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One of my favorite camping meals is spaghetti con vongole, which is very easy to make with dried pasta, canned minced clams, bottled clam juice and fresh lemon. This is, of course, assuming that you also have olive oil, garlic, chili flakes and white wine.

You can make lots of variations of this meal with other non-perishables...like canned tuna, canned chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, canned veg, marinated artichoke hearts, a hunk of parm or other cheese that doesn't really need refrigeration....

This reminds me of a wonderful man called Leo Buscaligia who many years ago wrote about how his Italian mother would always bring food on airplanes. This was seriously frowned upon and, back in whitebreadAmerica, her cooking was, well, not the usual fare. But then she'd pull out delicious smelling things like lemon and rosemary chicken and, because she always had enough to share, suddenly she was very popular with her fellow passengers.

I would have LOVED this bedroom when I was a kid.

I was alone after hip replacement surgery a few months ago and I filled my freezer with a ton of stuff because I wouldn't be able to do any shopping or actual cooking. These were all easy to reheat either on the stove, in the oven or the microwave...

-Bean and rice burritos, wrapped in foil.
-Different kinds of soups, like mushroom, onion, tomato, frozen flat in quart ziplocs
-Mini quiches and salmon cakes baked in muffin tins, frozen individually, then put in big ziploc bag.
-Two kinds of braised chicken thighs, lemon/thyme and red chile, servings in quart ziplocs
-I also had a few bags of frozen vegetables, like green beans and peas.

Plus, blueberry and apple/cinnamon sugar muffins.
-Apple turnovers
-Chocolate chip cookie dough frozen in balls, ready to bake.

I don't usually eat muffins and cookies, etc., but I knew it was going to be healthier for me to have a few sweet comfort foods available in case I really wanted them. They really helped. In fact, I think it was very healing, in many ways, to just bake 1 or 2 cookies. It was something I could easily do...bake preformed cookie dough...and my home felt a little more cozy filled with the aroma of chocolate. Warm cookies = quicker healing.

Also, I would suggest making and freezing more meals that you think you're going to need while you're laid up. I found that even when I was more mobile and feeling better, I didn't really want to expend any new-found energy on preparing and cooking and cleaning up. The food I made lasted me several weeks and I was really happy to have it

Best wishes to you on your surgery!

I want to go to there.

The love and attention you put into this space are evident. Such a great job in such a small place.

The adage "money can't buy taste" comes to mind.

I could easily live here and be very happy.

Love this SO much.

Beautiful!