As always, yesterday I didn’t get as much done as I had planned. It’s a good thing that I enjoy making all the plans and it doesn’t bother me when said plans never pan out. I hadn’t planned on the phone call that the stove wasn’t going to be here for at least four more months, nor had I planned to get dressed and run to town, and then come home and spend time looking online for tile for the backsplash and calling a few plumbers.
Additions:
Nothing.
Cooking:
I learned this week that baking a cake, making yogurt, preparing food for the freeze dryer, canning pineapple zucchini, making bread . . none of that counts as cooking. Silly me. I’ve always thought it did! According to Vince, cooking meals counts as cooking and I’ve only be “cooking” twice a week. I sure hope my new stove is one that will work for either a man or a woman because he may need to learn to use it! 🙂
I fix a roast. We have roast, rice, gravy, corn, rolls on Day 1. Then I skip a day and we have something else. Then on Day 3, I might make hash with potatoes, onions, peppers and roast and another veggie. Then on Day 4, we have something else and on Day 5, we have roast beef sandwiches with crusty bread and homemade candied jalapeno peppers. I asked him . . what do you want me to do with leftovers . . throw them out?
It’s a good thing I fixed breakfast because we ended up getting food to go and bringing it home while we were out so I didn’t cook dinner. I don’t even know if breakfast counts as cooking a meal. So was this one of my two days to cook this week?
This time of year, I love bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches on homemade bread. I thought that was a meal but . . apparently not, even though I have to cook the bacon.
Today I’m fixing Grilled Balsamic & Garlic Flank Steak. I’ll make Twice Baked Potatoes, okra and tomatoes and maybe cucumbers/onions in vinegar and oil for a salad, of sorts.
Videos I Watched:
I watched Contented Stitcher #24. She is the most prolific stitcher I’ve ever seen.
Stitching:
Too little, of course. I got the top row finished, the second row stitched and four letters of the first row stitched on the third row. So, if I’m going to stay on track today, I’d have to finish the third row, stitch the fourth row and then stitch the two rows under the box. Cannot do it!
Plans for Today:
- Stay out of trouble.
- Maybe get a hair cut. I missed the call from my haircut lady yesterday so I hope she still has time for me today.
- I think I have enough tomatoes to fill the freeze dryer so I need to get that done.
- Cut okra in my friend’s garden.
- Get as much cross stitching done as I can.
Tracy says
Ohh, I like the Christmas garden (Blackbird Designs) Kim showed. Theres just not enough time in the day to stitch all the things I want to.
Judy Laquidara says
I love that one. Can you believe how fast she is? Almost as fast as you are!
montanaclarks says
Men!! Did he enjoy that cake that wasn’t “cooking”???
Judy Laquidara says
Right!
RuthW says
Keep a running list on a kitchen wall of the “foodie tasks” you do in the kitchen that HE eats. Be sure to put the date and time started beside each task listed. You probably won’t have to point this list out to him, or keep it up for very many days, before he sees that you actually spend a great deal of your time providing meals for you both to eat.
You like to make lists!!
Judy Laquidara says
What I don’t understand about that complaint is that “cooking a meal” can mean opening a can of peas, a can of carrots and heating up frozen chicken strips in the toaster oven. Almost every single meal I make is a labor of love. I think about the day I made the Rouladen. Pounded the beef, added the “topping”, rolled them all up, tied them, browned them, simmered them all day, checking on them to be sure there was just enough liquid so they didn’t scorch. I did that because I love making things like that. There was enough that we ate on that for two days, but not two days straight, and he raved about it each time it was served, with different sides so it didn’t taste totally like leftovers. Even with that recipe providing two meals, it was still a labor intensive (for me) meal.
In my opinion, I can serve up a different meal every day. It won’t be something I spent four or five hours working on, so that two meals means two to 2-1/2 hours effectively per meal. Be careful what you ask for! 🙂
Rebecca says
-Making hash from the leftovers and new vegetables sure sounds like cooking to me! I will be interested to see if you get any more insight into this, plus I would like to know what all that baking and food processing “is” if not “cooking.”
Judy Laquidara says
I have no idea but none of it makes much sense to me.
Vicky in Bama says
It just means you cook smart Judy. You use time, tools and food in the kitchen wisely. Using one’s brain counts as work too 🙂
JustGail says
Baking and preserving isn’t cooking?! Fixing up the leftovers so it’s not the same exact thing isn’t cooking?! Harumph. I’d be sorely tempted to stop doing whatever he doesn’t consider cooking for a while and see if his opinion changes.
Remember the old joke about the stay at home mom with several kids, and the father comes home every day and asks what she did that day. One day and the house & kids are a mess, laundry piled up, nothing on the table for supper… and he asks “what’s wrong?” She looked at him and said “every day you come home and ask what I did – well today I didn’t do any of it.”
Linda Garcia says
I have a bucket in my freezer that I call the soup bucket. When I have something left that is not enough for another meal, I put it in the bucket and it goes back in the freezer, A couple tablespoons of vegetables, a little bit of meat from a roast or chicken or what ever. Also, the liquid left from vegetables or any small amount of stock that I didn’t use gets put in there. When the bucket is full, I make soup. It’s never the same twice. One of my granddaughters always asks if my bucket is full when she comes over. She says she loves my bucket soup, as she calls it. I think of it as a very frugal way to get a meal, and I don’t throw out small amounts of food because “it’s not enough to save”.
Judy Laquidara says
I used to do that but haven’t done it in a long time. Thanks for the reminder. I need to start doing that again.
Deborah Rhodes says
Well around here with me in isolation with covid since last Saturday and he is quarantined to our place. I think he is finding out how much cooking I do. I know he is counting the days until Monday when I am out of my room. Of course he thinks he did a lot when he did his laundry 2 loads but my meals have been pretty sparse. Grilled cheese canned soup and cereal. But so far he hasn’t had any symptoms and I call that a big win
Judy Laquidara says
I’m glad you’re doing ok, glad your isolation is almost over, glad he hasn’t had any symptoms but I’m also glad he’s getting to experience a dose of reality!
Dorothy Matheson says
I count every time I put food on the table and we sit down and eat as cooking a meal. Even if it is warmed up something or sandwiches. I still have to get things to the table to eat and clear the table afterwards and wash the dishes or put them in the dishwasher. Making a meal of any kind is cooking.
Judy Laquidara says
That’s exactly what I thought . . til earlier this week. 🙂
Vicky in Bama says
I wanna lastly add maybe Vince would like to eat his words? lol Love your posts Judy.