[Sca-cooks] OT- Woe is me!

[Jim and Andi]

What an awful day! I hope everyone heals well!

I made most of the baby food for my kids, try these ideas...

Bake a sweet potato and mash with cinnamon and a little butter
Cream of wheat made with almond milk, coconut milk, or make with regular
milk and add pecan meal or ground walnuts and brown sugar
rice pudding made the same way (really really yummy made with coconut milk
and a little ground cardamom)
there's also apple-parsnip puree, which I have actually served at dinner
parties as a soup with sour cream and chives

I hope this gives you a place to start!
Madhavi

-----Original Message-----
From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Glenda Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 5:03 PM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT- Woe is me!


Hi All,

5th of February will always be commemorated in my house as Broken Robinson's
Day!

At 10 am, I broke my arm ice skating - while practically stopped, I reached
for the side and missed, coming down on my outstretched arm (left arm - I'm
left handed), blowing a goodly bit of the head off the radius. Had to get
Wayne to come home from work and get me from a couple of suburbs away and
bring me home.

Later that day, I got a call saying that Andrew, our 12yo, had been hit by a
car on the crossing near his school. It's an 80km/h zone. Thankfully he'd
only been clipped and spun, but his two front teeth were knocked out. We
found one at the scene and one later at the hospital in his clothing. He's
had them replaced, and wired, and the hospital dental clinic people think
they'll take OK. He's got lacerations and contusions on his face, one knee
and one hand, but hasn't lost his sick sense of humour!

The driver saw him and nearly missed him, he had started on the crossing
when it said walk - the don't walk started flashing shortly after, so he
rushed, with his umbrella up, in the rain. We think the flashing cycle must
be way too short for the road it's on (4 lanes, one turning bay and two wide
shoulders), and it went off before he was across. There was a truck stopped
at the lights, and the driver saw the green, but not Andrew, and Andrew
hadn't noticed the red light stop flashing.

I'm so glad he's still alive - I'd always known something was going to
happen to him, so if this is it, it's over now, and he has made it through!

My arm has been referred onto an Orthopaedic Surgeon, who has referred me to
a elbow specialist, and some time over the next 8 days or so, I'm going to
have it opened up, the bone shards taken out of my joint, and the bone
pinned, which will probably involve a hospital stay somewhere in the city (I
live an hour to 2 hours out, depending on traffic)

Now for the cooking bit:
<insert sobs here> I can't cook Andrew the soft foods needed for his teeth!
I can't chop or peel with only my off hand! It's very depressing for me, but
I've enlisted Wayne, who doesn't like cooking much, but will play with
knives, as my assistant. So far I've made mashed potato with grated Romano
cheese, mashed carrots, and partially mashed peas, and got out some chicken
& pumpkin soup that I make in large batches and freeze. Am going to do some
apple-sauce, some custards and mousses, and some smooth scrambled eggs over
the next days, and porridge is a good thing too. I've single-handedly made
some jelly (US jello) for him, and some Milo milk (chocolate vitamin drink),
but I needed help even with that (can't open the press-top tin with one
hand!).

Anyone else got some good ideas for soft foods that are fairly plain (his
palate's not strong on herbs and spices as yet), that can be cooked by a
one-handed cook, and an assistant?

Glenda
(typing with one hand)

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