Another Recipe Request

Okay, I'm supposed to be bringing in far more lunches to work than I am. But the one time I was good about bringing lunches all week was because I'd been bad about getting takeout, so I had all this already-prepared food to deal with.

My chances of rearranging my life so I can consistently make cassaroles every week suck, so this time the call is for:

Crock pot recipes that microwave.

Something I can throw into the crock pot on Sunday, dish out into bowls, and be all ready to go with a minimum of effort on my part for reheating later. Pot roast is an example. What else?

x-posted to homekeeping

*belatedly waves to all the new people who've friended me. Hi, it's not always Dr. Who around here...*

Brief Book Reports

Like I was really going to wait until Sunday to start reading the new Who novels!

Finished Wooden Heart last night. It rates a solid "meh." I kept waiting for the plot to pull together, which it doesn't, but it's not as curl-up-in-pain-fully bad as, say Resurrection Casket. I wasn't expecting much out of it, to tell the truth, and that's what it delivered. (I'm reading these in inverse order of how interested I expected to be.) Doctor/Companion dynamics were negligible: this is one of the tie-ins where they could do a global search-and-replace and it would make no difference if it was a Three & Jo, Four & Sarah, or Ten & Rose adventure. (Considering some of the things Martha does, I think it originaly *was* a Ten & Rose adventure.)

About a quarter of the way through Sting of the Zygons and things are progressing nicely. Cole is very hit or miss - I couldn't get through Monsters Inside or Art of Destruction, but Feast of the Drowned was decent. In this, there's actual characterization going on - the Doctor's bouncing around like a three year old on sugar-laced crack, and Martha has just snarked him out. There's also a hint as to where this is placed in the timeline, as Martha's still a bit freaked out about "the last time she was in New York." The plot also has me fairly interested; I had expected a rerun of Invasion of the Dinosaurs and we're getting something quite different instead.

So far, no mentions of Rose (or Gallifrey or Saxon), which supports my hypothesis that the last episode was the end of that recurring theme. We'll find out about that on Saturday.

And a bit of non-Who stuff: stolen from tchwrtr, teaching binary numbers to nine year olds, using the Socratic method.