Snippets

There is a certain meal that I have a great weakness for...whenever I mention (again) to my man that this is indeed my favorite, he says, "Yes, I know!" (I guess I've mentioned it a few times...) For a while there I was making it quite frequently...until I had compassion on my poor man one day and began trying to do more research in the cookbooks that I got for Christmas...attempting to introduce more variety into our meals. But I can't resist making it once in a while. It's not some fancy gourmet something-or-other with a rich sauce, or an impressive roast and potato doo-dah. It's simply chicken pieces roasted with onions and lemon, salt and pepper, and some sort of rice--like today's white rice steamed with sauted onion and my mama's homemade chicken stock--and of course a salad and iced tea. There you have it. Katya's Great Confession of Food Weakness. My favorite. I like making it. I like looking at it. I like eating it. In "the old days" when I'd be downstairs in the school room doing school (like when I was doing English and American Literature right before dinnertime...the which I loved inordinately), I'd make an abbreviated version...Mama or I would make a salad and then just put shredded chicken pieces right in the salad. Iced tea made it a meal for a king. Or maybe just a queen, since this seems to be a sort of girly lunch. Today was a sort of day when I could indulge in making it again.


On a different note, I am enjoying the winter sunshine today. Yesterday was majorly cozy with all that snow coming down. But it was a bit cloudy all day...(I suppose I would be too if I were a cloud, trying to keep all that snow up in the sky as long as I could.) But this morning dawned bright and clear, with the sun reflecting orange-y on my neighbors' windows as it came up, and white smoke rising in the air from people's furnaces. (Is it smoke that comes from a gas furnace?) It just so happens that the place to find the best sun-patch in my house is the bathroom, which is alright, I suppose, because it's right off of the main room and I can keep the door open to enjoy the sunshine. I love sunshine and enjoy it whenever I can. Anyway, until later...