March 2025 In My Kitchen

Posted on by Astrid

Hi everyone. I enjoyed the linky last month, so am participating in In My Kitchen again.

As regular readers of my blog will know, I don’t have my own kitchen because I live in an institution. We also usually get our dinners from a meal delivery service. Last month, I shared that I was hoping to do some more cooking in March. Guess what? I cooked dinner for myself and my fellow residents twice this past month.

First, on March 5, I cooked pasta with pesto, chicken and broccoli. My spouse joked after seeing the picture that the pine nuts were on sale. In reality, I hadn’t originally planned to sprinkle the pasta with pine nuts but my staff had loads of them, originally intended for her parrots, who don’t even really like them or that’s what she said.

A little over a week later, I cooked pasta again. This time, I included shrimp, lots of garlic, peppers, a few packages of mixed veg and, because according to me this was too little for ten people, a few bell peppers too. I needn’t have worried, because everyone had enough to eat and there were still a few servings left to go in the freezer.

I also made a few smoothies using my blender. Unfortunately, last week I found out that, somehow, the ring-shaped thingy that keeps the blades in place, had broken. I erroneously thought this meant the entire blender should be discarded. Yesterday, my spouse and I went to the electronics store and bought a new one, actually I believe it’s the same one I had. I also recently learned that I can actually make more smoothie with my blender than I used to think. After all, when you fill up the blender with fruit, veg or whatever you’re blending, you shouldn’t fill it up fully. Until recently, I however thought that this means you’re left with only, say, half the blender’s content of smoothie and that’s it. I never realized that you can add more food once the blender has finished blending some of its contents. Stupid, I know, but oh well.

In other kitchen-related news, my assigned staff has told me that she’ll add a weekly cooking activity into my day schedule. I don’t yet know when this is going to happen, but I did hear that my one-on-one support has been approved until the end of 2026 again. Yay!

19 thoughts on “March 2025 In My Kitchen”

  3. That is a good tip about the smoothie blender – which I will try with my new one I bought for my holiday at the end of the month. And so amazing to cook for 10 people, even if on a limited basis. The pine nuts sound like an extravagant bird treat, but perfect for your pasta 🙂

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    1. Thanks for your lovely comment. As for the pine nuts, the birds didn’t even really like them, so I think my staff wasted her money on them if not using them for my pasta. I happen to love them though.

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    1. Thank you. As for the pine nuts, I don’t know whether you ran the image through a description app, but Be My Eyes did actually say that the pasta was abundantly sprinkled with pine nuts. That, I thought was funny.

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  5. Both meals are lovely, but of course the shrimp dish looks to be quite special! Nicely done. I applaud your desire to cook, it is, what keeps us creative…

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