Kitchen and veggie progress

First some urls for recipes I am choosing:

Lamb with fava beans
Dandelion salad w/hot bacon dressing
Chick peas and chard
Brine for roast chicken

Unfortunately, the kitchen is taking longer to clean than I expected; I've done two loads in the dishwasher and have the prepped vegetables in the fridge, the TJ chicken is brining there, but I've not done any actual cooking yet.  A couple more hours tomorrow morning will do it, though, and then I can probably cook everything but the lamb in the afternoon; I plan to cut the young onions and the carrots, coat them in a little olive oil, and roast them alongside the chicken.  The spinach can be a side dish to the lamb, just steamed w/olive oil and parmesan or butter and raspberry vinegar.


Yesterday was kind of a wash as far as cooking/cleaning.  I ended up spending most of the day shopping.  I had discovered some inexpensive baled glass storage bottles at Ross on Wednesday ($7 for 3), so I decided to check out a couple other local Ross's.  They also had some amazing prices on small ceramic baking dishes, so I picked up a couple of those, too.


I failed to score at the store that was supposed to have the organic pork.  They do have organic chicken, though, and decent-looking seafood, so it wasn't a complete waste.  Then a trek to Grocery Outlet, where I got 15 tins of the yellowfin ventresca.  I put gas in the car, too, so all in all it was semi-productive but didn't get kitchen clean or food cooked.


The good news is that by tomorrow the kitchen should be clean enough that I will be able to take pictures of what I am cooking.