Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Lasting for 2 days. Then a midnight run to Denny's for a hot fudge Sundae.
Good morning Cwillie!
Until sciatica clears, from now on I plan to choose shopping at stores with the zippiest scooters and widest aisles. The newer scooters can turn on a dime. Would you believe that I have to give shoppers the right of way, even backing up to go around?
One guy was so stubborn, he walked away from his shopping cart
as I waited politely for him to move ...handicapped wars?
Nephew sent us all an article on the economics of retiring on a cruise ship... not sure what he was trying to tell us??
I think I want to retire to a hotel room with maid service.
I used to buy that big bunch of Kale for a salad or some stir fry. That was some intense produce handling!
Nowadays, I drive to the store, get in the little go cart for handicapped as people in their nineties still walking give me a good stare (but really, I feel like offering it to them before they collapse), ride that over to the packaged salad kits, any one with Kale in it is good, buy it, bring it home, ask hubs to open the lethal plastic packaging, mix it up-comes with it's own dressing-and send the rest with hubs to work the next day..no waste, good salad. I found the packaged salads can lose their flavor and freshness sometimes in only two days, so hurry, hurry, eat your Kale.
Do you think a driver's license is needed to drive a cart in the market, and the 90's people lost their license?
CW, I like monitoring the cooking... for now... because I think I learn something about browning and cook times and when to cover or uncover, etc. I like trying & experimenting. When my grandmother was still alive, I did use the crock pot I bought especially to make her meals, and I made some slow-cook, one-pot soft meals for her.
I read your post about your mom's current cuisine, and I also looked up pureed foods online. There's clearly a way to make decent pureed food. My grandmother would've eaten any consistency, I think, as long as it had some flavor. Dad would follow those simple guidelines, too, so do the cooks at this place just not understand cooking... are they too institutional? I served in the US military. I know what a basic chow hall meal tastes like, and it was never *that* bad. I do believe there could be worse than those military meals in elderly facilities.
Once the sun sets I'm headed for takeout but not far for my favorite Italian place which has wonderful bread salad and rotini bolognese
I made some stove top chicken thighs today and they turned out well enough. I browned them in a 5qt pan and threw in lots of chopped onions and a can of diced tomatoes, a can of mixed greens, and a single small tub of chicken stock concentrate dissolved in about a cup of water. I cooked uncovered on low for... forever...
In general, I like the results I'm getting from this low n slow method I'm using, but I only cook that way because I don't have enough experience to cook on high heat. So far, so good. It was on the stove for a good hour-plus, though, lol. It's not overcooked, if anything the chicken could be cooked just a tad more. If I would've known it was going to be on the stove that long (I was just monitoring it every 10 mins as it cooked), I would've used fresh chopped kale from the fridge instead of the can.
Send, tell me how you make your kale salad, please. :)
Yes, I inspected the bread first, I have saved the mold and am growing it in a petrie dish for penicillin when we will need it, so I am not all that wasteful. Hubs doesn't want refrigerated bread, so it doesn't get put into the fridge by him until it has mold on it. This is designer bread he brings home from church after it has been driven around in a hot car. If I watch it carefully, the mold grows often by day two-three. We have issues, and I admit that I am hypervigilant to protect from hoarding.
Oh, coincidence, he is digging through the trash, has taken out the bread...gotta run. For real, not joking now.
It's 3:00 in the morning, and I forgot to eat properly today, so I couldn't sleep.
Maybe now.....or who even cares to sleep anyway? But, maybe soon...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Jeez..........sounds obscene actually now that I've read it over. :P
I think I may as well finish off the rest of the chips later so that I've removed all the temptation from my house lol.
Kale chopped salad.
It took a little while to get used to the boxed soups. This last Christmas there were smaller boxes, that I used to help making a sauce or a gravy.
Go see the even smaller soups (not even needing refrigeration) now available in the stores-especially like trader joes or sprouts. Maybe having some on hand would be convenient for you, and good to take for lunch at a new job.
Maybe microwaveable?
Yeah, I had made fun of the boxed idea....reconsidering that now..for convenience and a quick meal. Low blood sugar is a dangerous way to shop for food at the last unplanned minute. I have to guard against that.
Anybody like these soups? Juicing celery all week....I am thinking now of liquids with flavor.
Blending a sandwich and calling it a pureed diet?
Isn't there a criminal law against that somewhere on the books?
There outta be a law against such ignorance. imo.
I Growl every time I see pulled pork on a bun for dinner at the hotel California which is not much better than polish sausage night
They throw most of it away - last night mom ate her dessert and not her dinner - wonder why ?
Leg and thigh Cole slaw and pinto beans with house salsa on a tortilla
But the pumpkin puree, squash was nice.
Luckylu fed her mom applesauce, jello, custard and pudding.
Will you be sneaking some good food in to Mom Cwillie? Lemon Merangue pie filling? Yum! MsMadge gets her Mom that, takes it to the NH/MC.
Just guessing here.
Coupons force me to buy stuff I don't want to eat.
Can you go online to search the restaurant's website, or a coupon site?
Would rather spend $7-12 at InNOut, than $19 with a coupon @loco.
Try googling this " 10 pictures that will change the way you think about pureed food"