Friday is a somewhat unusual night for a Landfill Dinner. Usually we are porterized somewhere but the GG is heading to Ohiiio to hike for a week so we did it anyway.

My morning did not start auspiciously. I went to Meijer (for an aluminum foil lasagna pan for the GG’s upcoming trip and then the plum for an amazingly complicated list of stir-fry ingredients. I kept getting lost in the list and I needed mouse’s help finding a few of the ingredients. She doesn’t usually work on Friday but hey mom, let’s take a field trip.

On the way home from the plum, I did the most stupid thing on earth. I took the grocks out to Cygnus, put them in the back, returned the grokkery cart to the corral, FORGOT to close Cygnus’s rear gate, and drove home with the gate open, high in the air. I did not notice this situation until I started backing into the Landfill driveway and the backup cam was looking into the sky! Thankfully, it was a short slow drive. Nothing fell out and there were no cops around to notice. Jeebus.

Other than that, it was a good kind of work day. The beach urchins both worked today and I decided I needed to do most of the stir-fry prep. After Meijer and Plum I went to White Lotus Farms to get flavored goat cheese spread. First up was sorting out all of the sauce, etc. ingredients I had (and had bought).

Next, I sorted out the veggies I obtained. I had choices about those. I couldn’t find a bag of matchstick carrots but the racc is an expert about cutting those up from big carrots and he rose to the occasion.

I made the “sauce” that “marinated” (or whatever) the chicken and the Szechuan sauce. The recipe was pretty wonky about which ingredients went into which “sauce”. An editor was sorely needed but I figured it out.

Finally I chopped up veggies for the stir-fry. I left the chicken chopping and cooking to Little Cat Z, who was pretty tired from her long work week. I felt guilty about that but hopefully I helped by all the prep work I did. I had fun doing it.

The end result was okay but waaaay too salty. Too much tamari, I think. I might not ever do this recipe again. I mean there are a bazillion stir-fry recipes out there including some in my vintage Sunset cookbooks. Then again, maybe I just need to adjust the sauce. The veggies were fine.

P.S. I also made a lasagna today.

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