MRE's

Hmmm.

This is significantly bigger than the last crab leg. Almost twice as big.

There must be a good three quarters of a pound of meat in that sucker. Or a half pound anyway.

Sam's didn't have the littler claw legs yesterday.

Think I can eat the whoooole thing?

Sure.

See? ALL gone!










And a nice caramelized onion for dessert.

These are MRE's, to me. Like instant, no-work type food. Boil some water, stick the crab leg in there for a bit, nuke a little bowl of whipped butter - yes, it must be whipped, the unwhipped butter is only for baking here in k's kitchen - and there's your dinner. (Nancy! I'm eating my protein here!)

Now please don't get me wrong: you can eat any kind of butter type thing you like. Or none at all. Have at it, seriously. I'm just stating what my own preference is. I really dislike food police.

My sole point is this: be happy in your food choices. You can do that and be healthy in those choices, too. For real.

Okay. The onion?


Since I can't much do the occasional stirring at the stove - not to mention, we don't always like to heat our houses with an hour of stovetop cooking down here - well, recently, I learned how to nuke it instead.

Take that big huge onion, peel, chop (very coarse and sloppy is all you need) and put in a glass bowl with a little salt and olive oil. Cover with plastic wrap or not - I usually do for the first nuke, then remove it. In my microwave it works good by going for 13 minutes, stir, then 8 minutes, stir, then 3 or 4 minutes. Meanwhile, of course, I'm doing other important things. Like eating a crab leg.

That big huge onion melts down to a little tiny bit in the end. It's cute. It doesn't get as brown as it does when I do it on the stovetop. But it's actually even sweeter, and much easier to keep it from burning, using the nuker. Oh, SO tasty!

I really love good food.