This Week's Food Waste
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I saved shriveled potatoes this week by soaking them in cold water until they were plump enough to peel. After they were cooked, they made some pretty good mashed potatoes. I also cooked a carrot that was starting to go bad. All I had to do for that save was cut a little of it off the top. However, there are several more carrots that are going to need that attention soon. I hope I am not reporting about them next week.
This Week's True Food Confessions
The Week of the Chicken
If I'm remembering it right, we had chicken every night for supper last week. It all started with a roast chicken from Costco ($4.99). We had chicken as a main meat, we had chicken in chicken fried rice, and chicken in a Shepard's pie. Another night we had Kung Pao chicken from Ward's favorite Chinese restaurant. Other times, like for lunch and snacks, we had leftovers from these chicken dishes. It was all good.
Foodwise, it turned out to be a good week even though it was a somewhat stressful. That meant that more than once I didn't feel like I had the energy to cook. One of those nights was the night we had Chinese. The other nights were the ones when we had the chicken casserole-type dishes. The interesting thing was that, even though I didn't want to cook, it didn't feel like the heavy burden it usually does to me. I was still tired, but not incapacitated. Now if I can just figure out why and keep it up.
Until next time...
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Here's today's poem. Since it is a chicken theme today, I chose this one by Ogden Nash.
The Poultry
Let's think of eggs.
They have no legs.
Chickens come from eggs,
But they have legs.
The plot thickens:
Eggs come from chickens
But have no legs under 'em.
What a conundurum!