What's In The Fridge

it is 10:30 a.m. in the holy city of safed.  i just broke my nightly 14 hour fast.  like many seniors; i'm staying put and avoiding the supermarket.  we are dealing with what's in the fridge and pantry to get us through another week; if at all possible.  i just made a pot of oatmeal.  i threw in some frozen banana slices, a few dates and some cinnamon.  it is so sweet.  it reminds me of those packets of  Quaker instant oats except there are no added chemicals or sweeteners.  i don't think i'll share this with my dogs.  i'm hungry and it's my treat.

i had three small potatoes, a couple of carrots, an onion and half a sweet potato leftover from the holiday so i decided to make a small kugel.  i added three eggs, a bit of potato starch, some salt and pepper and some olive oil.  it is in the oven as i blog.  i am going to make oat flour muffins for Shabbat.  i'll grind up some rolled oats and add a cup of chopped frozen banana, cinnamon, almond extract and a chopped apple.  you can use the rolled oats without grinding them but i like a finer muffin.  i'll add 2-3 eggs, a cup of almond milk and a little olive oil.  that should give me about a dozen small muffins.

luckily, the veggie truck rolled by yesterday, so i was able to buy eggs.  i already boiled a few to make egg salad.  i had a new mayonnaise put away in the pantry.  i gave the dogs some scrambled eggs for breakfast.  they are not eating the dog food anymore.  the Sephardi grandma went to the supermarket yesterday and bought two salmon fillets for me.  how exciting to have fish for Shabbat!  i gave the last can of tuna to the dogs yesterday.  i had been thinking about making tuna patties for Shabbat but salmon is so much more elegant.

i have some chicken soup and about four chicken legs left over from pesach.  that will be our Shabbat night supper.  the Sephardi mama is making challah rolls so i'll have bread for Shabbat.  the Lord works in mysterious ways.  i stepped outside earlier to pick some lemons from the tree and brought them downstairs.  it's almost like a form of barter. i'll give you six lemons for two rolls.  yesterday my friend's husband paid for my eggs and apples.  later on i gave him two leftover pesach cakes,  2 chocolate bars and 11 rolls of toilet paper.   anything goes to keep the seniors inside and out of the supermarkets..

i just polished off a second bowl of oatmeal.  i wasn't  really hungry but it just tasted so good.  it's amazing how sweet fruit and veggies taste after you eliminate sugar from your diet.  the dates just blew me away.  i used to eat pint after pint of Ben and Gerry's ice-cream and countless amount of chocolate bars and never felt satiated.  i just felt a true sugar rush after eating just three dates.  i usually have only two.

4;00 p.m. update:   i just defrosted a package of salami and smoked turkey to have for Shabbat lunch and during the week.  i didn't feel like cooking up the hotdogs.  i made a raw grated beet, carrot and ginger salad, and a small pot of rice.  Shabbat dinner is going to be awesome.  right now i'm snacking on apples and peanut butter.  i need to give the floor a quick mopping,  i'm not throwing any buckets of water around today.  Shabbat shalom and stay healthy!