Friday: phone call, walk, some cooking
Sep. 23rd, 2022 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutBoth kids in school. Picture day for A. She was going to go out for ice cream with her friends after, but there was a scheduling issue, so that has been delayed.
It’s a long weekend, because no school on Rosh Hashanah.
I’m reading Misha Fletcher’s truly excellent _Cooking Is Terrible_. This is far and away the best no-recipe cookbook ever. It’s very one-person / small amount cooking, with a relentless emphasis on cheap, fast, easy and still tasty enough. That’s kind of astonishing. I’ve never seen it done before. The result is really interesting — mostly lists of combos within very simple technique / form factor chapters. There is not much meat (cheap, easy), and what meat is present is bacon, deli meat, leftovers, pre-cooked (rotisserie chicken) or, towards the end of the book, instructions for simply cooking chicken (sheet pan) or pork (slow cook) for packaging up into smaller amounts to use in the earlier recipes (snack size baggies of 100 g portions in the freeze is disturbingly brilliant!).
She has the first microwave rice instructions that seem worth doing.
While reading it, I realized I could take the sieved out liquid from the can of coconut milk (the fattier / thicker part went into the soup / pie last night) and use that as cooking liquid for rice for my MIL. While that was cooking, I set up overnight oats for her with milk and raisins. Not sure how that’s going to turn out, but we’ll see.
Another pizza for lunch.
R. made pulled pork, so no one has touched the chicken and tomato stew yet. I’m thinking that’s going to be my dinner (well, part of it, anyway).
It’s a long weekend, because no school on Rosh Hashanah.
I’m reading Misha Fletcher’s truly excellent _Cooking Is Terrible_. This is far and away the best no-recipe cookbook ever. It’s very one-person / small amount cooking, with a relentless emphasis on cheap, fast, easy and still tasty enough. That’s kind of astonishing. I’ve never seen it done before. The result is really interesting — mostly lists of combos within very simple technique / form factor chapters. There is not much meat (cheap, easy), and what meat is present is bacon, deli meat, leftovers, pre-cooked (rotisserie chicken) or, towards the end of the book, instructions for simply cooking chicken (sheet pan) or pork (slow cook) for packaging up into smaller amounts to use in the earlier recipes (snack size baggies of 100 g portions in the freeze is disturbingly brilliant!).
She has the first microwave rice instructions that seem worth doing.
While reading it, I realized I could take the sieved out liquid from the can of coconut milk (the fattier / thicker part went into the soup / pie last night) and use that as cooking liquid for rice for my MIL. While that was cooking, I set up overnight oats for her with milk and raisins. Not sure how that’s going to turn out, but we’ll see.
Another pizza for lunch.
R. made pulled pork, so no one has touched the chicken and tomato stew yet. I’m thinking that’s going to be my dinner (well, part of it, anyway).