This house is composed of adults who go on eating jags, as previously noted. Really, when you happen across something good you should eat it daily, right? Currently, we are all about homemade burritos and frittatas. For burritos, Mister Boyfriend cooks up a batch of Mexican beef, which involves browning a batch of stew beef and then throwing in onions, garlic, chiles nuevo mexico, plus random salsa and hot sauce. Then he adds a can of beef broth and cooks it down until all the liquid is absorbed/reduced/boiled away. I whomp up a batch of spiced rice (the spicing of which is a continuing experiment) and some beans. One round of all that makes about three days worth of two-person lunches, and all you need to go with it are fresh cilantro, tortillas, and salsa.

Frittatas are also perfect, since even a grad student kitchen always contains some eggs, some potatoes, and some meat or veggies that need to be used up. I saute some onions and garlic and whatever else needs to be sauteed and set it aside. Then I cube and brown the potatoes, whisk the eggs, and combine everything. Let it sit on the burner for a bit to develop a bottom crust. Top with cheese if you want and then run the whole thing under the broiler. Serve alone or with salad. Et voila.

But tonight we are having neither of these things, although Mister Boyfriend did pick up more beef and cilantro during his after-class grocery run. I had been planning on pancakes for dinner. He brought home some lovely looking shrimp. So we looked at each other and figured “Why not?” No, not shrimp pancakes. But definitely a first course of shrimp cocktails followed by a main course of pancakes and real maple syrup. Not usual, but strangely compelling.