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It turned out really well too newbiewife, I just left a little pasta water and stirred it in!

(on another note - adding salad to my list...)
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Cold chicken and raw veggies. I need to clean out my fridge. I miss cheese!!!
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The thing about making a salad is that my husband and I are developing a routine for preparation that involves cooperation, and slow timing. I take breaks and walk out of the kitchen often.

Working together in the kitchen, then eating together has improved our daily lives.
He tolerates when I rinse and drain everything; I try to tolerate that he puts things away before I am finished with it.

It doesn't matter that salad is not my favorite, but add chicken to that and I'm okay with it.

If he's in a mood or intolerable, I don't return from my break. We've had some really late night salads.

But the salads are a work of art, not even needing dressing.
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Send, A truly great salad requires a lot of time and effort. It’s nice that you do this together with your husband.
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My DH and I have a strict division of labor. He is an engineer, he does the outside (including hanging out the washing if I ask). I do all the indoor cooking and cleaning up from it. I’m an ex-lawyer, so I do a bit more than the washing up if business trials are appropriate – and he does a lot more outside than hanging out washing. He does breakfast, puts it on the table, clears it up, and feeds me coffee before breakfast is ready. I’m happy to be waited on then, and I’m off duty for all of that. I do lunch and dinner, cooking, serving, clearing up, and the washing up. I have a two drawer dishwasher, but bending over it kills my back, so I do it old-fashioned way in the sink (actually on top the kitchen sink in a container).

It doesn’t matter what you each do, as long are you are both happy, and both feel it’s fair and you are cared about.
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Margaret, I love your strictly defined division of labor. Sounds very efficient.

My husband and I both love to cook but we have a one person kitchen so we have a strict rule that if one of us is cooking the other is banned from the kitchen or else. It simply doesn't work and can be dangerous.

He makes all the Italian dishes. I cook mostly vegetarian, I'm not much of a meat eater these days.

I'm in charge of doing laundry. He actually likes to clean and I happily let him.

We've each found our niche.
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I've had a package of yeast floating around in my cupboard that expired 2 years ago and today I got it out and proofed it, fully expecting to confirm that it was dead so I could throw it away without guilt. It's not dead, and now I have to make something with it lol
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cw -so what did you make with the yeast???
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It's still a work in progress Golden, I had bought some candied fruit to make stollen at Christmas but never got it done so I'm making a version of that. With all the fruit, eggs and butter (plus my cold kitchen) the dough was very slow to rise (I really should have had 2 packets of yeast) but I left the dough to rise over night and shaped it this morning, I'll probably be baking this afternoon.
I've also got a loaf of sourdough going, which always takes overnight to rise. Purists would be horrified at my methodology as I make my bread in a loaf pan and don't follow the recipe or all the fussy prep that is so commonly posted on line. I don't care about amazing oven spring and hard crusts, I just want a nice loaf for toast and sandwiches 😜
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Sounds good, cw. Enjoy!!!

Fresh salmon and salad for us today. R had fritters with sour cream too. One of our favourite meals.
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Breakfast for dinner, my favourite!
Featuring sausages, bacon, home fries with onions and peppers. And of course PANCAKES, smothered in maple syrup and blueberries.
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Italian wedding soup tonight. . I found this recipe recently, it’s a keeper. I made enough for my daughter and grandkids. The soup got rave reviews from them.
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Care to share the recipe (or a link) Hothouse? Soup seems like just the thing after over indulging yesterday.
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Oh, yes! Definitely soup days.

cw - agreed breakfast for supper is great. That was a ton of very tasty calories. How did the bread turn out? At one point I got pretty comfortable messing around with bread recipes. It was fun.

Hothouse, the Italian wedding soup sounds awesome. Very generous of you to share it with family. I have done that when we were closer together.

I brought in the last of the turkey soup from the outside freezer (balcony) and will probably throw a few extra veggies into it. I've got some spinach that needs to be used.

Tacos last night. An easy meal when you have have the cooked spiced beef in the freezer.
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cwillie, here it is:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024492-italian-wedding-soup
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Thanks Hothouse!

Golden - the bread turned out okay, I got two loaves out of it so I froze one for later. Unfortunately I got distracted and over baked it so it's a little dry.
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cw - should be good for toast!
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