No, Dukey, No

First Jeter with the zucchini bread and now Duke has eaten my battery charger cord, so no new pics today. See if I can find my old camera. Duke has also eaten my dining room chair - almost half the seat is eaten as well as the wood on the chairs/table. Hopefully he will grow out of this habit soon.
Yesterday did make some grapeleaves with the leftover meat from the stuffed cabbage. Had to use lime juice instead of lemon but they were still very good. Also made tuna salad today. Col had a birthday lunch and she said it felt really good to be eating real food and not beans/lentils. My brother Michael came over last night and had the rest of the pea soup - must love him very much to give that one soup to him. Also, gave him some black bean chili, veggie burgers and some lentil soup. Matt didn't like the lentil soup made with sundried tomatoes and potatoes and brought it home from work. I'll try to make the very basic lentil soup he likes but only have 4 baby carrots left. My nephew Brandon wanted chicken parmigiana tonight and Col said we couldn't make because we didn't have the ingredients for sauce. I told her I had a can of tomatoes and she's like - what are you holding out on me!! Katy loves Chicken Parm, so we will be having that again tonight.

Day 7 - Beef stew,beans and more beans

Used up some almost rotten potatoes and made potato patties. Cooked about 3 lbs. of black beans, made veggie burgers with roasted corn and a black bean chili. Matt came over for dinner with Margo for chicken parm and eggplant parm, rigatoni (end of marinara sauce) and then Col said remember the loaves and the fishes - well Bran and his friend need dinner too! But we had plenty and still have leftover pasta and parm. Katy had a 3 month old frozen pizza for lunch and we had veggie burgers - pretty good. Just have to get used to the texture. Cooked the others longer so that they will be harder. Think we are going to have to toss the leftover ratatouille out or to the deer - don't know if they are allergic to onions like dogs. Have to make pastry dough for beef stew. Col doesn't really like beef, so this is a problem! But if we don't eat the beef - probably won't make another week. This week it will chicken enchiladas, stuffed cabbage, shepherd's pie, pasta with livornese sauce. Thankfully, it is Col's birthday on Friday and we get to go out - yes this one time. We haven't ordered in or gone out since this challenge started, not even to get a coffee!!

Day 4- Moroccan Beef Tagine/Stout beef stew

Just finished making the moroccan beef tagine - had to use roasted peppers again (thanks, Col) and used canned onion soup instead of beef broth (didn't have any). Used cinnamon because I didn't have the honey. Katy has a swim-a-thon tonight and they are having a pizza party. Glad because I don't think she will like the tagine but she surprised me last night. Also made an eggplant parmigiana from the frozen eggplant I had. Going to look for a roasted corn soup recipe - have lots of frozen corn from TJs.

Dogs are driving me crazy - tore up a whole roll of TP and spread it out over the house. I just saw that they ate my chair cover - have a 12 x 2 inch piece of material missing. I can't afford to buy new furniture but they are already destroying my new leather sectional. Dog Whisperer where are you?