After one day of leftovers, it was back to new stuff again today. Lunch for the girls was 'Kraft dinner Florentine'. Except I made the pasta and cheese sauce myself using a weird pasta I found that looks an awful lot like beads on children's do-it-yourself bracelet. Hey, maybe it was a 'craft' dinner! Then I tossed in some chopped up spinach - hence the Florentine. Incidentally, for that terminology we have Catherine de'Medici, Queen of France to thank. She liked spinach so much she had it served with every meal, so dishes made with spinach are called as "Florentine," reflecting Catherine's birthplace of Florence. I suppose we should be grateful she was born in Florence, and not in the Italian town of Arsoli.
I made oatmeal for breakfast, finishing what the girls could not. Lunch for me was a fried egg on a piece of toast with a bed of spinach.
Later on I got to do something I have been wanting to for a long time. No, not skydiving. Brining. Which is just immersing something in salt water for a while. I did it with chicken wings, then shallow fried them ...
... till they looked like this
The brining did help. The wings were very juicy inside, and nice and crispy on the outside. Definitely something to do again.
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I had been giving the dogs their own specially cooked (by me) meat and veg mixed with kibble. But I recently stopped that, instead just giving them dry kibble. No reason really. Making extra food for them wasn't a huge chore and I did think it was healthier for them. They were a bit put out for a day or so, but, being dogs, soon appreciated the value of regular food more than they missed the tasty meaty bits. A side effect is they are drinking a lot of water now - about 3-4 bowls a day.
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