I just cannot believe how
irresponsible that I am being regarding food. I'm beginning to see a
pattern in my food wastage/usage. I think I like to go to the process
of preparing the food than having one or two meals from the food
which I prepared that tends to sit in the refrigerator (if I am that
responsible). When I was sick, a week and a half ago I made that big
batch of chicken soup quasi-chicken noodle soup because I had
Campbells chicken noodle soup in the mix. I tried to find my own
noodles but gave up and went ahead and processed what I had. The soup
turned out all right for what was. Now I'm much better and I think I
only ate two bowls of the soup so I still have lots of zuppa of the
chicken.
I was fortunate enough to
spend the majority of the day with my ex-wife/best friend Dianne. We
went to breakfast that spent more time making my apartment much more
livable. Was a pretty great day. Couple days ago I thawed two chicken
breasts. Actually I just stopped frozen chicken from the freezer
straight into the meat drawer of the refrigerator and finally got
them today. It was late in the afternoon when I finally liberated to
chicken breasts from their container. Note: these were foist go upon
me at one of my Food Bank visits. Typically, this packet of protein
resides in my refrigerator's freezer until I either use it or becomes
so freezer burned that the item is non-usable. I am trying to state
my commitment of using all the items in my refrigerator (upper and
lower) in a timely manner, wasting as little as possible. Therefore
I don't think I've been to the food bank once this year. I don't need
anymore frozen chicken or pork. If I could be assured of being that
would be another matter I and another blog entry.
The apartment is becoming
so organized it is getting that feeling that you don't want to move
for fear of producing entropy. But I went ahead and pulled out a
cookie sheet and actually found a box of tinfoil (actually Dianne
found the tinfoil in the back of the cupboard and she was fishing
everything out so) I opened the tinfoil and kind of lined the cookie
sheet plopped the chicken breasts on a sheet and through them into
the is at 450°. Now the trick for me in cooking these days in my
oven which is kind of low down is that whenever I make anything I've
got wait for that out to cool down before it that I can actually
reach in and pull the item out safely. Also, I try to let the oven
cool down to the point that when I do open up the oven door I do not
set off my pesky fire alarm.
I finally opened the door
and pulled up the baking sheet and skewered the chicken breasts with
a nice two-pronged poker. I took one breast to the side cut off the
end and sliced it into a few bite-size bits and did taste test. The
product was okay, not stellar but usable. It did not taste as good I
was will liked that I could use the sliced chicken sandwich or even
salad stuff if I want or even “beef-up” the chicken noodle soup
if I really want. I was able to keep the chicken fat on most of the
aluminium foil. So, I have a little cleanup but not nearly as much as
I usually do as well as using up stuff out of the freezer.
The high point of my day
was having breakfast at Dees with DD Sundays don't get much better
than that…
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