Yay chest freezer!

Item	Sale today	Rob or I wanted	I purchased
Ground lamb	50% off	one pound	three pounds
One brand of ground turkey	50% off	two pounds max	four pounds
Store-brand frozen pretzels	on sale (%?)	two boxes	four boxes
Frozen Tater Tots	nearly 50% off	one big bag	two big bags

We have a chest freezer. :-)

I'm on break

Done so far:

0. Grocery run, prescription refill, laundry, scrub litterbox room floor.

1. Lamb/mint/onion/garlic "kebabs", which would be great if they were really formed onto sticks, but I'm lazy, so I have a dozen meatballs and four big hamburger patties. That's four, maybe five meals. I've decided that grinding everything very fine is indeed an improvement, but is in no way worth the effort expended, not even with the food processor. Next batch will be coarse again.

2. Two frittatas. Eight breakfasts. I couldn't cook last weekend, and man, have I ever missed those frittatas!

3. Bean soup is in its first boil. This time with a gen-u-wine ham hock! Those come four to a package, and before I had the new freezer there was no way I was buying something that big. Four meals.

What with the onion roast, some larb, and I forget what all else, I'm actually okay for food for the week. But I like variety and choices, and my feet are still below screaming levels of pain. To do after the dishwasher is finished: fondue (want food processor), sawdust bars (want mixing bowl), palak paneer (want skillet).

I'm in love

Fondue. Three pounds of cheese, grated. This is what a food processor was made for. I'm going to be writing my initials plus Cuisinart inside little hearts all over everywhere. This is WONDERFUL.

Cheap wine

Tonight I have learned why people will generally not buy a $3.50 bottle of wine.

I figured I'd go cheap. It was for cooking fondue; I'm not technically allowed to drink wine at all. I figured I'd take the last glass left in the bottle, after two cups of it went for cooking, and do the one-glass-of-wine experiment to see if white wine makes me feel like a truck ran over me.

Despite the fact I've been missing wine terribly, I may not finish this glass. I may, for possibly the first time in my life, throw away wine that hasn't -- by some definition, at least -- gone bad.

This stuff isn't even that good in fondue.