Caregiving from my kitchen
Several times, now, I’ve written about Planning for Meals, Freezer Planning, and so on. Quick recap for those who are new, here… the Inhabited Kitchen method of planning for meals involves making sure that I have food on hand – often partially or fully cooked …
Sometimes it just makes sense to cook a large quantity of something, to have plenty of cooked food on hand, for later meals. (Or, of course, to feed many people all at once!) And certain dishes lend themselves to this better than others. Even if …
In our neighborhood I can frequently get a pork shoulder on sale for a good price. One reason I have a large slow cooker, even though there are only two of us, is that the whole bone-in shoulder fits in it (I’ve had a few …
I didn’t really plan Thanksgiving week to be a perfect Proof of Concept of the Inhabited Kitchen approach to cooking and meal planning – but it was. As I mentioned last Wednesday, I had a particularly difficult string of unusually bad migraines. Ending, in fact, …
I believe that I have mentioned – in passing, perhaps – that it is summer? We’re well into the New York City summer – hot and humid. (And I resent that we had almost no spring – spring is a lovely season, here. Summer …