Gravy

The other day we were rushing about for whatever reason I do not even recall now, and I had to come up with a good, quick meal for the boys that was healthy and easy to throw together. A few days before this I'd made turkey noodle soup for them, and there was still a half jar (about 250ml) of canned turkey in the fridge that was left over from it, so I wanted to use it up whatever I did. It was canned up at Christmas just passed, from the leftovers. While thinking about that fact, I recalled that I'd also canned up a fantastic turkey organ gravy. I put two-and-two together and a great idea popped into my head.

So I dug through the cupboard and came out with a few different forms of pasta - whole wheat penne, whole wheat rotini, and some regular elbow macaroni. Combined it was about two and a half cups. It was only in hindsight after I'd had them all in the post of boiling water, when I realised I should have cooked the whole wheat ones for about 5 minutes before adding the non whole wheat elbow macaroni. So I cooked it all about 13 minutes and the elbows were a little overdone, and the rest of it a little underdone. No big deal, really.

Today before Aikido #1 son asked if we could go to the chip truck for poutine if he was good in class. I reminded him that I don't have a job and so we don't have money, but I did offer to make him poutine even if he were not good in Aikido! So we stopped at Loeb on the way home and bought some potatoes. Oh, and my applause to both of the boys for understanding that me not having a job means we don't have money for stuff. I was actually laughing as he several times at Loeb ran over to something yummy-looking on the shelf and pointed at it, and hollered across to me very loudly "Popo, look, if you get a job maybe we can buy some of this?". It really was hilarious!