One of the challenges of being single is learning how to cook for one
person. Most recipes serve a minimum of 4. I'm not a big leftover person
so around the second or third day of the same dish, I'm ready for
something different. The frozen dinner choices are much better than they
used to be and they can't be beat for convenience but sometimes you
want to get into the kitchen, make a mess, and eat some home cooking. I
want to explore the options of cooking for one, including cutting
recipes in half, combining several days of cooking to optimize the use
of fresh ingredients, and finding friends in the same boat, to find
solutions to one of life's oldest questions - what's for dinner?
Five Minute Friday is a writing event that has writers spending five minutes writing on the same topic and then sharing them at http://katemotaung.com/five-minute-friday/ . This week's word is Time. Sometimes time feels like this, like we are in it. Standing inside it, watching life pass by. It is so easy to get stuck in a time - in our pain, in our hurt. We hear the ache tick away in our head like a giant clock. Time, instead, is a gift. More time with family, more time to accomplish goals, more time to see the world. When you are hurting, it seems like time takes forever. One day turns into another day, turns into another day. When we hate a job, the five days of time that make up a work week seem to go on forever. But those five days are also a gift. Because these days, a job is not a guarantee. I want to see time as gift, not as a chore. I want to be on the other side of it, wishing there was more of it. Making the most of every hour, minute, and second instead of
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