Solar ‘Spairments continued! Using the inverted lid of the pot as an auxiliary cooking vessel is something I have often done. For example, to cook soup in the main pot while doing a grilled-cheese sandwich or quesadilla in the inverted lid.
Today, I did an additional version of the two-tiered cooking thing.
I had a teeny bit of macaroni and a teeny bit of pancake mix (both left to me by a friend/neighbor who moved back to her home state).
So I mixed up the pancake mix in the top, and put the macaroni to boil in the bottom. Cooking is progressing well. I pushed in the round edges of the pancake to make a more uniformly thick square which will hopefully then finish cooking more evenly.
BTW when people move, often they leave behind a lot of food because the food is heavy and/or doesn’t travel well. I particularly feel sad when people of modest means have to leave behind food. We might as well not let it go to waste! It can be used in cooking, or fed to the garden, whichever is appropriate and most needed.
Other valuables I inherited from my friend’s move back to her hometown included numerous bottles of condiments such as a popular brand of barbecue sauce.
We miss our friend and neighbor very much — she was a light of the neighborhood and always wanting to feed people — but she seems happy in her new-old place, with family and childhood friends nearby. And we are keeping in touch by phone and text.