Different Strokes

 

Neo-Impressionism / Henri-Edmond Cross/ Fisherman

Trying on  a new routine this week.  I will get up in the morning and cast the I Ching, but then go to work and when I get home, snag a beer and catch up on a little reading and do my daily screed while dinner is on the stove.  Let’s see how it goes.

I am thinking that this summer just ain’t gonna turn out a fine harvest.  Food prices are heading North in a pretty serious way.  So what does one do?

In my dotage, I am really shrinking my menu.  Getting old usually leaves the fine discrimination needed to appreciate fine cuisine far away long ago in the past.  Old burnt out taste buds tend toward the pretty un-subtle for spices, preferring instead being body slammed with flavors that don’t require much in the way of teasing out the flavors.

So, the go-to is the time honored college staple, “rice and stuff”.  Tonight’s “stuff” is some ground turkey (Grocery Outlet: $2.00/lb), a big wad of frozen mixed veggies ($0.50 for a half pack) and a cup of dry Basmati Rice (I figure around $0.50).  Throw in some spices (Tonight is Turkic/Arabic with Mint, Sumac, black pepper, garlic, dried onions, five-spice, salt).

Cook the meat with the spices, when it is done, toss in some water and some rice, bring it to a boil and simmer for 14 minutes.  

Toss in a half pound of mixed frozen veggies when the fourteen minute timer goes off and then let the veggies steam for seven minutes.

Mix everything well, eat with one of those porcelain spoons that the asian market sells.

Right around $3.00 for more than a person can eat in a sitting.

That is doable.,