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[the_rck]

Drat. I was going to make spinach-bean soup for lunch, but it turns out we have no spinach or other similar greens. I’m trying to decide if it’s reasonable to ask Scott to stop off to pick some up on his way home. I do have a prescription waiting, so maybe it makes sense to. I think there might be some other things we actually need this evening.

I’m going out to lunch tomorrow, so I won’t make the soup then, but I might make it Friday. I’d do it for dinner tonight, given the right ingredients, but we’re going to be feeding some extra kids who have tried and not liked this soup. Though… Maybe I should. All the meat leftovers we have are pork, so I’m planning to give the kids microwaved chicken patties (our guests are Muslim). I’m not sure about me and Scott eating pork while they have chicken patties, and I’m not at all enthusiastic about me and Scott eating chicken patties.

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[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I am reminded again how lucky I am that someone else does the cooking round here....

I'd be hopeless, salad every night...

[the_rck]

It's easier in cold weather. I preheat the oven to 350F, dump the chicken pieces or pork pieces in a pyrex pan and shove it in there until the meat thermometer tells me it's safe to eat. Sometimes, I dump onion soup or cream of mushroom soup or sliced mushrooms on top before I put it in the oven but mostly not. We steam all of the vegetables that we don't eat raw, and we do it in the microwave, so it's a matter of dumping things in the right container, putting it in, and pressing some buttons.

For me, it's a matter of spoons. I can't manage a lot of time on my feet, doing stuff, so I aim for things that don't take very much time.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

For me, it's a startling level of incompetence - I have burned boiled water, exploded mushrooms (we still don't quite know how) added salt four times without thinking, forgotten to turn the over off/on... and the family still is awed by (but is kind enough not to mention) The Baby's Bottle With Added Icing Sugar and The Spaghetti Incident...