Cooking (and cleaning) up a storm
Jun. 24th, 2009 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serenecookingPosted this to Usenet, too:
My mom arrives tonight and I promised her a pot of kneidlach soup when she gets here. Usually, I make the soup in a few stages -- the schmaltz one day, the stock the next, the soup on the third day -- but I had a rough week, so it didn't happen. No worries, I'll just cook my ass off today. :-)
So far, I've mostly rendered the schmaltz, started the stock (from two whole chickens and some scraps), set aside the chicken meat, mixed the matzoh dough, and attempted to keep all this from making my kitchen look like wild animals live in there. Oh, and I baked a loaf of bread, because my mom rarely gets fresh bread, and she's looking forward to it.
I get to hang out with my mommy for four days! I'm very excited. As she gets older and sicker, every time could be the last time, as I know that a lot of you here know, so I'm really treasuring the time we will get to be together.
(She's also bringing a big huge cooler full of meat -- for the last few weeks, every time she's seen some meat on sale, she's bought it and tossed it into the freezer to bring up to me. I think we're gonna need a few weeks of vegan food after this visit to set us right again. ;-)
My mom arrives tonight and I promised her a pot of kneidlach soup when she gets here. Usually, I make the soup in a few stages -- the schmaltz one day, the stock the next, the soup on the third day -- but I had a rough week, so it didn't happen. No worries, I'll just cook my ass off today. :-)
So far, I've mostly rendered the schmaltz, started the stock (from two whole chickens and some scraps), set aside the chicken meat, mixed the matzoh dough, and attempted to keep all this from making my kitchen look like wild animals live in there. Oh, and I baked a loaf of bread, because my mom rarely gets fresh bread, and she's looking forward to it.
I get to hang out with my mommy for four days! I'm very excited. As she gets older and sicker, every time could be the last time, as I know that a lot of you here know, so I'm really treasuring the time we will get to be together.
(She's also bringing a big huge cooler full of meat -- for the last few weeks, every time she's seen some meat on sale, she's bought it and tossed it into the freezer to bring up to me. I think we're gonna need a few weeks of vegan food after this visit to set us right again. ;-)
