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edenfallingTonight's cooking experiment: two chicken thighs (bone-in, because Mom values cheapness more than the annoyance of deboning them), one onion, a bunch of baby carrots, about 3/4 cup of unsweetened applesauce, some white wine (half a glass? ish?), 3/4 tsp salt, some thyme, some ginger, and a pinch of rosemary. Cut up vegetables, cut fat off chicken, dump everything into a crockpot and cook on low for however long seems reasonable, which will probably be seven or eight hours since I do mean to be in bed by 2am.
I actually intended to be doing this experiment with pork, since that's what Mom said she was giving me when she emptied some of her freezer on me before she and Dad left for vacation in August, but hey, whatever, I am adaptable. I have no idea how the end product will taste, but four hours into the slow-cooking process, I can report that it at least smells delicious. :D
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Tomorrow's cooking experiment will be bean-and-ham soup, slightly tweaked from the recipe on a bag of assorted dried beans Mom gave me a year and a half ago as a 'hey, why not cook this!' accompaniment to my crockpot. I have the carrots, I have the onion, I have bay leaves, I have an actual piece of ham I've been wondering what to do with (more of Mom's August freezer discards), and I am soaking the beans overnight as instructed, so I think it will work out all right.
I will also be making either cheesy potato hotdish or catfish and broccoli, whichever seems less brain-killing as dinnertime approaches. The one I don't make tomorrow will happen on Monday, because I am both Organized and Determined. I'll probably do another batch of veggie sidedish while I'm at it, so I can stick the finished product safely in the freezer rather than having the raw ingredients go funny in my fridge. And then I won't have to cook for two whole weeks, except maybe Laddie's hotdish and that hardly counts.
*nods firmly* Yes. That is the plan.
I actually intended to be doing this experiment with pork, since that's what Mom said she was giving me when she emptied some of her freezer on me before she and Dad left for vacation in August, but hey, whatever, I am adaptable. I have no idea how the end product will taste, but four hours into the slow-cooking process, I can report that it at least smells delicious. :D
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Tomorrow's cooking experiment will be bean-and-ham soup, slightly tweaked from the recipe on a bag of assorted dried beans Mom gave me a year and a half ago as a 'hey, why not cook this!' accompaniment to my crockpot. I have the carrots, I have the onion, I have bay leaves, I have an actual piece of ham I've been wondering what to do with (more of Mom's August freezer discards), and I am soaking the beans overnight as instructed, so I think it will work out all right.
I will also be making either cheesy potato hotdish or catfish and broccoli, whichever seems less brain-killing as dinnertime approaches. The one I don't make tomorrow will happen on Monday, because I am both Organized and Determined. I'll probably do another batch of veggie sidedish while I'm at it, so I can stick the finished product safely in the freezer rather than having the raw ingredients go funny in my fridge. And then I won't have to cook for two whole weeks, except maybe Laddie's hotdish and that hardly counts.
*nods firmly* Yes. That is the plan.
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Date: 2015-09-30 09:43 pm (UTC)Yes, it's definitely depression. I've been depressed before, worse than I am now, but the food stuff is new. Sigh. I do really need to talk to my doctor about it, but as you may know, when you're depressed it's very hard to do anything. Massive catch-22....
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Date: 2015-10-01 04:19 am (UTC)