Daily writing prompt

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

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I cook breakfast most mornings, alternating between some form of eggs with avocado toast and sometimes homemade sausage gravy, and a high-octane oatmeal with blueberries, an apple, cinnamon, banana, and some combination of seeds, mostly sunflower.

There’s only one recipe I have memorized, and that’s a chicken wild rice soup, with a bit of white wine added at the end to kick it up a notch in flavor. We like it because it tastes good and usually leaves leftovers we can use for a couple more meals.

Daily writing prompt

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

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Simple things, mostly– sausage gravy, or a really healthy oatmeal recipe with banana, blueberries, cinnamon, an apple, etc.

In terms of a more involved prep, I’d have to say Chicken Wild Rice Soup, a recipe we found in the 2001 edition of a Taste of Home holiday cook book. I’ve made it so many times that I stopped referring to the recipe years ago. And I seldom use actual wild rice by itself–too expensive. I cheat a bit with two boxes of Uncle Ben’s Original Wild Rice mix, using only about half of one of the included seasoning packets.

I occasionally like to spend time preparing meals. It’s enjoyable, in part because I sip a glass of red or white along the way– like Julia Child always did.