Preparation

Tomorrow is a "straightening up" day. I'll change the sheets, do some laundry, shop for a couple of items from the grocery store and vacuum. Hopefully, I'll be able to get some knitting done during the afternoon.
I'm making fillet of flounder tomorrow night for dinner. We haven't had fish in a long time. Growing up we had it often. I'm not really a big fish eater, but Mom likes it so I thought I'd give making it a try again. Yesterday I made Garlic and Thyme chicken breasts with roasted red potatoes. It was delicious. Mom only ate part of her meal last night. She wanted to finish it tonight so I had a night off from cooking. There are pork chops in our future and I have a recipe for spinach fettucine and shrimp which I'll try soon. I'm just trying to keep it interesting. For lunch today we had a garden salad. Mom had a sliced hard boiled egg for her salad. I cooked sugar free pudding last night which we had for dessert today. Fresh fruit will be the snack for tomorrow. I manage well in my small kitchen. I wonder how it would be to have a large kitchen with a lot of counter space for working? It would probably make things a little easier when preparing a meal. I've learned to work with what I have however. I do like to cook. I just don't like the clean up. That seems like work. The cooking is creative and therefore, fun to do. When I think about my grandmother and what she had to do to get a meal ready, I feel fortunate and know I shouldn't complain. In her day they didn't have frozen foods. Preparation was more difficult. There were NO microwaves to reheat meals. She had an Ice Box which required Ice which was delivered to the home. I could go on and on, but you get the picture. We have it easy today in comparison to what our grandmothers and mothers had to do. I'm thankful for the free time the modern life allows me to have. We do tend to fill it up with things. I guess that happens because we want to feel productive. We want to have a full life.