Caregiving from my kitchen
I do like to periodically make a few quarts of chili, and freeze some to have on hand. (Hmmm… I thought I’d written about that – I’ll have to, this winter!) It reheats beautifully, I freeze different sized containers so I have single and double …
In my last post, I casually mentioned throwing a frozen cube of basil into something I was cooking – and realized I had never written about freezing herbs.
These cubes look pretty boring, don’t they? Plain little brown lumps… innocuous, uninteresting, uninspired… And yet, of all the Convenient Foods I use, these are the ones that changed my cooking the most. They allow me to make sauces, gravies, and thickened soups, quickly and …
It’s that time of year. People who never normally eat hard cooked eggs find themselves boiling them by the dozen – and then wondering what to do with them.
As I’ve said before, one reason I keep convenient foods on hand is so that I can always put a meal together with very little time or effort. I have several situations driving this need. For one thing, I have chronic migraine. They’re mild, as …