{"id":10101,"date":"2020-04-17T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:46:54","slug":"another-pandemic-moment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10101","title":{"rendered":"Another pandemic moment…"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to do when there is nothing to do. Or how to fill your time with nothing. We had Easter dinner on Friday. It’s a tradition. We then eat turkey all weekend. Tonight I will make turkey a la king. The question is what to pour it over. Normally it would be egg noodles, but since we are low on egg noodles – 1\/4 of a bag, we have to get inventive. “What do we have,” asked my husband. ” I don’t know. I don’t do the shopping.”<\/p>\n

Whereupon, he went to the cupboard and produced –<\/p>\n

2 full bags of spaghettini
\n1 full bag of spaghetti
\n2 full bags of penne and a small 1\/4 bag, also of penne
\n1\/2 a bag of macaroni – someone is not making home made KD
\n1\/2 a bag of orzo
\n1 full bag of rice noodles – someone is not making Pho
\n1 full canister of rice
\n1\/2 a canister of both spaghettini and spaghetti mixed together – who did this?<\/p>\n

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I did not mention that we also had 1\/2 a bag of short grain rice and 3\/4 of a bag of brown rice. We also eat potatoes, couscous, polenta…..etc. Obviously we have enough starch in our house to stiffen the upper lip \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So in this virus void, I can now meditate on why we have so much pasta. Make a plan to use it up and maybe think in terms of using up some of the other starches as well. I could make a turkey pho tomorrow and use up the rice noodles, since we’ve found a recipe on-line that uses some ingredients we have. The rest, we’ll just have to fake!<\/p>\n

I think I’ll have to give my husband another guideline when shopping. Right now he’s obviously using, “When in doubt buy pasta.” How about, “When in doubt buy Lysol.” (If you can find it!)<\/p>\n

Have a productive day.<\/p>\n

PS. Did I mention the beans, both dried and canned – OMG!<\/p>\n

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