Food, glorious food
As you all know, nisaba cannot chew, and is unlikely to regain the ability to chew for 6-8 weeks, and that could be an optimistic prognosis. I thought I'd update you on how it's going from my side... It upsets me to see Peta struggling to eat, and that she occasionally has to watch from the sidelines as I tuck into something she'd enjoy - while I'm going for the solidarity approach in the main, I do have to ensure I stay well-fed, if only so Peta doesn't have to put up with a grumpy partner in addition to everything else.
Peta has been managing to cater for herself, not least by making herself smoothies. To my minor shame, after I'd brought her home from having her wisdom teeth removed under general anaesthetic early this afternoon, she was the one looking after me, making me brunch (I hadn't quite got around to it).
I'm enjoying the culinary challenge - I've got myself an 'I can't chew' cookbook, and a blender, and my mission is to use them both to extremes. The Americanisms of the recipes are easily countered - I just roast sweet potatoes, rather than open a can, and use fresh broccoli rather than frozen, we actually have cup measures in various sizes (fractional rather than decimal, obviously). I've attempted a few - the cheesy ham and potato bake and velvet chicken soup have been particular favourites of mine from the book, and while I was dubious about the Southern sweet potatoes, Peta was eating it for days (which was apparently a good sign).
I think the most fun is attempting to adapt existing favourites into Peta-friendly recipes - broccoli and stilton pasta bake has become mashed broccoli and stilton sauce bake. Tomorrow I'm going to let my blender loose on carbonara, and Sunday I'm going to attempt chicken with a can of beer up its arse, with all the (mashed) trimmings - a culinary challenge I'm looking forward to even more than the time I did Christmas Dinner for 12 served on paper plates with plastic cutlery.
In general, the fruit section of the supermarkets and Covent Garden Soup Company will probably be the major beneficiaries, but we're not letting this get to us. Hey, it's an adventure of sorts.
If anyone has any exciting non-chew recipes (think roast squash, roast sweet potatoes, mashed stuff), let us know please!
Right, probably time to remove the broccoli and stilton sauce bake from the oven...
Peta has been managing to cater for herself, not least by making herself smoothies. To my minor shame, after I'd brought her home from having her wisdom teeth removed under general anaesthetic early this afternoon, she was the one looking after me, making me brunch (I hadn't quite got around to it).
I'm enjoying the culinary challenge - I've got myself an 'I can't chew' cookbook, and a blender, and my mission is to use them both to extremes. The Americanisms of the recipes are easily countered - I just roast sweet potatoes, rather than open a can, and use fresh broccoli rather than frozen, we actually have cup measures in various sizes (fractional rather than decimal, obviously). I've attempted a few - the cheesy ham and potato bake and velvet chicken soup have been particular favourites of mine from the book, and while I was dubious about the Southern sweet potatoes, Peta was eating it for days (which was apparently a good sign).
I think the most fun is attempting to adapt existing favourites into Peta-friendly recipes - broccoli and stilton pasta bake has become mashed broccoli and stilton sauce bake. Tomorrow I'm going to let my blender loose on carbonara, and Sunday I'm going to attempt chicken with a can of beer up its arse, with all the (mashed) trimmings - a culinary challenge I'm looking forward to even more than the time I did Christmas Dinner for 12 served on paper plates with plastic cutlery.
In general, the fruit section of the supermarkets and Covent Garden Soup Company will probably be the major beneficiaries, but we're not letting this get to us. Hey, it's an adventure of sorts.
If anyone has any exciting non-chew recipes (think roast squash, roast sweet potatoes, mashed stuff), let us know please!
Right, probably time to remove the broccoli and stilton sauce bake from the oven...