Day 1361 Salmon rusty

3rd May 2021

I’m not cut out to be a chief/cook/ preparer of food or anything really remotely to do with cooking. I used to have my standard dishes that I would make for myself, and I managed to survive. With Kelli out of things, I have been trying to keep us both alive.

A lot of the time Kelli has made things in the morning, when she feels strong enough, for dinner, and I have chipped in where I can.

Most of the time I have tried to keep the furniture side going, then making simple things to eat at the end of the day.

The vegan lifestyle does not easily suit my approach to food. Looking in the fridge and just seeing green things does not stir me to think of anything appetising. Although we have added fish into our diet(mainly because the kinesiologist said it would provide us with omega 3 and many other minerals the body can’t make for itself), so there are things I now recognise.

There was a piece of salmon in the fridge that I agreed to cook. It went wrong the moment I decided to use the frying pan instead of wrapping it in tin foil and baking it in the oven.

I looked for a simple recipe to make a sauce, but everyone I looked at did not have any measures, how are you supposed to make the bloody stuff. I was starting to lose patience.

I eventually found something and started the experiment.

I had to melt three tablespoons of butter in a pan(of course we don’t use butter, so I had to use the vegan stuff). I used garlic powder instead of real garlics, half a cup of chicken stock, (I had to use vegetable broth) some lemon juice, ( I had that) and some honey.

I should have used the runny sort, but I must have bought the wrong kind, it was as thick tar. Needless to say I wasn’t impressed with my effort, even after watching all those cooking shows. With that performance I wouldn’t even had got to the car park yet alone the tent.

Kelli wasn’t having a good day, and that got me down, there is no pattern. She is sleeping better, but nothing else is improving. I thought the sleep issue was the key, but it hasn’t made any difference, there is still no pattern, so still frustrating.