Category: therapy

Simple yet fun meals

Chicken prices have been crazy. Like 5 plus for wings or leg quarters for $5.90 for ten pounds and they are gone before they get off the truck.

I went to frozen items and got chicken patties and made my own light version of chicken parmesan over pasta.

I made a lighter sauce with spiced stewed tomatoes.

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I also used leftover chilli and made corn dog chilli bake.

Corn bread mix, hot dogs cut up, chilli, cheese and more corn bread mix and let cook in crock pot for three hours. You can also do this in an oven.

Both meals were fun and tasty.

Happy food

I’ve have made some really good meals this past week.

Sunday Chicken Marsala (drunken chicken)..it was over baked potatoes and they were good. Cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and sauted breaded chicken in olive oil. Then cooked down in Marsala wine.

Ricotta cheese stuffed burger with sauted green peppers.

Homemade beef stew

I miss not having an oven as baking really makes me happy, but that is another blog.

Rant: No Pies, Soggy Fries.

First of all, one of these days I’m going to perfect the Big Mac taste at home, and get the nuggets like theirs and I wouldn’t have to go to McDonalds again.

Secondly, I don’t mean to rant, but if your job is to look at an order, please get as close to right as possible. Please. I ordered before peak hours, so busy moments should NOT be an excuse. (I have worked at a McDonald’s so I understand how crazy the rushes that they get.)

Thirdly, I know I should have not ordered off Door Dash. I mean I’ve complained at Door Dash probably at least six times.

I ordered a box and messed up, wanted extra sauce on my Big Mac and it said No Sauce ….grrrr.

I ordered pies, but never got them. Never got a message or call to change the order.

The fries were soggy, limp, and cold. I live less than two miles from McDonalds, they should have not been that cold.

I should have learned from my previous times of trying to order food on door dash.

My deliverer wasn’t bad, but he claimed everything was there, which it was not. At least my order was not from another restaurant or eaten. I’ve heard other customers had horror stories.

I hope to get a particle refund, but that just makes the cycle go again, sighs.

I just wish I had the energy to clean, write, and cook. Damn anemia and sleep apnea.

Egg Benedict

One of my favorite brunch dish is egg Benedict.

Normally, it’s English muffin, Canadian bacon (ham), a pouched egg with hollenaise sauce.

I love biscuits and bacon. I make my eggs over easy.

However the other day I used pancakes and chopped pieces of ham and over easy egg. It was so good.

I also love a good hollenaise sauce, it makes or breaks a good eggs Benedict.

Creamy corn, chicken bake

First of all, some of my family does not like the word casserole . . . So I made a bake.

Secondly, I’ve been off mentally and physically. However anyone can make this.

Shredded chicken mixed with cream of chicken soup, then cream corn and you make a jiffy corn bread mix and put it on top. Bake until corn bread is done. (It can also be made in a crock pot.)

You can add fresh corn, peppers, tomato, …

I crunched BBQ chips on top or you can use fried onions.

Home cooking

I’m in a complicated cooking situation.

I have no stove or oven.

I cook with electric nonstick skillet, toaster, waffle iron, crockpot (slow cooker) and microwave.

I have got cooking pasta and rice in the microwave pretty close. (Notes: they are very hot, because you have to make water boil.)

I noticed I do better when I cook. (I do not like cleaning up. Sigh.) Compared to going out so much.

I just feel with Uber Eats or Door Dash, the things are overpriced and the serving sizes have gotten smaller.

Probably the last few times orders got mixed up or the there was just something making me want more. It didn’t fix the craving or feel the void. (I need to stop ordering when I’m upset.)

Like I said there is nothing like a home cooked meal.

Homemade sushi

We got a sushi kit.

I read several recipes, and we watch many cooking shows.

My brother, mom, and I missed the local Asian buffets that served sushi.

I love Alaska roll. Salmon is one of my favorite fish. I also enjoy crab.

So we got a kit, I found Nori (seaweed), and we got crab, avacodo, and cream cheese.

We made a few rolls, it was messy and it really is an art. It gave me a new respect for those would make sushi.

The taste was still there. They were really good.