Recovery and Vegetable Oil

 Tuesday night, it blew and stormed something fierce. Wednesday morning, all my flowers were bedraggled. Since Tommy did not need to water, I pressed him to deadhead. I hope he did not do more, like cutting off the new blossoms that don't look like flowers yet--liveheading. 

He put Miracle Gro on everything except the succulent. Now, at 8 pm, it has been storming and blowing again. So, I hope there are blossoms tomorrow. 

I put a chicken in the oven and it is out, so Tommy had chicken, corn, peas for dinner. He opened the peas and put glad wrap over the top and stored in the refrigerator two days ago. That is gross. I never store food in cans. But, I don't eat peas, so I am not going to mention it. 

Now, I have three other packages of chickens and 2 pounds carrots and an onion for the oven. I am tired already. I took today to rest. Good thing. I slept 10 hours, soundly, and did not get up until 1:30 pm. Monday and Tuesday wore me out--dentist and cardiologist. Thursday will be a hard day, so I am not doing anything more except put the other chicken in the oven. Tommy will get the meat from the bone from the whole chicken. And, the three other packages don't need anything except storing after cooking. Most of it will go in the freezer in serving portions. 

We sometimes make a pickup at a business. One day, this new guy was so rude. He was new and not doing the job well. I suppose he finally caught on as he has been so cheerful and nice, very accommodating, going beyond the job expected. He is all smiles and cheerfulness. I am glad he is catching on and glad he is not so unhappy as he was before, but not cheerful for our sake alone. He seems happier. 

Thursday, we have help coming to put shelf paper in the cabinets. If they have time, I will have one get a turkey from the freezer. Maybe one will have time to cut the stems growing around the tree we had trimmed. Tommy killed a huge swath of St. Augustine grass. He said that is always what happens with Roundup. I told him that the grass needed washing to get the poison off. He had never heard that. I have also put plastic or newspaper down to catch the Roundup, sometimes plastic, sometimes cardboard boxes flattened. He can make a mess or cause problems! 

If I had told him to hose off the grass, he would have yelled and said I did not have to tell him everything, that he knows somethings. No, not nearly enough. 

I got three half-gallons milk for $10 and found Cheerios bogo, so got those, too. Full price, the milk would have been $14.97 for three half-gallons! Of course, I bought bananas.  Zucchini and squash were pretty and cheap at The Pig, so got those while I bought two gallons of vinegar for $2.24 each, a good price right now. Vinegar, zucchini, and squash are all much more expensive at Publix. I need to pick up 8 more gallons of vinegar at The Pig before they disappear or the price goes up. A $1 coupon on the two boxes of bogo Cheerios helped even more. 

My recovery is not complete from a stressful dentist and cardiology visit and Thursday will be a hard day, too. At least, ten hours of sleep will help me feel a bit better or not so wrung out and Thursday will not be so hard. 

I bought eggs for almost $3/dozen. I checked to see if any were broken, but did not lift them up. The next time I scrambled eggs, two were broken on the bottom and leaking the white. So, ten eggs cost me 30 cents each. Next time, I will lift each egg like I usually do. As it is, I don't know if we broke them or they were broken when I bought the eggs. It has been years since I came home with broken eggs!

I will not use Canola or Soybean Oil. But, a very few times I do need a vegetable oil. What oil do you think is best for us or the least harmful? I am buying Corn Oil with trepidation. I don't want to be caught without oil for the very few times and in the small amounts I use it. 

Once, I found vegetable oil for a very cheap price and a decent date. I bought 6 bottles and put them in the refrigerator to keep the date from catching up with me and it all going rancid. My kitchen was very hot in the summer. A woman who helped me said to me in a tone that pitied the old lady--I should just store it on a shelf so I would have more room in the refrigerator, that it did not have to be refrigerated. He tone was what made me angry! 

When I told her the price I paid and that the expiration date would come around before I used the oil and the kitchen was hot, she was puzzled and then it dawned on her. I used the oil beyond the expiration or "use-by" date and it never went rancid. Some days, I do know what I am doing! lol

I have all the olive oil I can use and only buy it bogo. What vegetable oil do you use? What would you not use? Do you ever have anyone give you useless advice while posing as the expert who knows better than you because you are old? You know that condescending tone?

It is almost 10 pm and Tommy is in the kitchen taking the meat off the chicken. I will get the second pan of chickens, carrots, and onions out at 10  pm. Cooking late was better than cooking this afternoon. We both had dinner, so not eating this late. He never peeled potatoes, so they did not get cooked. He was not troubled, but he loves potatoes. 

We bagged up all the skin, fat, bones, and juice from the chicken. My friend will feed what she wants to her dog or put it over the dogfood. Nothing was wasted! I left a chicken in the crockpot so long one time that the bones were so soft we were accidentally eating them. 

Tonight, I put only garlic powder on the chicken pieces to cook it. I have other tasty spices, but they have too much sodium. From now on, I will use mostly fresh garlic and garlic powder and less of the sodium laden stuff. Tommy won't care, because it will be tasty. He uses too much sodium and drinks too many Pepsis, but I cannot control that as he is in denial. But, I don't need sodium, and I control the tastiness of our food.

Oh, the carrots were so tasty and the onion. My mother seasoned with mostly salt and pepper. Everything she cooked was delicious. She did use celery and bell pepper for seasoning, too, as in a roast, soup, or spaghetti. She did use other spices in spaghetti. We did use garlic, but we kids hated it. Daddy was not subtle in using it in food.  

He eats so much healthier without knowing it...lol. 

Okay, it is time to freeze baked chicken for other meals. Have the storms been loud and wet where you live? If so, have they beat down produce or flowers? What have you cooked in a big batch to eat now and freeze for later? What did you have for dinner tonight?