Happy new year
January 2, 2025 7:51 PM
It's finally 2025! I've been waiting for this since like...January 2024!
Yeah, 2024 was a lot. I did a lot. I cooked a lot! But I did not food blog a lot. I only made four posts. (I'm not counting the one my cousin wrote) And I ended 2024 the same way it started, by being sick. It's a little unfortunate, but it's not so bad that I can't start off the year right.
So on January 1, 2025 I wanted to cook something. My first thought was to make some curry, but the curry blocks that I thought I had in the fridge weren't actually there. Then I was thinking I would make some peanut stew because our friend gave us a piece of ginger, and I figured I should try to use it. I made this whole grocery list, and I even planned out a second meal, but then I realized that Aldi was closed because of course they're closed on New Years. And I had intended on buying almost everything on my list from Aldi because there are certain things I just do not want to buy from Giant Eagle.
Okay, so I scrapped that idea and decided on...hummus. Yeah, I know that's more like a snack and not a meal, but I've really been wanting to make some caramelized onion and balsamic hummus.
I already had two onions in the fridge, and you know what else goes well with caramelized onions? Pierogies. I had some frozen pierogies sitting in the freezer, and I figured that if I pair pierogie with some veggies, that's basically a meal. The holidays were pretty heavy so it was good to eat something light.
I ended up buying some green beans because they're pretty easy to cook and because the green beans at Giant Eagle are not that much more expensive than the ones at Aldi. But at Giant Eagle they just have green beans in bulk, and I'm the kind of person that will pick up each green bean individually and inspect it before putting it in my bag. So I was hunched over picking out beans one by one until I got a headache and decided that 0.91 lbs of green beans is good enough.
My boyfriend cooked the pierogie. He likes to first boil them and then toast them in the toaster oven with some spices and shredded cheese. It's pretty good! If I ever write a cookbook, I'd feature them.