On Frozen Cabbage Rolls and Aging Gracelessly. #Louis.

Colby cheese that thinks it is old chedar.

Louis Shalako

I walked out to the kitchen, pulled a pan out of the cupboard, set it on the counter. Then I came back and sat in my chair. In a few minutes, I'll go out there and put the frozen cabbage rolls in the pan. Then I will come back here and sit in my chair again. After a while, I will go out there, put that in the oven and possibly crack open a beer--I haven't really decided yet. That leaves all kinds of time to make a salad, slice up some cheese, put a little celery on a highly-polished plate. Trust me, I will get there...

I will get there, ladies and gentlemen.

And I get my exercise, too. Up and down, up and down, up and down. It's better than trying to do it all at once, in some kind of a hurry.

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Today’s Roman brand frozen product is from Giant Tiger, and a dollar off in the weekly flyer. I’ve had it before, and the sauce is nice, light and tangy, not dark, strong and overpowering.

I got the Romaine lettuce at Food Basics, as well as the old cheddar cheese, which turned out to be Colby cheese, somehow wrongly packaged.

I like Romaine, due to the dark green colour of the leaves. I can rinse Romaine, which people seldom do with iceberg lettuce. I rinse it to get any little dark specks of snail-poop off of there, ladies and gentlemen. I cut the centre stem out of two big leaves, rinse them, and then roll them up and cut them first cross-wise, and then turn the knife ninety degrees and chop it the other way…the slice of tomato was perhaps a half-inch thick, which leaves a good bit for cheeseburgers tomorrow or the next day—be that as it may.

The salad is comprised of tomato on the vine, (also on sale), chopped jumbo white onion, and a little bit of leftover green pepper. If you pull out the pepper and it’s beginning to feel a little slimy, it’s time to throw it away, although this one still seems okay.

That will be served with an Italian house dressing, which has herbs, spices and just a touch of parmesan cheese flavour in there. I never keep more than one bottle of salad dressing in the fridge, and the next time it will be something different. Over the course of time, I get to try them all, for better or worse.

My aunt gave me a gift card from Giant Tiger, and I picked up celery, the frozen cabbage rolls, a bag of cat food for the feral and stray cats of Plympton-Wyoming, and package of Voortman’s cookies. These are raspberry turnovers, soft cookies with a gob of stuff in the middle. I haven’t had cookies in years…if I had a half a brain, I’d pick up a litre of milk on the way home from work tomorrow. Or, we can always have cookies and beer.

Other than that, any idiot can microwave some leftover beans. This is just a nice, hearty meal for a rainy day here in southern Ontario, and it didn’t cost too much either.

As I always say, the best revenge lies in eating well. And this is a very nice lunch. 

Best served with beer. This Old Milwaukee Ice is essentially two beers in one can for $3.30. 

And now it's time for a nap, possibly slumped in my chair, aging gracelessly, but not dead yet.

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