This week was the first hard week of the school year for us. This week was also the first recipe from Extending the Table that was a bit of a dud. It wasn't necessarily a bad week, or even recipe, but it was the first where germs and fatigue and changes all caught up with the fam, and the flavors of the food didn't sit well.
Ian had a yucky, croupy sort of cough-cold thing happening, so I stayed home with him early in the week. The next day daycare called to cancel due to a stomach virus, which was good because Suki started throwing up shortly there after, so John stayed home. Ian still hasn't fully recovered into the weekend, and little Suki has been generally out-of-sorts.
Of course, me staying home with a sick kid, is much different than John doing so. I napped along with Ian, but managed to clean the kitchen and run a quick errand. John did several loads of laundry, baked bread, changed the furnace filter, cleaned all the bathrooms, mopped the floors (twice, because he wasn't happy with the first go at it), dropped Ian at school, picked him up, took him back for a special school event, all between cleaning up bouts of vomit. Yeesh!
This week we were all exhausted, too. One or both of the boys have regularly been asking to go to bed by 6:30. Thursday was a record though with Ian asking for bed at 6:15. Sometimes, they are too tired to eat, so we've changed our evening routine for them. Dinner is much earlier now, which isn't so bad, but the hour after dinner gets a little rough. Plus the boys have just in general been clingy, whiny, and picky all week.
Thursday was my new recipe night. I made Abobong Manok, chicken adobo, from the Philippines. It was a bit of a bummer though, and also marked the first recipe I tried to alter. The recipe called for the chicken to simmer in a sauce with a base of vinegar and soy sauce, which was just too sour and salty from the start. It was also looking bland, so I tossed in some veggies to make it more of a stir fry. Unfortunately, the veggies basically pickled in the vinegar. I will say that is was edible, but no one wanted seconds or left overs.
So we're making a new start of this Saturday, with twelve plus hours of sleep for the boys and mom. And there has been a culinary delight! This week's color at Ian's school was green, so today I made key lime pie. And it turned our beautiful and very, very edible.
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You've just helped me understand a bit of Scottish/British culture: "the children's tea" which refers to the evening meal -- usually something simple like fish fingers and peas, or beans on toast with a side of chips (French fries) -- served to the kids around 5 p.m. Then the adults in the family eat later, like at 7 or 8 p.m. Apart from my not understanding why any meal is called "tea," I didn't know what to make of adults (usually Moms or Nans -- grandmothers) saying they had to hurry home to prepare the children's tea. I get it now! -- from Lindsay in Glasgow
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