surprised at how much I liked it since I'm not a big fan of sausage in general, however, I'm now a big fan of sun-dried tomatoes. I made a Chicken with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce the other night and that was a great recipe, too.

I just spent 20 minutes trying to remember back to algebra how to solve this (simple) equation. I had to look up algebra sites to do it. I forgot about cross multiplication - doh! They also have calculators online - I wonder if kids find all sorts of ways to cheat with the Internet? Oh well, I found the cross multiplication reminder and can now figure out exactly what speed I'll have to set the treadmill at to do 3 miles in 30 minutes when I'm walking for 4 minutes of that. I'm off to test my physical running abilities, as well as my math. This took way too much brain power. I think I should take a refresher in algebra.