In case you were wondering, the light posting this week has been a direct result of my spending the past four days falling back on my repertoire of basic dishes - all of which I've already covered here in one form or another in the past year.

That's the nice thing about building up a nice assortment of standbys. If your pantry is set up and your CSA cooperates, you can spend the better part of a week essentially cooking in your sleep. Which is awesome when you find yourself damn near asleep at dinnertime for most of a week.

Saturday we actually took shameful advantage of Burger Jones' online ordering and curbside pickup. I'm normally not a fan of that kind of service, but sometimes you really do want a certain level or type of food in a takeout format, and it's worth dealing with them bobbling the order a bit. Which they did, but they fixed it.

Sunday was a slight variation on the misosoba soup from the Japanese meal I posted about last week. The vegetables were a bit different, and instead of having yakitori, I made teriyaki chicken chunks and put them right in the soup, but for all practical intents and purposes, it was the same thing.

Monday was a big-ass pot of calo verde for the Monday gaming crowd - I had collards and kale from the CSA, chicken andouille from the last time I made the soup, and it's always a crowd-pleaser.

Tuesday was sandwiches, basic boiled potatoes with butter and Sunny Paris (a delicious Penzey's blend that is shamefully expensive but worth it), boiled CSA corn, and a basic salad.

Last night was skirt-steak tacos, because the last time I was at Costco I restocked on inside skirts and wild sockeye salmon, I had two more ears of CSA corn to make a basic corn salsa out of, and as we all know too well by now, I love me some tacos.

And tonight will probably be something super-basic with some of that salmon, because that CSA pickup of 5:30pm really throws a wrench into my dinnertime.