When all else fails?

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Do.

In my case, on this day, I cook.  I had heard about something called crackslaw, which went by various names and recipes.  To be honest I thought most of them were overdone.  Simplicity, for the most part, is my friend.  Once an occasional is it good to construct something elaborate.  That simply doesn't work on a daily basis and for many reasons.  Although, if work is done ahead of time, layers of flavor can be built and stored for an allowance of minor luxury within simplicity, give or take.

Instead of two or three hours of fussing, and a ingredient list a mile long, I... thought about the main ingredients... that being hamburger and cabbage... and I considered what would add simple easy flavor.  As it turns out, frying hamburger (better to fry in cast iron, in my opinion, and a cast dutch oven better than others... or at least cast with a lid), get it half through, then add chopped cabbage.  Season the hamburger initially as you like.  I prefer a bit of salt, pepper, a small dose of typical italian spices, plus a teaspoon of hot pepper flakes.  After the hamburger is half done, add the cabbage, put the lid over it, and let it finish.  Easy.  Very good.

I have a ton of dishes, again, from this and that.  They have been washed twice and merely need to be rinsed, dried, and put up.  That probably won't happen today.  Not much else was done.  I could barely stay awake.  Then I realized it has cooled enough that I really did need the furnace.  The cave was holding right at 66, where I turn the furnace down to for the summer.  And, while that is fine for night, sleeping, it is simply too cold for daily running... at least as the high.  I've turned it up enough to be awake.  Hopefully turning it up first thing tomorrow might allow me to get on some things.

Later.