I got up at 6:30 am today to go to the grocery store and pick up a few items I needed for a couple of recipes I found online.
Once I got up I was still tired so I took a shower and debated whether I should go or skip it. I ended up going and getting the ingredients I needed. I’m not really a morning person but I can see the beauty of getting up early when there are hardly any people out and no traffic and it’s quiet. But I’m still a night person.
Anyways, I ate a good breakfast and puttered around the apartment then I cooked up a batch of homemade apple sauce. Then, I put some dry uncooked pinto beans in a big pot to soak for 8 hours to use later for a Mexican dish I found online that I made once before that I really liked. Then I boiled some eggs and made deviled eggs. I might make a pot of Spanish rice later; I’m not sure about that.
But I have a whole shelf in my kitchen cupboard filled
with 1 or 2 lb. bags of dried uncooked pinto beans, black beans, brown rice, white rice, spaghetti, rotini, dried split peas. I got them from the food pantry and I always avoided using them because I always thought they were too hard or too much trouble to cook. So they built up but I discovered they aren’t hard to make and there are all kinds of delicious recipes to use them in online. I’ll be eating good the rest of this month.