Cooking

I was cooking today. I have a friend who's real skinny, and belong to the kind of people who "forgets to eat". I mean, who can forget that? It's like forgetting to breath if you ask me.

So once in a while I cook him lunchboxes. I do 5-9 portions every time, each neatly labeled and dated. I'm sure it took me like three hours today. It's the shopping, the cooking, the cleaning and so forth.

It made me think about my grandmother. I hardly knew her since she died when I was six, but from my mother I learned that every day she was cooking for seven people. Three times a day. And those were the times when dishwashers weren't available. How did she manage?

And I'm certain we share/d the same feeling. What to cook today? My friend is no friggin help at all. "Surprise me" he says all the time. And when I try to probe, like "what do you like best?", he's just responding "everything is good". Men! No bloody use at all.