Today I made a potato salad and a broccoli salad to go with a ham steak for dinner. Sick of winter and winter foods, ready for summer. Also made Special K Bars but used plain cheap corn flakes instead of Special K cereal.

No cooking at my house today. We had leftover Duchess soup with Maple, Fig, and Walnut bread from the freezer, left from my maple baking for the Artisan Fair in December. And then we finished off the chocolate cheesecake from two days ago - except for the half that's still in the freezer.

Tonight we had a hamburger steak with caramelized onions and a baked potato.

For dinner on Tuesday night, I tried a new recipe, “One-Pot Tarragon Chicken, Mushrooms & Rice, a recipe by John Whaite that I received in an email from the PBS radio show The Splendid Table:

https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/one-pot-tarragon-chicken-mushrooms-rice

I made two changes. I didn’t have a banana shallot, or any shallot for that matter, so I used some chopped onion. I also replaced the basmati rice, which I do not have, with 1 ½ cup medium grain brown rice. I misread the amount of broth and used about 1/2 cup too much. However, we like the recipe enough that I will make it again—this time with the correct amount of broth and perhaps a bit more of the rice. My husband was unfamiliar with tarragon, and I’m never sure how he will respond to a new spice, but he liked the flavor.

Enjoy your time away Chocomouse and I love a meatloaf sandwich too!

I baked a beef pot roast today with potatoes,carrots and onions.Enough left for sandwiches.