Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
I would make him a slow roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, Home made biscuits, Broccoli in cheese sauce, buttered kernel corn, apple sauce and a double fudge cake with vanilla ice cream for dessert. I would make plenty so he had a few days of leftovers. I think a few days without beans and chicken guts would do him some good.
Anybody else that would LOVE to cook that old curmudgeon a good meal? I wonder what Jeanne would make.
i s'pect the handfull of hepc meds here in a few will fill me up till breakfast time . ( more pills , lol ..)
Grilled pork steaks, mashed potatoes and veggies are on the menu tonight.
Alternative, too hungry and hot too cook dinner: line a dinner plate with romaine lettuce leaves. Add a pile of raw veggies: red pepper strips, carrot sticks, celery, cherry tomatoes, brocoli, snap peas. Dip into a homemade salsa (red beans, black beans, chopped fresh tomatoes, frozen organic corn, hot sauce, or use a dip of humus.
any other lazy cook ideas?
Sleep? What's that? LOL
Bring on the next sauce challenge!
made edna some more rice and pineapple but ill bet shed like rice and apple even better. edna is a good cook . i cant believe shes eating my gruel now ..
Tomorrow's challenge is a jar of Trader Joe's Many Garlic Sauce.
my leftovers get slipped right into the new dish anyway so it wasnt a matter of waste , only the challenge..
i like one dish meals too , like bread rolls with the meat , cheese and vegs inside. chili dogs with beef , cheese , onion , smashed red beans in the sauce -- pretty complete meal ..
usually i keep my frying skillet in the fridge, beats washing it daily.. ditto bread sheets..
cooking should be fun , not hard work..
Fave niece is working tomorrow, Mother's Day. So, she dropped by with dinner - Panda Chinese take out. Love the fried rice, the dry noodles (not oily), favorite beef broccoli and hot spicy chicken. Yum!
And, she brought me a Mother's Day gift. Guess what it is? A Presto Electric griddle with a 10.5 x 20 inch cooking surface. She says that now I can cook my sausage and the eggs at the same time. She told me how to clean it, and Do Not plug it in until it's completely dried, etc... Hmmm... I'm not that good yet where I can cook several things at the same time.
ill eat some choc baking chips and watch shirley manson perform in that infernal black a - shirt..
i was going to get turkey necks today to cook with beans. the s**ts were 4 bucks a pound. i bought chicken livers instead. i need iron , not windpipe and bones..
looks like another ambien night. they only put you out for 5 hrs but its a deep cycle sleep that really freshens you up..
i see pink at the base of my nails. freaking anemia with 7 weeks of treatment to go.. hemoglobin low, fading , fading , fading. no wait, thats the ambien knocking my dumb a** out..
Last week, I went to the store to buy ingredients needed for chicken soup. I hesitated on the cabbage and potatoes. I told sis that I stood there staring at it because I don't know how long it will take to cook the cabbage/potatoes. I stood there wondering which would be faster to cook the potatoes. Micro or over the stove. In the end, I just took both. I will try to cook soup this weekend.
FYI, fave sis was shocked when I said that I was planning to make breakfast from a youtube video...on cooking bread on a pan with a hole in the middle which you crack an egg and put it in the hole, then flip it over, add on top cheese until it melts. Sis said, "You?! Cook?!!!!" {{[chuckling}}} Out of 8 kids, I'm the only one who doesn't cook at all. Anyway, I've perfected my fried rice and eggs. I'm bored with it. So, I've been looking at YouTube for other 'easy' breakfast menus. I'm going to definitely have to throw in some kind of meat with that egg in a bread hole.
By the way, we ate at a restaurant that served tofu. I was so surprised that it had taste. So, I found a very simple recipe on how to cook tofu. I just need to figure out Which kind of tofu (it said firm) and how to incorporate it into my meal.
I don't have a real stove with an oven. So, one time, long time ago, I made a cake by steaming it. Because I was steaming it, I don't recall if I used eggs. I know that I skipped the oil and replaced it with ... orange soda. =) I'm thinking of doing it again. I tried googling on baking a cake by microwave. Nope. Can only bake a cake in a coffee mug. So, I will need to see if it's feasible to steam a cake using one of our extra rice cookers that have steam capability. I'd love to make carrot cake and throw in some walnuts in it.