🗑️ 🧵 ITT: cooking while being a caregiver

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:24:15 UTC No. 137309

Yesterday, I decided to satisfy yet another random urge to cook a nice meal. It was:
1 cup of dried, whole brown lentils
3 cubed Yukon Gold potatoes with the skins
2 cups of some mushroom and chicken bone broth I had sitting around for like the last two years (surprisingly its use-by was this coming April)
1 cup of water
A sprinkling of salt

I raised it to boiling then simmered it in a saucepan for about 20 minutes, and near the last few put a bit of Italian seasoning in it. Frankly, it wasn't winning in looks, but man did it taste good with some onions sauce and sausage I had cooked the day before.

Anyway, my grandmother with dementia got up in the night, filled the pot full of water with the stew still in it, placed in on the floor, and then went back to bed. I got four bowls out of it, anyway.