Efficiency or Laziness?

It’s just me and Shay at home right now. She has been showing her despair in missing her other people by lying by the door looking longingly outside for them to return. She is so despondent she has hardly asked to be fed. I wish that is what happened to me while I am waiting for my people to return.

I have done my best to stay out of the kitchen by locking myself in the sweat shop and working on my mother’s quilt. It helps that I am binge watching Big Little Lies. I know, I must be the only person who has not watched it yet. I just was waiting for the Golden Globes to confirm that it was truly worthy of my quilt binge watching.

Eventually I had to give into hunger and make myself some dinner. I have been working my way through leftovers so that Russ does not feel compelled to only eat old food when he comes home. I was having a curried cauliflower and kale soup that I made yesterday, but I felt I needed some serious protein to go with it. Tired of my standby chicken thighs that were already cooked I pulled a piece of salmon out of the freezer and sautéed it up.

Since I was having a bowl of soup I didn’t want to dirty another plate for just my salmon so I ate it right out of the pan. It made perfect sense to me, but then I got to wondering if this was really efficient or the height of laziness? I justified it by telling myself that I was actually eating a real meal sitting down at the bar, rather than just eating something over the sink. I further enforced my decision when I realized that the pan kept my fish hotter longer than if I had moved the hot fish to a cold plate to eat it.

I could have put the fish in my soup bowl, but I worried I would spill my soup. Either way I had a healthy and well balanced meal and was quite happy when it was over and it took me 20 seconds to clean up. Yeah I know it would have only taken 21 seconds if I had another plate to put in the dishwasher. I’m just a professional at justifying things.

I promise I am not going to take this plan any further and eat my cereal out of the box with milk poured in. I never liked those little Kellogg’s boxes where you could carefully cut on the dotted line and turn the box into your serving bowl. It took way longer to carefully cut and not pierce the plastic liner. That is less efficient than using a bowl and I’m all about efficiency.