Small inconveniences
May. 19th, 2021 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartOr not so small ones if your life is mostly filled with domestic duties.
Yesterday we accidentally found a gift card for Lidl, which we managed to totally forget about. I took it with me to my food run and it turned out still valid. So I splurged a bit, buying new potatoes and asparagus, which are only seconded price-wise by gold and platinum right now. I planned a glorious meal for today, with asparagus, ham, baked potatoes and perhaps even cheese sauce. And I wanted to bake a banana cake to use up some eggs and bananas.
Well... the best laid plans of mice and men, as they say... Mum and I've managed to knock our stomach out simultaneously. I'll spare you the details. Let's just say that the night was spent with ferocious fights for the privilege of occupying the loo for as long as necessary, and leave it there.
So, today we were back to toast, black coffee, Apfelkompott and the likes. I pre-cooked my beloved asparagus and froze it, even though it's a heresy not to eat them fresh. But it was either that or let them dry out in the fridge until we'll get back to normal eating, and that would have been a criminal waste.
I also bought another box of those stone hard, watery and sour Spanish strawberries, because a pound of them cost some 700 Ft (that would be our national currency, roughly 360 of them being worth a single Euro, so that you can get the perspective), while half a pound of the supposedly ripe local ones would have cost 900 Ft. Or so. You can imagine that the choice wasn't a hard one. Especially as the strawberries weren't to have at Lidl, where I might have used the gift card to buy them.
So I made some more strawberry jam today, which is okay, since we love it. On days when we can eat normally, that is. After that, I baked that banana cake, as Grandma's sponge recipe doesn't contain any fat and we decided that we can risk it. And I baked the new potatoes in the oven, which only took, oh, an hour and a half or so, and we ate them a la nature, with only a little salt, because, as mentioned before, anything fat-like would have been a bad idea.
The good things of the day:
My upside-down banoffe cake (inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
noadvertising) actually turned out well:
My friend Evie called today and promised to drop by tomorrow with some freshly picked spinach from her garden. I don't think I'm up to spinach yet, but Mum was very happy, and since she's in a better shape, I think I might cook it for her.
One of our righteously offended politicians (from the govt party, of course) made the idiotic announcement: "If other countries won't accept our vaccination, we won't accept theirs, either!"
Really, people, WTF? Are we all in kindergarten here?
Firstly, it isn't our vaccination. It was developed by the Russians and the Chinese, and you can't hear them making stupid declarations, can you?
Secondly, everyone knows that our glorious govt would accept anyone, as long as they bring enough money into the country, which they then can put into their own pockets. The whole circus with the migrants has shown that.
Thirdly, does Mr. Semjén really believe that any of the mentioned countries would give a flying f*ck whether we accepted their vaccinations or not? He and his cronies have destroyed our reputation beyond repair, so why should anyone care what we accept and what we don't?
BTW, this is the same guy who rode into formerly Hungarian towns in Transylvania on a white horse. If the whole thing weren't so tragic, one could laugh hysterically whenever he opens his mouth.
Yesterday we accidentally found a gift card for Lidl, which we managed to totally forget about. I took it with me to my food run and it turned out still valid. So I splurged a bit, buying new potatoes and asparagus, which are only seconded price-wise by gold and platinum right now. I planned a glorious meal for today, with asparagus, ham, baked potatoes and perhaps even cheese sauce. And I wanted to bake a banana cake to use up some eggs and bananas.
Well... the best laid plans of mice and men, as they say... Mum and I've managed to knock our stomach out simultaneously. I'll spare you the details. Let's just say that the night was spent with ferocious fights for the privilege of occupying the loo for as long as necessary, and leave it there.
So, today we were back to toast, black coffee, Apfelkompott and the likes. I pre-cooked my beloved asparagus and froze it, even though it's a heresy not to eat them fresh. But it was either that or let them dry out in the fridge until we'll get back to normal eating, and that would have been a criminal waste.
I also bought another box of those stone hard, watery and sour Spanish strawberries, because a pound of them cost some 700 Ft (that would be our national currency, roughly 360 of them being worth a single Euro, so that you can get the perspective), while half a pound of the supposedly ripe local ones would have cost 900 Ft. Or so. You can imagine that the choice wasn't a hard one. Especially as the strawberries weren't to have at Lidl, where I might have used the gift card to buy them.
So I made some more strawberry jam today, which is okay, since we love it. On days when we can eat normally, that is. After that, I baked that banana cake, as Grandma's sponge recipe doesn't contain any fat and we decided that we can risk it. And I baked the new potatoes in the oven, which only took, oh, an hour and a half or so, and we ate them a la nature, with only a little salt, because, as mentioned before, anything fat-like would have been a bad idea.
The good things of the day:
My upside-down banoffe cake (inspired by
noadvertising) actually turned out well:My friend Evie called today and promised to drop by tomorrow with some freshly picked spinach from her garden. I don't think I'm up to spinach yet, but Mum was very happy, and since she's in a better shape, I think I might cook it for her.
One of our righteously offended politicians (from the govt party, of course) made the idiotic announcement: "If other countries won't accept our vaccination, we won't accept theirs, either!"
Really, people, WTF? Are we all in kindergarten here?
Firstly, it isn't our vaccination. It was developed by the Russians and the Chinese, and you can't hear them making stupid declarations, can you?
Secondly, everyone knows that our glorious govt would accept anyone, as long as they bring enough money into the country, which they then can put into their own pockets. The whole circus with the migrants has shown that.
Thirdly, does Mr. Semjén really believe that any of the mentioned countries would give a flying f*ck whether we accepted their vaccinations or not? He and his cronies have destroyed our reputation beyond repair, so why should anyone care what we accept and what we don't?
BTW, this is the same guy who rode into formerly Hungarian towns in Transylvania on a white horse. If the whole thing weren't so tragic, one could laugh hysterically whenever he opens his mouth.
