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vital functions
Feb. 5th, 2023 10:54 pmCelebrating. Today is, according to Facebook, the seventh anniversary of probably-the-first-time-we-used-the-soldering-iron-to-make-crème-brûlée. What even is time.
Reading. ( Dana K. White, Helen Scales, Leone Ross )
Cooking. So many new recipes oh my goodness. As mentioned, I have been on some small culinary adventures. We were delighted with Meera Sohda's winter pilau (comments on the post I link to contain details of what I did to prep it in a rice cooker) and indifferent to her red lentil rasam with roast red cabbage: it used up a red cabbage and was perfectly pleasant but we prefer our standard Things To Do With Lentils recipes. Tonight we had the first of three helpings of the Ottolenghi "cauliflower cake", which A is very into and I am mildly suspicious of.
And also! This morning! We made a small quantity of approximately-bubble-and-squeak, using half a leek and a small quantity of oca and a couple of leaves of kale, and I was actively sad we hadn't made more of it, so that's definitely my new favourite thing to do with this specific brassica.
Eating. The last of our panettone; the Cartmel sticky banana pudding, which we definitely enjoyed, but probably not more than we like the sticky toffee, which is conveniently more readily available.
Exploring. I poked around some bits of town that I had never previously been to, including some excellent wee bits of path around the canal, and very pleasant it was too: nice weather, abruptly CROCUSES EVERYWHERE plus some irises, and Many Splendid Waterfowl.
Making & mending. Fixed! my bike! again! after the local bike clinic human sucked their teeth dubiously and sent me away again.
Growing. ... more like anti-growing? I pulled up a bunch of raspberry canes from the fruit cage (I have lots of the rest of the plot for them!) and put cardboard-and-wool mulch down around most of the jostaberry. There is, as ever, More To Do.
Observing. waterfowl! crocuses! (one of) the allotment fox(es)! more excellent sunsets!
Reading. ( Dana K. White, Helen Scales, Leone Ross )
Cooking. So many new recipes oh my goodness. As mentioned, I have been on some small culinary adventures. We were delighted with Meera Sohda's winter pilau (comments on the post I link to contain details of what I did to prep it in a rice cooker) and indifferent to her red lentil rasam with roast red cabbage: it used up a red cabbage and was perfectly pleasant but we prefer our standard Things To Do With Lentils recipes. Tonight we had the first of three helpings of the Ottolenghi "cauliflower cake", which A is very into and I am mildly suspicious of.
And also! This morning! We made a small quantity of approximately-bubble-and-squeak, using half a leek and a small quantity of oca and a couple of leaves of kale, and I was actively sad we hadn't made more of it, so that's definitely my new favourite thing to do with this specific brassica.
Eating. The last of our panettone; the Cartmel sticky banana pudding, which we definitely enjoyed, but probably not more than we like the sticky toffee, which is conveniently more readily available.
Exploring. I poked around some bits of town that I had never previously been to, including some excellent wee bits of path around the canal, and very pleasant it was too: nice weather, abruptly CROCUSES EVERYWHERE plus some irises, and Many Splendid Waterfowl.
Making & mending. Fixed! my bike! again! after the local bike clinic human sucked their teeth dubiously and sent me away again.
Growing. ... more like anti-growing? I pulled up a bunch of raspberry canes from the fruit cage (I have lots of the rest of the plot for them!) and put cardboard-and-wool mulch down around most of the jostaberry. There is, as ever, More To Do.
Observing. waterfowl! crocuses! (one of) the allotment fox(es)! more excellent sunsets!