Small inconveniences

[wiseheart]

Or 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 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.

Comments

[meathiel]

Oh noes ... hope you both feel better soon.
What do you think caused? Some food gone bad?

I read an article yesterday which stated that with the European vaccination pass or the app they may get, they're also checking into Sinovac and Sputnik. So not all hope is lost yet!

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

So sorry you had tp postpone your glorious meal, but it´s only a pleasure deferred! I hope the two of you will feel better soonest! With strawberries there´s a problem this year. Weather too cold and wet, and what I ferar is that there won´t be enough of it this year to make prices affordable! Your banana cake looks fabulous! Next time I will do it with your recipe! And now I´d love to find something about the politician riding on a white horse in the WWW. Until now I only found an interesting dissertation about some Hungarian painter when using keywords. This one sounds a lot like some members of a party in my country no one wants to hear about...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think if our fearless leader hadn't turned everyone in the EU against us, our pariah status weren't quite so serious. That's what you get when someone's only concern is to remain in power, no matter the costs. Demagoges can cause more harm than outright tyrants sometimes — not the two would be mutually exclusive, as we can see on the example of our mini-Führer.

As for the health problem, I think we had some food stand in the fridge for too long. It wasn't gone bad just yet, at least I couldn't discover anything wrong with it, but, well... no more keeping things in the fridge longer than two days! Lessons learned and all that.

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear you had a bad night and missed the treat.
It's been an internationally bad night.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Guy's name is Semjén or Semlyén, I'm not sure how he writes it, and the town he rode in on a horse is called Kézdivásárhely; or Tirgu Secuiesc, as the Romanians call it. We only picked out this particular idiocy from all the idiocies because we lived in that very town for nine years.

Well, I lived there for nine years. The grandparents got deported there from Brasov (Kronstadt) in 1953 because Grandpa was German (well, German-speaking transylvanian Saxon, but such small differences didn't count back then) and Grandma often had the local priests visiting the house, which also counted as a sin in those times. Their house was confiscated (because, obviously, they were burgoises, although Grandpa merely worked in the Stollwerck factory as a cashier), Mum got thrown out of university for being the offspring of such evil, capitalist people, and they were forced to move from Kronstadt to Kézdivásárhely, whether they wanted or not.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's annoying, we've been looking forward to that meal so much! But there will be other days.
I think there are many bad nights this year; this crazy weather messes up people's sleeping a lot, even without our... err... specific problems right now.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

That must have been hard on your family! Let us hope that times like these will never come again!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. Yes, we lived in rather poetic poverty, which perhaps explains my fixation with prices and such.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Stomach problems are never fun :0( Hope you both feel better soon and can enjoy the good foods you cooked.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, they are not. Especially in these times when cooking and eating are one of the few pleasures left.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Potatoes are expensive?
Also, {{{hugs}}}

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The new ones are, and they've just become awailable again. Fortunately, the price goes down gradually.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

The only good thing about your politicians is that they seem to be on a par with recent ones from other countries. The US just got rid of Trump but we're still left with Boris.
Sorry to hear about your tummy woes. No fun with two people and one bathroom, particularly when one of them is no longer spry. I hope you both start to feel better soon.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

What a shame about the upset tummies, especially when you had such a feast lined up with your unexpected gift card.

The cake looks really yummy.

As for the politicians — honestly sometimes if you don't laugh at them you would certainly cry.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We are feeling better, thanks. It seems to have been one of those 24-hour-toilet runs. I just hope it doesn't turn into the opposite problem, 'cos that isn't fun, either.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We had a somewhat simplified meal today; I added some roasted breadcrumbs and chopped ham to the asparagus and made a couscous as a side dish. It was yummy, but not quite what I originally had in mind.

The cake was yummy indeed, and now it's gone; my friend Evie got the last quarter of it, in exchange for the freshly picked spinach she brought us. Now I'll have to make a colossal Swiss roll tomorrow because we still have too many eggs, and I don't want them to go bad. Fortunately, one needs at least 6 eggs for a proper Swiss roll, but I might make one using 8 eggs... and the rest of the strawberry jam I made last time.

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your stomach bug. That can really be the worst. At least you still have the asparagus to look forward to.
That politician sounds so childish. I actually lil-ed at your description. How do these morons get to be in charge?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because the even bigger morons vote for them?
I'm really scared that our idiot will manage to boot us out of the EU, and this miserable little country really can't manage on its own.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

Stomachproblems are a pain in the rear end and not nice at all. I hope both of you will be well soon.

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

Oh no. That sounds like an aweful feeling. Over here I'm just SO glad we're not under the boot of the Orange One. But also, people here get so worked up. Sure there are serious issues that need to be addressed but we really have e SO MUCH to be tha full for. Like having the right to get worked up and expressing it.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Good.