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My around the corner neighbor Kathy has been thinking of going into a sort of personal-chef/meals for busy working women business. She asked me what I thought – what sort of market, what would they want. Now that whole concept fills my thoughts. I keep thinking of opening MY frig and finding tasty, healthy food there, in small one or two meal portions. A couple things in the freezer ready to microwave. Good food, wandering around in comfort-food-land. The food you want to eat, if only it didn’t take cutting up a lot of things and cooking it for awhile. Food which fulfills your wish to really eat healthy if only the food you bought didn’t keep going bad from neglect.

I’ve made soup twice in the last week and a half or so. I LOVE cooking in quantity, which is totally pointless when you’re basically cooking for one. Yes, I could freeze it, but I’d still have to eat it quite a few times. I’m getting better at packing things like that for lunch and making that my main meal of the day. A big bowl of the veggie lentil soup (see below) today, along with a nice turkey sandwich. I was very satisfied.

What sort of things would be nice to find in the frig or freezer? I long for mac and cheese with chunks of whole canned tomatoes. Or how about a nice scalloped potato cassserole – could be with meat or not. Chicken pot pies with tender carrots and peas in a yummy gravy. A nice piece of chicken parm with some pasta and sauce. A small loaf of carrot or banana bread. See the key here is easy and or quick to re-heat or put on the table, a nice variety of food – maybe enough left over for lunch tomorrow. A reasonable dessert but not a whole bag of cookies that calls to you to complete. Throw some frozen veggies into the microwave, put it all on the table.

What intrigues me about all this isn’t the business concept but the fact that it’s not my idea, it’s not something I’m likely to ever be involved in but I’m more than willing to turn over a big chunk of my brain to it. Nothing like a new project to get my teeth into – it’s an excitement whether or not it’s mine to execute or not. Takes my mind off the same ol’ same ol’ I guess!