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Hello Blog 4/22/2007 8:28:51 PM
It's been a while since I've blogulated and I have a little while til I take my meds, so I thought I'd chat about left-overs.
We were very poor when we were kids; my brother, sister and me. My sis is the youngest of the brood and she's past 60 which will tell you that ain't none of us spring chickens anymore. As I was saying we were dirt poor when we were kids and there was more than one night out of the week that we would eat left-overs.
For those of you unfamiliar with that term it happens to be the food left from the night before...or sometimes a few nights before.
I for one have never minded eating L-O'S especially if it was really good the first time around. If dear old Mom fixed meat loaf for dinner on Monday and it didn't get all eaten the first time around, we could count on meal loaf sandwiches with gravy the next night.
My little sis won't eat L-O'S she thinks it's beneath her uppity middle class lifestyle and my brother doesn't eat enough for one sitting, let alone think there'd be something the next night.
This leads me to my Sunday night dinner. Earlier this week I fixed a roast and knew full well that it would make at least one if not two more meals. Early this morning, just before Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer, a bright idea occured to me. Chop up the remaining roast into chunky size bites, put them into water at a slow simmer, then after about an hour cut up the remaining sweet onion, which by the way will become the state vegitable of Washington State in short order. So I add the onion then some carrots and let it all simmer for hours and hours, then I wash off a big ol' tater, peel and cut it up then put it in the oven .400 degrees for one hour. I also pour virgin olive oil over the tater so that when it comes out of the oven it has a nice brown crust on it's outer skin .
About an half hour before I pull Mr. Tater out of the oven I open a can of Campbell's Golden Mushroom Soup and pour it into the sauce pan that holds the meat, onions and carrots. On a slow simmer the soup melts in with the rest of the stuff...then I do what comes next...I eat it.
Now I have to figure out whats next on the left-over list. Even more importantly, since all this talk about food, I am once again hungry...what's a body gonna do?
