{"id":689,"date":"2009-03-17T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T15:45:58","slug":"the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/03\/the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"The same?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I made a simple rice pilaf for dinner &#8211; using <a href=\"\/food\/int\/corsica\/lamb.html\">leftover lamb<\/a> and a Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2008\/11\/russian_spice_mixes_euromix.html\">spice mix<\/a> that I really like.  I also added grilled shrimp &#038; turkey kielbasa for some variety.<br \/>\nMika saw what I was cooking and said something like &#8220;but we already had that!&#8221;.  Why yes, we have had that a couple of times in the past, but it&#8217;s been several months since I last made it.  I was pretty surprised that she could remember a specific dish that I made so long ago and I was quite amused that she&#8217;s gotten to expect something new every night.  I do have dishes that I repeat like spaghetti &#038; meat sauce and chicken and dumplings (not to say boxed mac &#038; cheese), but pilaf is not one that I repeat often.  And most other dishes I make are either part of my <a href=\"\/food\/int\/\">international cooking project<\/a>, or recipes I find on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\">epicurious<\/a> or another such site to use up a leftover ingredient or to satisfy a particular craving &#8211; I seldom repeat these dishes.<br \/>\nAnyway, both Mika and Camila liked the food &#8211; or at least Mika ate the shrimp and Camila ate something.<br \/>\nTonight I&#8217;m going to serve leftover lamb (I still have quite a bit) with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2006\/02\/tjs_thai_yellow_curry_sauce.html\">Trader Joe&#8217;s Yellow Curry<\/a> sauce.  I expect the sauce will be too spicy for the kids, and they weren&#8217;t too keen on the lamb to begin with, so I&#8217;ll have to figure out something to give to them (and let&#8217;s not have it be mac &#038; cheese!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I made a simple rice pilaf for dinner &#8211; using leftover lamb and a Russian spice mix that I really like. I also added grilled shrimp &#038; turkey kielbasa for some variety. Mika saw what I was cooking and said something like &#8220;but we already had that!&#8221;. Why yes, we have had that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}