One More Day Of Frozen Pipes And Dinner

One More Day Of Frozen Pipes  And Dinner

Its winter in upstate New York and we are going into our fifth day of single digit temperatures and the fifth day that my water  lines are frozen except for in the tub. The weather station is predicting warmer than usual temperatures in a couple of days.

Meantime I am trying to find ways of doing the most simple of doing the most simple of tasks like showering and cooking.

The shower is a freezing cold option I don’t care to think about right now and I have to convince myself to get in and brave the cold water. That will stop soon and I will have to go to a friend’s house and use her shower because the drain is now frozen. So let’s not thing about that and get onto a more pleasant subject of cooking. Cooking is a challenge when there is no water in the kitchen sink. That’s why I am avoiding having to wash dishes as much as possible. It also means that I have to come up with inventive ideas of how to make dinner.

Yesterday I made a delicious baked potato with chicken. Today I am going to make a grilled hamburger on my George Forman.

That will work because you don’t wash a George Forman grill in the same way as other dishes.

What I will do today is after I cook the hamburger is fill my scrubber brush with water and soap then wipe the grill down with a clean wet paper towel. I will make sure that I put a dish cloth in the tray that catches the grease so the clean up for the tray will be minimal.

The hamburger I will make is from a frozen box of burgers. These burgers are Black Angus and eighty percent fat free. They are well flavored and have cheese and bacon in them.

I will have a green side salad with the hamburger.

That should make a good and filling dinner.

One more day and this will hopefully be over as long as the pipes outside are not busted.

I will be happy when things get back to normal in the kitchen and I can make a big juicy steak with all the trimmings but for now I think I am meeting these challenges well and will come up with one more creative dinner to enjoy until that steak is ready to be cooked!