More Housewifery...
Jan. 31st, 2007 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumWhen my mother got married back in 1962 to my biological father she came equipped, as women did then, with a cookery book. The book in question was called "The I Hate to Cook Book" by Peg Bracken and it's pretty much a book that defined much of my childhood, in odd ways. I inherited the book somewhere along the line, and in it is my mother's little notes to herself, carefully dated with the first time she tried the receipe.
With my new zest for trying to be good at this housewife thing in hopes that the Universe approves and arranges it so I can keep doing it, I've been very good about going through my receipe books, of which I have legions for some reason, and actually planning my weekly meals. It actually does help keep costs down because I'm not buying the more expensive already prepared things, and I'm less apt to say, "We don't have anything for dinner, let's go to MacDonalds."
Despite the aforementioned legions of recipies, the book I find myself going to the most is, naturally, the I Hate to Cook Book. Today I did something I've never done before, thanks to Peg Bracken.
I made a new meal out of leftovers.
Seriously, I've never done that before. Previously leftovers were something that lived in my 'fridge until they started evolving life. Recently I'd just started throwing them out, despite the guilt one always feels upon throwing away food. Staving children in China and all that. However this time was different.
On Monday we had a pork roast that was way too big for the three of us, so there was quite a bit leftover. Definintely too much to throw away. So, I got out my trusty book and sure enough there was a receipe for leftover pork. It's called "Gung Ho": Leftover pork cut into strips and heated up with chicken bouillon then poured over Chinese Noodles and coverd with soy sauce for taste. (You can put green onion on top, but I didn't do that)
It was nice. Fairly tasty, Charlie had seconds, and the pork has been used again. Huzzah.
Oh, in other news, the dinnerware I bought at the thrift shop for $10 I just sold on eBay for $25. Pretty cool. I promptly went out and bought new dinnerware from Kohls. The plates are square! With the sale you can mix and match, so I got 3 purple dinner plates, and then three that were multi coloured (can't find a picture) and then 2 yellow dessert plates, and two multi-coloured dessert plates, and 2 purple bowls, and 2 mult-coloured bowls. It's all sorts of pretty.
And my hands are dirty because I cleaned my oven without using gloves, because I didn't have any. Ick.
With my new zest for trying to be good at this housewife thing in hopes that the Universe approves and arranges it so I can keep doing it, I've been very good about going through my receipe books, of which I have legions for some reason, and actually planning my weekly meals. It actually does help keep costs down because I'm not buying the more expensive already prepared things, and I'm less apt to say, "We don't have anything for dinner, let's go to MacDonalds."
Despite the aforementioned legions of recipies, the book I find myself going to the most is, naturally, the I Hate to Cook Book. Today I did something I've never done before, thanks to Peg Bracken.
I made a new meal out of leftovers.
Seriously, I've never done that before. Previously leftovers were something that lived in my 'fridge until they started evolving life. Recently I'd just started throwing them out, despite the guilt one always feels upon throwing away food. Staving children in China and all that. However this time was different.
On Monday we had a pork roast that was way too big for the three of us, so there was quite a bit leftover. Definintely too much to throw away. So, I got out my trusty book and sure enough there was a receipe for leftover pork. It's called "Gung Ho": Leftover pork cut into strips and heated up with chicken bouillon then poured over Chinese Noodles and coverd with soy sauce for taste. (You can put green onion on top, but I didn't do that)
It was nice. Fairly tasty, Charlie had seconds, and the pork has been used again. Huzzah.
Oh, in other news, the dinnerware I bought at the thrift shop for $10 I just sold on eBay for $25. Pretty cool. I promptly went out and bought new dinnerware from Kohls. The plates are square! With the sale you can mix and match, so I got 3 purple dinner plates, and then three that were multi coloured (can't find a picture) and then 2 yellow dessert plates, and two multi-coloured dessert plates, and 2 purple bowls, and 2 mult-coloured bowls. It's all sorts of pretty.
And my hands are dirty because I cleaned my oven without using gloves, because I didn't have any. Ick.