On Facebook on Saturday (2 days ago), I posted this:
I am trying to get back to cooking some of my own meals. Today, inspired by Bev Serafica’s Photo of a lunch served to her by her friend while she’s convalescing, I made a cheese and veggie omelette. It has been a long long time.
... a long time since I’ve done much That involves pots, pans, slicing, dicing, mixing.... After my divorce, it was just me for a long time, and I no longer could get excited about cooking for just one person and then eating it and then it was gone. So I cooked less and less often. Still used to make big pots of spaghetti, or chili, or stew, but less and less often. And then I got a renter roommate who was crazy in the kitchen, and so I mostly avoided it. Stoopid, My house, right? But there you go—I realized how much easier it was to use frozen meals or buy sandwiches or Tacos or pizza or Chinese food or whatever. and not have to wash pots and pans and not have to spend half an hour or longer preparing.So: I’m trying.
In response to my observation that, basically, I don't like the prep and cleanup, and I used to do big pots of things that would provide many meals but basically I don't like the prep and cleanup--so very many of my friends provided--yes--helpful tips on prep and cooking and making big pots of things that would last for many meals. Yes, there were a lot of good tips that I might make use of at some point. But really I just don't want to cook. Microwaved meals are So. Much. Easier.
But all of that group participation propelled me into pulling out all the frozen chicken that's been in there a while (some from April when I thought maybe I'd do some BBQing but didn't; some from June when I thought Chip just might have a digestive or intestinal upset or the like so I bought a ton of chicken for him. Used only a very little of it). And grabbed the assorted veggies that I bought last week with the hope that maybe this time I'd feel like cooking and actually use them instead of eventually tossing their little corpses.
And made my favorite crock pot chicken dish. Good for many meals.
So, enjoy-- My photo & caption journal of this experience.
I think it's a lot of work too, and highly underrated at my house.
ReplyDeleteHeh. I know about that...
DeleteThis particular prepwork wasn't so awful. Really, washing and slicing carrots, celery, and onions isn't so bad. Chicken prep took longer this time because it was frozen, so periodically had to check it to make sure no parts were getting too hot and no parts were staying frozen longer. I don't always remove the skin & fat before cooking it, but I'm trying to do so more often, so that took more time probably than the slicing and dicing, since I had maybe 10 separate pieces. And *then* I kept rearranging things to take photos, so that added to the time. And looking up whether my cooking wine was still good. Stuff like that. :-)