If wishes were horses
Jun. 24th, 2025 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheart... we'd be all riding, right?
I wanted an easy day. Preferably without cooking. So I bought a grilled chicken in hope that it would be enough for the next two days. Which it would have, in theory - only that it was so overcooked there was no way Mum could eat it. So I switched to Plan B, removed all the meat from its bones, cut the meat into microscopic pieces and made our bastardized version of pilaw. Which is a seriously simplified version of risotto, basically rice cooked in chicken broth, pieces of cooked or grilled chicken and, in this particular case, cubed tomatoes. Since it needs to be stirred constantly (like risotto), I spent almost two hours in the overheated kitchen and was close to fainting when the dratted thing was finally done.
In the meantime Mum had a visit from the PT lady, and we both were too tired to eat a cooked meal. So we had a brioche, each, and ice cream. Our diet isn't the healthiest when the weather is hot. But at least I won't have to cook in the next four days or so, I've managed to make such a huge pot of pilaw. It will be a bit boring, but it beats cooking something else. And I've bought more ice cream, too.
Accordingly, I didn't do much else today. Grocery shopping and slave labour in the kitchen have just about done me in. Everything else can wait.
I wanted an easy day. Preferably without cooking. So I bought a grilled chicken in hope that it would be enough for the next two days. Which it would have, in theory - only that it was so overcooked there was no way Mum could eat it. So I switched to Plan B, removed all the meat from its bones, cut the meat into microscopic pieces and made our bastardized version of pilaw. Which is a seriously simplified version of risotto, basically rice cooked in chicken broth, pieces of cooked or grilled chicken and, in this particular case, cubed tomatoes. Since it needs to be stirred constantly (like risotto), I spent almost two hours in the overheated kitchen and was close to fainting when the dratted thing was finally done.
In the meantime Mum had a visit from the PT lady, and we both were too tired to eat a cooked meal. So we had a brioche, each, and ice cream. Our diet isn't the healthiest when the weather is hot. But at least I won't have to cook in the next four days or so, I've managed to make such a huge pot of pilaw. It will be a bit boring, but it beats cooking something else. And I've bought more ice cream, too.
Accordingly, I didn't do much else today. Grocery shopping and slave labour in the kitchen have just about done me in. Everything else can wait.
