Thanks Seppolini, I could make that, in fact it sounds like something I would like to cook in the kitchen some day.
As for the rest of you, I would happy if any of you were getting a new kitchen, less the flooding part, I would not be happy if that happened to someone else. See it is all regional, oftentimes I read a post of someone having a surplus of something that I can't even get and if I could, it would be incredibly expensive. Rather than thinking ill of the person with the surplus, I think that must be wonderful to have too many rasberrys or to live somewhere where buying too many beets is economically possible. Or to live in a place where you can just go to the fish and chip shop if you don't have a kitchen (yes, Hawaii really does not have fish and chip shops). Even the stuff many of you can grow in your gardens is nothing short of amazing to me.
Again, my kitchen was destroyed and I simply asked for an idea of an easy one pot meal that did not require too much propane to cook (takes 24 hours for a re-fill) or too much washing of vegetables. If I were the rich elite snob I am being accused of being, I would simple eat out every night. As for #7 picking on my cat: house fills with water/big noisy pumps come in/house smells strange/strange men come in with power tools and make lots of noise/men leave/family runs noisy power tools/dry wall dust on everything, including cat...yes this is difficult for the cat.
Gosh, from the response I got you would have thought that I said "I like Foie Gras and I think it should be required on the school lunch menu."
"As for #7 picking on my cat...yes this is difficult for the cat."
I wasn't picking on yer cat, just making a joke about yer use of language - ie. "terriorized cat".
"where's your sympathy". Kez, maybe it's just that this stuff of OP doesn't cross the Atlantic well (just maybe) but: "we are in week five of a kitchen remodel" will not elicit sympathy or even empathy.
(Perhaps not least cos the rest of the planet looks on in utter dismay at the US use of fossil fuel and what it's prepared to do at present to secure it.)
Yes, it has been five weeks, but that is not five weeks of happy carpenters working away--one tradespersons does their part and then we wait a few days until the next tradesperson's schedule has them at our house and the cycle goes one. Except for the guy who came to measure for the counters on Tuesday we have not seen a tradesperson in a week. There is about a day more of work before the counters go in, then a few more days of actual work, but from different tradespeople who have to come in a specific order. In all, this five weeks have involves less than 10 days of actual work, but still equals five weeks of no kitchen so far and probably two more to go.
That said, thank you to everyone who offered helpful ideas and I still envy (in a good way) those of you who live in places where you have abundant fruits and vegetables from your gardens.
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OK I now understand the 5 weeks and my heart goes out to you. Folk round here flooded a couple of years ago and because of the construction methods and our climate they had to move out of their houses for 6 to 9 months.
Ah, I get it now, only five weeks, I need to live in a travel trailer for six months to get a Brit to give me a menu suggestion without a caustic remark as a side dish. I need to suffer more for you guys to offer a receipe. Never mind, we went out and had a fabulous Thai dinner at Siam Palace on Nimitz Highway, I highly recommend it should you ever find yourself in Honolulu.
ian and tonya blow goats (har har).
a nice honey, olive oli, cider vinegar with roasted crushed white pepper, cardomon, coriander seed dressing will lift a tuna salad
I sympathise with Mignon...getting a kitchen refitted is a nightmare...not that I've had it done personally but I've had builders around since July re-pointing my house and paving my small backyard. I reckon builders anywhere in the world have the same lax habits of only turning up for work when they feel like it. It's now November and I'm still waiting for the finishing touches to my house. At first I worred that my cat might get out onto the scaffolding (4 storeys high) but he had more sense.
Anyway, OP, I'd cook more soups which are easy to prepare. From what I know of slow-cookers they're an excellent idea...just put in all the ingredients and turn it on...I appreciate it might be hard to buy it in Hawaii.
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