Cooking with MS?

 
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:59 am    Post subject: Cooking with MS? Reply with quote

Back when I did something like real cooking, I found that some things that needed chopping or slicing could be done hours ahead of time or even the day before and kept refrigerated in sealed plastic bags: bell pepper, onion, mushrooms, tomatoes, carrots, celery, etc. Bananas and apples and pears--no. Berries and grapes can be fixed up well in advance (washed, etc.).

Meat for a stew (back when I ate or served meat) can be done this way unless it's ground of course, and even then you can measure out the amount you need and keep it in a separate plastic bag.

Then a lot of things are all ready to go by the time you're assembling the thing. Cheese cubes or slices can also be ready in advance.

I would make a recipe for 6-12 servings and eat one of the servings that day and freeze all the rest in individual plastic containers. They maintain their quality for 2 months usually.

I made bread using recipes for two or three loaves, sliced and froze most of it, and it lasted for a couple of months.

Each of these projects would take pretty much the whole day, and so I planned my time so I didn't have much else to do that day. If it was going to be hot, I postponed the job or arranged for fans to be strategically located so I could frequent cool-down periods.

I'd rest in my wheelchair every chance I got, and sometimes I moved a job out to the living room on a rolling table so I could do it in my wheelchair, which didn't fit well in the kitchen.

I'd bring my cutting board and knife and assorted vegetables or fruits that I needed to work on and sit there and work on them, with a baggie for the peelings and seeds and other waste.

Just sitting down for as much of it as I could helped a lot.

The trick is to have enough energy left over after the cooking is done so you can do the clean-up.

Sometimes I was tempted to shove all the dirty dishes into the stove or refrigerator and let them wait until the next day but the place I lived in was inclined to have pests--so I didn't do that but some people might want to take the chance.

Others would get an automatic dishwasher but that wasn't a possibility.
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