The first dinner prepared at my new apartment is current cooking. This may not come as surprise because it will be my third night sleeping here, but I have not actually gone grocery shopping yet! I also did not move much of any food from my old place, not that there was a meals worth of food left at the old place when I moved. So where did this dinner come from? Mostly from my new, wonderful downstairs neighbor Karen. She was out on a farm somewhere (near here, western Mass. most likely, but I didn’t catch where) for the weekend. She brought back 3 ears of fresh corn, a bag full of pear shaped tomatoes, a bag of fresh garlic (still on the stem) and an small container of some sort of baby, sweet tomatoes. I’d never even seen either of these types of tomatoes before.
The baby, sweet tomatoes were a great snack during board gaming, which also had its inaugural run at the new place. The corn was an easy first step for dinner. I did move 1 serving worth of pasta, but I checked and we have no sauce for it. But there are 3 large cans of tomato paste, and a bit of olive oil to combine with some fresh garlic and other random spices we moved for my first ever attempt at from scratch (well sort of) tomato sauce. It is an experiment currently bubbling in progress on the stove. I hope it turns out well, or dinner might not be so good tonight.
I haven’t posted much since moving into the new place. I am still unpacking. It will be a long process. I have most of my stuff in my room unpacked at this point, but there is still a bunch of the land lord’s stuff (which is everywhere and a longish story for another time) to pack up into boxes and stash away. I’m about 75% done with stashing away that stuff from my room. The rest of the house is not so far along. When rooms get to a presentable state I’ll start to post pictures of them. Time for dinner.
Glad the move is going well and that eating has again become a priority. I look forward to the upcoming pictures of the new place.