After hip surgery a few years back, I had the complication of a grave sepsis crisis followed by a lengthy convalescence. At that time I basically lost contact with, and any semblance of control over, the contents of the kitchen cupboards and freezer 🙂 Far from complaining, I’ve been very grateful that Mike is a good cook, and with him in retirement, we now share the cooking, which’s great.
As a result I occasionally find interesting things in the food cupboards that I know I never bought, or even would never buy, either – such as potato flakes, for instance. I grant you, they can be useful, but they’re not ‘me’. Another difference in how we handle things is that I often deliberately make enough of something to freeze a portion of it for the future.
So this morning I was thinking of tonight’s dinner, and while rummaging found two candidates. One was a clearly labelled roll of cooked pork belly stuffed with prunes and onions , and with baked veggies and some kind of apple sauce, I know it will be lovely. The other package I pulled out simply because I didn’t recognise it. The plastic around it has nothing written or printed on it, but suggests that two or three pieces of whatever the breaded shapes are have already been used.
The uniformity of these ‘things’ suggests commercially prepared chicken kiev. If true, those would also be lovely hot with some nice veggies, or cooked and eaten cold with salad – if that is what they are!!!! They’re still frozen solid so I can’t detect any identifying smell yet … but when Mike comes downstairs in a while he might cast some light on these mystery things. If either of us have reservations, we’ll chuck them out, I promise! But either way, I’ve got dinner tonight covered, and maybe tomorrow’s too !