(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 small ice box is set up in the kitchen, yeah! It doesn't hold a lot of food, but more than the ice chest...and I don't have to buy bags of ice every couple of days!
When that happened, I asked Ds to bring me the roast out of his freezer. I had 2 pieces of meat in there. One is only for burgers...I'm thinking a Thanksgiving bbq just for us; more on that later...and the other is a medium roast that I use for whatever I need.
I hate to use it unless I know that they have more, but if not now, when? I lost all of my other food when we evacuated.
So, it's thawing in the ice box. My plan is to make most of it into beef stew with onions, celery, corn, and lots of carrots in it. That sounds healthy to me.
The upright freezer came up, too, but we need to wire in another plug for it. Ds said that he can do that pretty easily. I asked him to please do so, because I want to bag up the stew into 1 and 2 person portions, then freeze it.
I also want to get some chicken, make broth, and freeze that in portions, as well. That way, if I just want to drink a cup of broth, I can. Or, I can add noodles to it for heartier fare. Or vegetables.
Before I make the stew, as the meat thaws, I'd love to have some meat with pasta. Whenever we thaw a roast, we often 'steal' a little meat off the top, and make some spaghetti or something like that. We'll see if that happens.
We are growing a sweet potato. It was in Ds's house when we evacuated, and when they got back, it had sprouted, and he gave it to us.
I think that we'll grow it in one of the kitchen windows, next to my lemons, over the winter. Then, come spring, we can plant the slips in the garden.
Ds shopped for us yesterday. I didn't get too much, as we aren't doing a lot of cooking yet, but since the meat and ice box are now here, I got celery and carrots for the stew.
He freelanced and got me a small box of blueberries. I think that we will make those corn muffins, and mix them in. I also have 2 lemons, so can make them lemon-blueberry. It sounds healthy...and tasty.
I'm not eating quite what I should be yet, though it's better daily, so I want to try to minimize empty calories for extra nutrition. Adding the blueberries and lemon should accomplish that for the muffins.
How was your food week?
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