Or in my case to get two uses out of one batch of chicken drumsticks.
Yesterday morning I was trying to work out what I could do with a kilo or so of chicken drumsticks. As I was thinking through my cooking options I also followed a train of thought to do with healthy cooking when you are living below the poverty line. There is so much negative publicity out there relating to low incomes being synonomous with poor eating habits. On and on whirred my brain, busily formatting blog posts until I slammed back into a wall of negativity relating to that blasted review.
I stood in the kitchen chopping vegetables and stewing on the fact that the reviewer had spat out the word recipes like it was a curse. And that moment was when I finally let go of the review. Of course I occasionally share recipes I am passionate about good food as well as playing in the mud. Tosser.
So I need to say a big thankyou to everyone that has humoured me whilst I have been sulking over that stupid arsed review. I am finally over it now and that really is all down to you, my dear internetz. Whilst I was analyzing my responses to the review and giggling at some of your responses to my post about the review, I also had a bit of a think about my blog and why I am blogging. The main reason that I am still blogging is because I really enjoy the ongoing conversation that I am having with you my readers. Thanks to blogging I now have a large circle of online friends and I am not lonely anymore.
Your ideas for the dragon eggs have made the air around me crackle with creative energy. Your feedback, friendship and support gives me respite from the sadness that threatens to overwhelm me. You have all given me a great gift and I am thankful.
So back to the chicken,I threw them into a large pot with a chopped onion, three or four cloves of garlic, some carrots and potatoes. I tied together some sage leaves and fresh thyme from the garden I also threw in a good shake of mixed herbs and a pinch of salt. I simmered the pot on top of the woodheater until the drumsticks were cooked through and then I fished them out and put them aside for later.
Somehow I managed to get sidetracked by twitter and the telephone and before I knew it it was tea time and the spouse was looking a tad gaunt. I kept the peace by giving him a drumstick and shooing him back into his cave shed. I browned off the drumsticks in some olive oil and more garlic and dished them up with mashed potatoes, peas and gravy. Simple comfort food for a Sunday night.
Today I will tart up the soup base that I made yesterday, by throwing in some greenery from the garden, kale and silverbeet. I have a heap of zucchinis that I was given so I will probably throw some zuke in to the pot as well. I normally have frozen celery tops in the freezer that I keep specifically for soups and stock but I have just run out and the celery in the garden is looking very sad.
This pot of vegetable soup will be our main meal tonight and probably lunch tomorrow.I will also freeze three portions for my lunch this week whilst I am at the studio. So I think that I got my moneys worth out of that batch of drumsticks.
And just because I can here is a photo of the moon I took last night. I couldn’t be bothered setting up the tripod so I just went outside and pointed at the moon and hoped the shots wouldn’t be too blurry. They weren’t. Yay.
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Sooo, I’ve got some celery tops if you want them?
Oh wow! Amazing moon photo, Kim.
And ummm…I might steal your recipe. Thankus!
@ Veronica, you should freeze them and then you will have them for your next soup.
@I am slightly obsessed with the moon Brenda. Take the recipe, that is why I put it up there. 🙂
Seeing the moon makes me feel not so far away from you, as I was just staring up at it last night. Lovely shot. I see where Veronica gets her cooking skills!
And here here for letting go of the silly things other people say about us. They matter not.
Love the recipe and the moon shot 🙂
I still say moon the reviewer but not in the lunar way 😛
I love that moon shot, it’s gorgeous! It hasn’t looked so clear here on Cape Cod, but I’m glad, as Fievel mouse was, that we’re all dreaming beneath the same big sky. I’ll try your way of cooking chicken drumsticks and veggies, mmmmm. Thank-you. Very glad to have found your blog!
That’s a great shot of the moon. I’m still amazed that even though I’m halfway around the world from you we see the same moon and stars at night. So cool.
Fabulous pic!!!
Great recipe too..I make a great chicken soup and end up with about 3 meals for the 5 of us!
Clear skies here so we got the same moon!
Why do I feel like a good bowl of chicken soup?!! Comfort food!
I love your moon shots, mine always look like a speck of white in a giant black sky.
I’ll email you my recipe for devilled chicken.
I have a thing about the moon too.
That moon… WOW!
You’ve gone and made me hungry now you know… grr! 😛
Yay for giving that review the kick up the arse it deserves.
Mmmm, chicken and mash and then vegetable soup. You and Veronica are beginning to make me wish it wasn’t spring here – you can really only eat thick lovely veggie soup in the winter.
Glad to see you back, blogging words and pictures.
Well you KNOW I live on soup..what times lunch? haha
Never be ashamed of your food. Growing up; if we didn’t grow it or hunt it we didn’t eat it. I never even had beef until I was around 13, when they changed the hunting regulations and we could no longer just collect fresh game.
I now work with some of the most expensive food available, and I’ll tell you what; nothing, NOTHING compares to food grown in my own garden, humbly and simply.
We’re scraping by now, and because of that we’re eating better. Fresh, not frozen, made from scratch, not pre-made.
Nothing on earth can compare to the taste of real people food, made by hands that know every ingredient and handle it with care.
And keep blogging. Once you start blogging for someone other than yourself it will loose it’s homegrown flavor. And you know how I feel about that 🙂
BTW: I photographed the same moon early this morning. Great minds think alike!
See!!! This is why I love you. I had no idea I could freeze celery tops for later! (I just learned a couple years ago I can freeze cow’s milk-which is funny because I froze breast milk for years before that-just proves that I wasn’t thinking outside the box) You’re a wealth of mothering knowledge.
I’m glad you are over the $%^#@* review…he knows nothing. His opinion doesn’t count.
I LOVE why you blog. I feel exactly the same!