20-20 Hindsight

I'm getting back into the rhythm of cooking for myself, after a semester devoted to frozen dinners and scrap meals. Last week, I made a pot of chicken noodle soup, which turned out well despite one major blunder in the cooking process.

The soup called for 3/4 lb. of boneless skinless chicken thighs. Unfortunately, the smallest package I could find at Schnuck's was a pound and a half. So, I took half of it for the recipe, and piled the rest into a Tupperware container, which I labeled and put into the freezer - where I saw the *other* labeled container holding 3/4 lb. of chicken thighs. (This was not the blunder, about which I'll say no more.) (The other one dates from January, so it's not too bad.)

This week, I'll be making a batch of spicy chicken/sausage soup. It calls for a pound and a half of chicken, which, as it happens, I have in the freezer.

Only Four

There's a meme going around, which asks participants to name five singers or groups that they have seen in concert and one that they have not, and to challenge their readers to identify the phony.

I can only come up with four: Carpenters, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers, and Roberta Flack. [OK, that's five *names*, but Dolly and Kenny were the same concert.)

Now, if we count filkers, I could add quite a few more: Roberta Rogow, Blind Lemming Chiffon, Uffington Horse, Wild Mercy, Tom Smith, Mary Crowell, Kathleen Sloan, Kathy Mar, Tricky Pixie, and probably others that I'm forgetting. But it probably wouldn't be fair to include them.