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devin_chain) wrote2006-12-30 02:49 pm
devin_chain) wrote2006-12-30 02:49 pm
Cooking.
Spent several hours deep cleaning the kitchen yesterday for cooking today. Used the glass cleaner on the stove top, the stainless steel cleaner on all the appropriate appliances. The granite reflects light again. My kitchen sparkles. It never sparkles.
Bought $260 worth of food last night with the goal in mind of cooking all of it plus what's in the freezer and fridge. Sick of eating out because I'm too tired to cook for three when I get home from work. I wanted to make enough to get to Spring Break, but this probably won't last more than a week or two the way my family eats. Not sure it's worth it. However, the cooking feels luxurious.
What I've made and stashed in the freezer so far:
Pot Roast
Pakistani Chicken
Tortilla Soup
ETA: Minestrone
ETA: Tomato Basil Soup
ETA: Baked Mustard Chicken
What I have yet to make today:
Greek Lemon Soup (May eat it right away -- worried it won't freeze well. Does anyone know how it freezes?)
Chicken Cacciatore
Coq au Vin
Shrimp Ettoufe
ETA: Giada's Artichoke Soup
Don't know what else I'll do. I have plenty of vegetables, shrimp and chicken to work with plus what's in the pantry I haven't even considered.
I'm having a ball, btw. I love to cook when it's like this -- on vacation, when there's time to enjoy. When it's zen, not forced. The house smells amazing.
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On a different note, I gave daughter my Lush bath jelly -- the white one that's meant to smell like Mimosa. It smelled like furniture polish on me. Surprise! It smells fantastic on her. Body chemistry. Huh.
ETA: For those who don't know, the luggage arrived. It speaks Portugese and complains we brought it back before Carneval, but it's here. :)
Bought $260 worth of food last night with the goal in mind of cooking all of it plus what's in the freezer and fridge. Sick of eating out because I'm too tired to cook for three when I get home from work. I wanted to make enough to get to Spring Break, but this probably won't last more than a week or two the way my family eats. Not sure it's worth it. However, the cooking feels luxurious.
What I've made and stashed in the freezer so far:
Pot Roast
Pakistani Chicken
Tortilla Soup
ETA: Minestrone
ETA: Tomato Basil Soup
ETA: Baked Mustard Chicken
What I have yet to make today:
Greek Lemon Soup (May eat it right away -- worried it won't freeze well. Does anyone know how it freezes?)
Chicken Cacciatore
Coq au Vin
Shrimp Ettoufe
ETA: Giada's Artichoke Soup
Don't know what else I'll do. I have plenty of vegetables, shrimp and chicken to work with plus what's in the pantry I haven't even considered.
I'm having a ball, btw. I love to cook when it's like this -- on vacation, when there's time to enjoy. When it's zen, not forced. The house smells amazing.
***
On a different note, I gave daughter my Lush bath jelly -- the white one that's meant to smell like Mimosa. It smelled like furniture polish on me. Surprise! It smells fantastic on her. Body chemistry. Huh.
ETA: For those who don't know, the luggage arrived. It speaks Portugese and complains we brought it back before Carneval, but it's here. :)
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I just had a very Brady accident. Tried to puree too much of the hot Tomato Basil Soup at once. Soup spewed out of the blender like champagne on New Year's Eve. But I saved enough for one good container in the freezer. That's fine. I'm the only person in the house who eats this one anyway.
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Fortunately I had no witnesses. Everyone's out at a party.
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