Ongoing Letter - Allan's Place
Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
Part of the reason for buying this was to use up all the dry food stores we have from Rene. Cooking all these lentils and beans and peas … well, it never really works out well. Either they’re much or pellets when I’m done with them.
A&C told me about their pressure cooker and all the good food it can create. I looked online and found a Starfrit on sale. A&C and I walked (videophone) for a while, while I was at Walmart, about which one to get. In the end, I got a Hamilton Beach.
Aizlynn and Caleb bought a new pressure cooker. We were talking about what one can cook in it. I brought up the Rene food (a rather large selection of leftover food when he finished his tenancy) and the fact that I haven’t the foggiest idea what to do with much of it. Here is an accounting of all the dried foods and their quantities in our collection.
The Pile
Breakfast!
Aizlynn called me, thinking of Glenn’s birthday.
We talked for a bit about dentistry (root canals, extracted teeth, and implants), Glenn (his life, his death, and things between), and pierogies (in England, they don’t have pierogies, but the closest thing they have is filled with strawberry!).
Glenn has been gone 10 years.
For Floyd’s BD, I wanted to get some beef ribs from London Road Market. I went there by scooter only to find that they had none. (Why would have display beef ribs online if you don’t have any?) So I bought some pork ribs instead.
Happy BD!
Okay, so there’s nothing really interesting to say about this. It’s just freshly ground coffee. But, to me, it’s a thing of beauty … in looks and smell!
Fruit and toast for breakfast
This just an experiment. I made meatloaf muffins!
It’s a mixture of ground beef and turkey along with finely chopped vegetables. It turned out well but maybe a little too well done.
Some folks say that corn on the cob can only be barbecued. Or boiled in a pot. My favourite way is to microwave it.
I really don’t like coconut. So why did I but PC Organics Muesli, a cereal with coconut? It’s a good cereal, one of the only ones without sugar (or some sort of sweetener) added. Except this cereal has coconut, like so many others! So I pick out all the coconut and give it all to Floyd.
I am also trying something new (to me) – non-dairy “milk” in my cereal.
I don’t see any problem with this. I used almond drink (sorry – I have a hard time calling it “milk”), but, if you do some research, you’ll see that almonds consume just as much water to produce as does (dairy) milk. So I’m trying soy and oat. I can’t tell the difference between the two, really. But neither of them has the taste or texture of milk.
You’re not supposed to see the bacon, eggs, bottled water, or Coca~Cola in the background. It’s just there for decoration. Just to be clear, I never buy bottled water (this bottle is continuously refilled) or Coca~Cola (left over from Christmas a few years back). I bought the bacon, though – first time in years. And, yes, I do eat eggs.