One disadvantage of our subscription to the NYT cooking app is that we end up cooking things we hadn’t initially planned to cook. Some of those recipes are hard to resist.
We start the week out with a good plan for meals. Last week, for example, Husband decided to make chili ala Penzeys, and I thought that the chili and a North German fischgulash would take us through all week and weekend, and we made both. Then I saw a NYT recipe for braised pork shoulder. We told each other that would have to wait until the following week. We had all the ingredients for all three dishes except two large leeks for the pork shoulder. Wouldn’t you know, I spied two large and beautiful leeks in our local grocery store on Saturday. They rarely have such lovely leeks there. Well, of course I had to buy them, and I spent yesterday making the pork shoulder, since we couldn’t let those lovely leeks get funky in the fridge. Husband justified the purchase by conceding there was pork shoulder in the freezer that just had to be used up.
This is sort of a family problem. Daughter lamented her inability to resist the urge for buying things she doesn’t need from young children at markets and booths. Saturday she ended up with earrings, a knitted hat, bracelets, and origami. She said “How do you resist buying a hat from a 7 year old boy who loves to knit?”
What are you finding hard to resist these days? What kind of excuses do you make for giving in?
Trail Baboon 
Publix premium chocolate almond ice cream.
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I can relate.
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Hard to resist watching this girl.
I’m not a big fan of AGT, so this is already a year and a half old. I’m catching up.
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Chocolate is right up there – I’d buy more of the Cadbury Christmas candy if I run into any.
Although the little grandsons have plenty of books, I did not resist buying them books for Christmas. Luckily I found them “pre-owned” because it cost more to send them than you would believe.
I did not resist buying a Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America – a parody on the Peterson guides… It’s not quite as funny as it was at first glance, more 11-year-old bathroom humor than I expected. There’s the Doofus Hummingbird, the Scarlet Teenager, Belted King-Pisser, and a lot more with the F-word and S-word. I should have looked more closely, as I can’t think now who to give it to.
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Look at the Robin.
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Yes, of course – it’s the Dumb A** Robin.
if anyone can think of someone who would enjoy this book, I’d be happy to send it – here must be someone…
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Stick it in somebody’s Little Free Library.
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I just might if I don’t come up with someone. I may take it to the Christmas gathering we’re going to – there are a couple of serious birders there who might find it at least interesting to see this sort of sick humor…
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There is no edible of any kind I have trouble resisting. I weigh 70 pounds less than 3 months before I put Sandy into care 4.5 years ago. I am not sure what happened. Having spent a lifetime fat and now suddenly uninterested in food . . . I don’t know what the change is. I used to love candies and anything fat and salt.
I am now weak and tired. I need to get a blood test for anemia after the blood loss from my prostate surgery. And I also lost the taste for red meat. So I should be eating red meat now. I will but it will not be by choice.
As for non-food cravings, leather bags and some tech gadgets and a more modern car catch my attention, but I know how impractical they all are right now.
Clyde
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It’s juvenile, but the book makes fun of the robin’s latin taxonomy: turdus migratorious.
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As always I can’t stay away from holiday themed items. I just bought Christmas tree shaped water crackers a couple of days ago. Like we don’t already have enough crackers in the house.
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Hard to resist sweets any time of year, but especially now during Christmas cookie/baking season. My rationale is usually, “I’ll ‘reward’ myself until Jan. 2 because I was so disciplined the other 11 months of the year.” My lapse usually starts at Thanksgiving when I justify having seconds of a meal that is already twice as big as a normal meal. Then I squeeze in a slice or two of apple pie to top off the day. It’s all downhill from there until the holiday season has passed.
But I will try to do more cardio exercise to burn off a few of those calories.
Chris in Owatonna
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Chocolate Chip Cookies. I have a box on my desk from the gas station. I have 2 / day.
And then sometimes it’s the salty snacks.
Justification: you know, that comes up art and theater often. As long as you can justify the choice, it’s OK.
“Why did you paint the set purple?”
“Because that’s the color I envision this character being.”
“Oh. OK”
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I have trouble going into a store like Walgreens or CVS and coming out with whatever I went in there for PLUS 3 boxes of Hot Tamales candy, because the price is 3 boxes for $5.
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thata also 30 boxes for $50
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We ordered a new stove today, even though the old one was working almostb reliably after the wire jiggling last week. We are getting a dual fuel range. I don’t like baking in a gas oven. The new stove has gas top burners and an electric oven. No excuses. Cooking is our main hobby and activity.
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Each Christmas gathering I go to, I tell myself I’ll only have one or two of the cookies/treats, and then… well, you know. My excuse is that this only lasts for the length of December, and DAMN there are some good cookies.
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aldi’s kettle chip and green grapes call out to me
i have also pulled out a fun appliance that makes an egg sandwich with english muffin and cheesein the same amount if time as my tea kettle takes to come to a boil for my morning routine.
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Yarn. I have more beautiful yarn than I will ever use in this lifetime. Every time I go to a yarn store, I leave with more beautiful yarn.
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