Since Mom has been gone, she, the woman who cooks traditional meals
consisting of real food, well cooked and beautifully served...I have
been subsisting generally on popcorn or cold cereal for dinner because
we all know how bad tv dinners are for you. Around here canned chili is
considered a gourmet meal. It isn't like I can't cook. I'm an amazing
cook. Not your regular follow-a-recipe kind of cook, more of a
what's-in-the-fridge-and-freezer kind of dump cook with a lot of faith
and hope. Anyway, I've been pouting for a few weeks since Mom flew the
coop to be a snow bird. But I decided it's time to put on my big girl
apron and start cooking. Course I really, really don't want to cook
every night, so I decided to cook up a bunch of stuff, stick it in the
freezer, and have my very own sort of healthy frozen dinners.
Chicken
pot pies, some apple pielets with the left over crust, an apple crisp.
Basic food groups, right? Already in the freezer are six plates of
swedish meatballs and mashed potatoes,with a side vegetable--ok, I
dumped a half cup of frozen corn each the plate. That counts.
I have
some hamburger in the fridge waiting to become something
burger-fabulous.
That's what I've been up to today. My house
smells wonderful. The chicken pie is amazing--I ate one. I need to go
chop some onions because whatever I make with the burger, it will
definitely need onions. And garlic. So many possibilities.
I can hardly wait for Mom to come home.
