Christmas eve is for cooking
terday I did the shopping and a friend gave me some shroom brownies, or chocolates or whatever it is. Just enough for two old fogies to have a light christmas high and look for santa or his elves! We're going to do that tomorrow early and play video games.
So today I spent cooking. Right after breakfast a turkey and a turkey breast roast went in the oven. Then I made the fruit salad. Then I carved up the cooked turkey and took a bath. Dan carved the roast when it was done.
Came out the tub and made winter rainbow soup with rainbow carrots, bunched fresh herbs, yam, red potato, red onion, turkey, broth, and turkey fat. With the stock cubes and all the food it needs no seasoning usually so I left it out. I can add a little at the table if it's pale. I find this is rarely the case. Using no salt in the soup also reduces our total salt inake since w'ere terrible that way. Salty foods are our achilles heel still. Chips, smoked meats, dan and his cheese, etc. The salsa too, and when I make eggs or meat always with the salt. I'm pleased that my soups taste so rich without any! Condensed stock does that. So much flavour. So after the soup was made, I broiled up a smoked cod fillet. Then I packed away half the soup and meat into the freezer for other days and the rest into the fridge for the week and WHEW, it's tiring!
I still have veggies for later in the week as well as our fresh veggie tray that I keep topped up with cheaper veggies I cut myself. It's how I do all my food if I can, prepare it in bulk in one energetic day of kitchen work, then just eat it cold or warmed over or add it to new dishes on the spot. All the stuff is ready to eat or ready to add to a dish. Most of the time I'm quite satisfied to eat it cold from the fridge or warm up just the meat and eat things plain. Grey Owl once said that "the only seasoning I need is hunger." Which is to say, you don't need it all fancy unless you're overfed. These days, though, people are eating voluminous amounts of food for dregs of nutrition packed in powder kegs of calories they can't burn. They're both starved and overfed at the same time and hanging constantly on the edge of severe malnutrition. When you start to focus your meals on fresh meat and plant insteaad of dishes and servings and quick sauce ready heat foods, you start getting satisfaction from those meals.
So I'm beat and Dan's playing xbox while I find nothing to do over in the kitchen. I'm too tired to do much. Tomodachi life, maybe some other 3ds games ought to suit me.
So today I spent cooking. Right after breakfast a turkey and a turkey breast roast went in the oven. Then I made the fruit salad. Then I carved up the cooked turkey and took a bath. Dan carved the roast when it was done.
Came out the tub and made winter rainbow soup with rainbow carrots, bunched fresh herbs, yam, red potato, red onion, turkey, broth, and turkey fat. With the stock cubes and all the food it needs no seasoning usually so I left it out. I can add a little at the table if it's pale. I find this is rarely the case. Using no salt in the soup also reduces our total salt inake since w'ere terrible that way. Salty foods are our achilles heel still. Chips, smoked meats, dan and his cheese, etc. The salsa too, and when I make eggs or meat always with the salt. I'm pleased that my soups taste so rich without any! Condensed stock does that. So much flavour. So after the soup was made, I broiled up a smoked cod fillet. Then I packed away half the soup and meat into the freezer for other days and the rest into the fridge for the week and WHEW, it's tiring!
I still have veggies for later in the week as well as our fresh veggie tray that I keep topped up with cheaper veggies I cut myself. It's how I do all my food if I can, prepare it in bulk in one energetic day of kitchen work, then just eat it cold or warmed over or add it to new dishes on the spot. All the stuff is ready to eat or ready to add to a dish. Most of the time I'm quite satisfied to eat it cold from the fridge or warm up just the meat and eat things plain. Grey Owl once said that "the only seasoning I need is hunger." Which is to say, you don't need it all fancy unless you're overfed. These days, though, people are eating voluminous amounts of food for dregs of nutrition packed in powder kegs of calories they can't burn. They're both starved and overfed at the same time and hanging constantly on the edge of severe malnutrition. When you start to focus your meals on fresh meat and plant insteaad of dishes and servings and quick sauce ready heat foods, you start getting satisfaction from those meals.
So I'm beat and Dan's playing xbox while I find nothing to do over in the kitchen. I'm too tired to do much. Tomodachi life, maybe some other 3ds games ought to suit me.