I love to cook.
I find it very relaxing to be in the kitchen and working with food. I don’t even mind the cleanup (funny, I don’t mind cleaning up after myself, but I don’t care to clean up after Brian). Especially when the closets are all organized. It makes it so much easier and a lot more enjoyable to not be digging through the cupboards, looking for this tool or that.
And I love a full pantry and freezer. It’s so nice to open them up and find the ingredients for something yummy.
Last night I asked Brian if he had any preferences for dinner. Some sort of chicken.
There was a while I made my own marinara sauce, but after cooking about thirty pounds of lasagne for a family reunion decades ago, I lost my will to chop onions and peppers and crush garlic and make my own. So, I started buying jars of it. Lots easier. CostCo carries a couple of different brands and I picked up the Classico brand. The size is a little bigger than I like, I eventually end up tossing about a third of a jar out after it sits in the frig for weeks. But it’s still more convenient than making my own.
Last month I saw that CostCo now had Classico Alfredo sauce. A three pack. I bought one. A couple of weeks ago I cut up some chicken breasts, grilled them and put them in a crockpot and dumped a jar of the Alfredo sauce over them. I didn’t know if Brian would like it or not, sometimes he’s really picky about food. But he liked it, his only complaint is it wasn’t ridden with peas. (In his world, peas are one of the four food groups.)
So, for dinner tonight, we’re having chicken alfredo over noodles. With peas on the side.
A simple yummy dinner because I’ve got a ton of paperwork to do today.
I’m thinking about looking at my ice cream maker recipe book and see if there’s anything I can do with pudding. I used to really like those frozen pudding pops…..