The week of woes - Day Four
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wiseheartToday was quite stressful. I made a food run relatively early in the morning because both Aldi and Lidl bring out the new sales on Thursday, and I wanted to actually get my share of the wares with reduced price. So I bought potatoes - and isn't it just ridiculous that you have to jump at the chance to buy something as mundane as potatoes for an acceptable price? - apples, a cucumber, tomatoes, cheesy rolls and the likes. I also bought cherries, although they were not reduced, but the season is so short, and we both like them so much!
When I came home, I started preparing stuff for the cooking. I was about to make Mary Berry's Panang chicken stir-fry, which is a quick and easy recipe when you've reached the stage of the actual cooking, but it requires a lot of preparation. You have to cook the rice in advance, to grate the courgette, to peel and chop the mushrooms and the tomatoes, to cut up the meat... The original recipe asks for courgette and celery but Mum can't eat celery even cooked, it's too hard for her. So I always use whatever veggies come my way; I've already made it with cauliflower, with asparagus, with green beans, with carrots... it never gets boring.
Afterwards, we had a visit from our talkative chiropodist lady, which lasted about two and a half hours. Unfortunately, she still hasn't mastered the task of working and talking at the same time. So I cooked lunch while she was working on Mum, and even had a nice, 42+minute phone call with my friend Alex, and in the end we had lunch at half past 4, which is definitely a little late, but sometimes the time runs away from you.
We're still navigating between water-filled bottles and pots, and tomorrow will be the same. We'll have a break during the weekend, and then on Monday everything starts anew. *sigh* I'm sick and tired of the flat looking like a refugee camp for weeks every summer.
Given the day I had, not much happened in the creative area. I've cut out about a dozen faces for the Christmas felt project, but that was it, basically. Not even a crossword puzzle could be squeezed in-between the housewife-y activities. But I have high hopes for tomorrow. All I'll have to do is to bake a cheesecake in the morning and make a Tütensuppe for lunch... or so I hope.
When I came home, I started preparing stuff for the cooking. I was about to make Mary Berry's Panang chicken stir-fry, which is a quick and easy recipe when you've reached the stage of the actual cooking, but it requires a lot of preparation. You have to cook the rice in advance, to grate the courgette, to peel and chop the mushrooms and the tomatoes, to cut up the meat... The original recipe asks for courgette and celery but Mum can't eat celery even cooked, it's too hard for her. So I always use whatever veggies come my way; I've already made it with cauliflower, with asparagus, with green beans, with carrots... it never gets boring.
Afterwards, we had a visit from our talkative chiropodist lady, which lasted about two and a half hours. Unfortunately, she still hasn't mastered the task of working and talking at the same time. So I cooked lunch while she was working on Mum, and even had a nice, 42+minute phone call with my friend Alex, and in the end we had lunch at half past 4, which is definitely a little late, but sometimes the time runs away from you.
We're still navigating between water-filled bottles and pots, and tomorrow will be the same. We'll have a break during the weekend, and then on Monday everything starts anew. *sigh* I'm sick and tired of the flat looking like a refugee camp for weeks every summer.
Given the day I had, not much happened in the creative area. I've cut out about a dozen faces for the Christmas felt project, but that was it, basically. Not even a crossword puzzle could be squeezed in-between the housewife-y activities. But I have high hopes for tomorrow. All I'll have to do is to bake a cheesecake in the morning and make a Tütensuppe for lunch... or so I hope.
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Date: 2022-07-14 08:53 pm (UTC)I did our version of Ree Drummond's Thai chicken, with rice, tonight — it requires chopping the chicken and marinating it in a mixture of lime juice, soy sauce, sesame oil, chopped ginger, and honey, then frying it quickly with veg before adding the marinade back.
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Date: 2022-07-15 03:03 pm (UTC)I know, right?! This is the new normal and may be for quite a while.
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