(This is the weekly post where you share your week of food. Did you have anything that really made your week, such as your favorite soup, a lunch out, or maybe you had something new? Find a new food product? A new appliance? Please do share!)
My meals are improving, but then again, I was literally starving for a while there. I was eating an inch by an inch piece of cornbread that was low profile to begin with. Adding 1/2 C. of broth to my day, once or twice, really helped turn me around, but it wasn't much, and I was really not well.
One day, I asked Ds if he would slice and saute a little meat for me. I knew that I needed, and was beginning to crave, meat. Chicken wasn't cutting it.
When he served it to me with a little rice, and some frozen Brussel sprouts (more on that in a moment.), I ate more than I'd been eating, and didn't feel as bad as I'd been feeling.
Well, yesterday, I took the last of the little 10 oz. steaks, which had been in Ds's freezer, and repeated that meal. After Dh joining me for it, I have a couple of small strips left, which I'll probably have with rice tonight, but no veges...darn.
Ds had found a masa based corn muffin recipe, and when I needed to put something in my stomach, or take pills, I'd take a little from the pan. The first pan - an 11" pan, lasted me a week, with Dh helping a little.
The problem is...I ran out, so have to make more, or I'll have nothing to eat right now. Few ingredients, and no 'fridge or freezer as yet.
And, while I'm definitely doing better, stomach-wise (I'm still having ginger tea 2ce a day, and a stomach med once a day.), I can't face just any food yet. Not that there are tons of options.
So, I've got to see about a new pan of the corn muffins (we're making them w/ 4 egg yolks, when my normal recipe calls for 1 egg, to boost it's nutrition.), even though by 11 it's way too hot to cook. I'm only using 1 little table fan, and it's triple digits out, so it might have to wait. Still, I need something in my stomach. I did have rice this morning to take my pills. Not nutritious, but better than an empty stomach.
If they get the freezer and generator up here, I will thaw the roast in Ds's freezer, and push myself to make soup or stew with the guys' help. I think that, in the same way as the chicken broth helped me so much, so would a soup or stew with meat and vegetables. And, I generally find soup palatable. I like soup.
And, if the freezer's up here, which is the only way that I'd make it, I could bag up most of it, and have some whenever I wanted it. Not a lot of variety, but that's not the most important thing.
Now, about those Brussels...!
I've used mixed frozen vegetables in quick pot pies, back in the day, eaten a ton of frozen peas in things, and had frozen corn. But, except for a cheese sauce boiling bag, in the 70's, I've never eaten a straight up frozen Brussel sprout.
I love fresh Brussels. I saute them usually, but make them all sorts of ways, from steamed to with other ingredients.
So, I didn't know what to expect from frozen ones, and, in fact, had to read the package to find out how to cook them.
Well, they were marginal, at best. Very fibrous, kind of stale tasting...but, I needed vegetables, so ate them. Shared some with Frankie, actually. He became my best friend! The next time that he visited, he wagged his whole rear, and tried to get to me. I felt bad that I didn't have more for him. It's the most excited that he's ever been to see me!
Anyway, when I decided to repeat the meal, days later, I asked Ds to get more Brussels, only this time he wasn't shopping in Ukiah, but here in town.
I was fully prepared to gnaw my way through the tough little brassicas. However, to my delight, these were not tough, and...not stale tasting! They weren't exactly like fresh, but those are too much for me to prep and cook quite yet, and frozen are fast. These made a fine substitute for easy, fast eating, and everybody was surprised at how many I ate!
So, if the freezer gets up here today (you can't turn it back on for 24 hrs. once it's been laid on it's side.), I may just get a couple of extra bags to have on hand!
Hopefully, we'll be able to dig out, and bring up, more of my kitchen items. I still need more of my pots and pans, plates, silverware, etc.
That's pretty much it here. How was your food week?
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