Hello to all hungry Kossacks. Welcome to another edition of The Depressed Kitchen where your friend MaKettle tries to fix satisfying, kid friendly, cheap food and maintain sanity and a positive bank balance. To do this I look into my rather large cookbook collection with publication dates ranging from 1916 to today, along with input from Grandma Kettle who was a child of the Great Depression.
For those of you following the diaries, Grandma is much better this week. She is not yet fully recovered from her surgery of a few weeks ago, but has started showering on her own and is definately eating better. As far as my own situation is concerned I have heard good news on the job front. It looks like my part time employer, (as opposed to my full time employer, it takes 3 incomes to keep the Kettle's above water), has plenty of work for me in the Summer. Hopefully we can build up a cushion so that there won't be anymore hungry months this year. What the fall semester holds is still up in the air. Pa believe's that the new budget and stimulus will help to hire more teachers here. I hope he is right. I am usually the optimist in our marriage, but this time the tables are turned.
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