Delicious: Find the weekend during the week

Usually what happens is that in the early part of the week, I am committed, firmly and irrevocably, toward a full five days of home-cooked, home-packed, packed-full-of-nutrition-and-flavor lunches that will make me glad to be alive and perhaps keep me from shattering a third story window and plummeting to my death. By day three (who am I kidding--day two. Sometimes, first day fail) I am booking across the street for a sandwich, or throwing a Hot Pocket into my bag to nuke come noon thirty when I want to gnaw off the arm of my chair and escape back into the wild from whence I came.

All this to say: the LA Times's Weekend Cook reminds me that a few comforting hours in the kitchen on a Saturday morning--before the crazy running around kicks into gear and I am racing flat out and straight ahead trying to cram my free time up until it is anything but with chores and obligations--can yield an entire week of satisfying food and flavors to be slowly reheated and enjoyed with great gusto. A single bite will remind you of those moments you spent standing at your kitchen counter, taking care of yourself, and the week will get that much better.

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