A bachelor's Easter dinner

[kenmore71]

After spending about 70 hours working at church this week, Westinghouse, with its modern marvel of electric cookery, allowed me to come home to a complete Easter dinner of pork chops, rice and peas!
[this post was last edited: 3/31/2013-14:22]

 

[paulg]

I've always wanted to do that...

We're both busy and I underuse my roaster. I've got the glassware and all...
Thanks for the reminder. Let the electric servants do the work!
Dinner looks great!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Glad you have a great meal cooked electrically!

I'm guessing you took the covers off the rice and peas?
Happy Easter. Enjoy your dinner.

I have been grazing all day on Passover dishes as the holiday winds down. Rarely has the refrigerator contained as many pieces of Corning Ware. Amidst all of the good foods (yes there can be good Passover food) and sweet things, there is the absence of wonderful loved ones who made my life so much richer and who are missed more at special holiday times, but one of the nicer things about dining alone is that there is no one to interrupt the memories, which are all we have now. It is a blessing when memories no longer hurt and I believe it to be a sign of growth that we can be alone with our memories without being lonely. If we did not have the memories, we would have many fewer blessings to count.

 

[kenmore71]

Yes, Tom, I took the covers off the rice and peas, I thought they would photograph better that way!
It is an interesting connection that they peas came from one of my brother's fields for Birds Eye in 2011. I took them from the truck as they were being harvested, brought them home and canned them up in the pressure cooker. It is a way of connecting with family today.

 

[tomturbomatic]

What a nice connection!

Glad you found a way to include your family in your meal.

 

[rp2813]

Mark, you've provided an excellent example of how a roaster is more than just a giant rectangular crock pot, and is a much more versatile appliance.

 

[kenmore71]

I cook in this roaster like this all of the time, especially in the summer. I have a galley kitchen in an old brownstone building. (My kitchen is 7x11) Firing up the gas range in the summertime in this kitchen is like a mini-preview of HELL. The roaster is SO much cooler.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Mark, the first people I knew who had a WH RO had lived in an apartment in Atlanta in the 40s and 50s. It was an old building and they had a screen porch. They had a gas apartment range in the kitchen and, like so many gas apartment ranges at the time, it did not have an oven thermostat. So, to not draw this out, they got the RO to be able to prepare meals in the summer without turning on the stove and heating up the apartment and to have a thermostaically controlled oven year around. Lots of people used to use these the way you do. Many others took them to their summer cabins where it was the only cooking appliance starting in the 1920s when ROs began to be manufactured.