Still on with the slave labour
Aug. 13th, 2022 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWe had laundry day. Because Saturday is always laundry day.
I cooked for two days in advance. It's a layered dish of green beans, rice and mincemeat, with a sauce of creme freche and yogurt. The good thing is: you can cook all the ingredients, layer them in a fire proof dish and put the whole thing into the fridge. On the next day, you take it out, pour the sauce over it and bake it in the oven. We make this with all sorts of vegetables over here, from coleslaw through beans and courgettes to cauliflower. Yum!
Since I was in the kitchen already, I also made banana bread, to eat with the leftover tomato soup for lunch.
And while the banana bread was in the oven, I thawed out the freezer, which was long overdue. My poor thumb that was scraped and burnt in the last two days, respectively, got scraped again, because some idiot thought it a good idea to equip the inside of the freezer with extremely sharp grating. Perhaps a pre-emptive move against food thieves? In any case, every time I'm scraping the ice off the grid, I scrape some skin off my hands, too. *sigh*
Then we had lunch and after that it was time to empty Louise the Elder (=our washing machine) and hang up the freshly washed clothes, etc. By then I was fairly dead on my feet. It's a good thing that Mum volunteers to do the washing-up quite often - practically every day, in fact. Even if I have to secretly re-wash things afterwards because her eyesight just isn't what it used to be.
Still, I managed to squeeze in some crafting while vegetating in front of the telly after all that. I've stitched together the white and black front panels of my penguins and equipped them with fairly oversized, shockingly orange beaks. Their feet will have the same colour; the trial piece actually looks very funny.
So, that was today. Tomorrow I'll have to go to Aldi very early (right when they open, if I can) because they'll have pistachios and macadamia nuts, which usually only happens before Christmas, and even then only for a very short time. I tried to rearrange the freezer to make room for them but basically failed. Let's hope they'll keep in the normal fridge, too.
I cooked for two days in advance. It's a layered dish of green beans, rice and mincemeat, with a sauce of creme freche and yogurt. The good thing is: you can cook all the ingredients, layer them in a fire proof dish and put the whole thing into the fridge. On the next day, you take it out, pour the sauce over it and bake it in the oven. We make this with all sorts of vegetables over here, from coleslaw through beans and courgettes to cauliflower. Yum!
Since I was in the kitchen already, I also made banana bread, to eat with the leftover tomato soup for lunch.
And while the banana bread was in the oven, I thawed out the freezer, which was long overdue. My poor thumb that was scraped and burnt in the last two days, respectively, got scraped again, because some idiot thought it a good idea to equip the inside of the freezer with extremely sharp grating. Perhaps a pre-emptive move against food thieves? In any case, every time I'm scraping the ice off the grid, I scrape some skin off my hands, too. *sigh*
Then we had lunch and after that it was time to empty Louise the Elder (=our washing machine) and hang up the freshly washed clothes, etc. By then I was fairly dead on my feet. It's a good thing that Mum volunteers to do the washing-up quite often - practically every day, in fact. Even if I have to secretly re-wash things afterwards because her eyesight just isn't what it used to be.
Still, I managed to squeeze in some crafting while vegetating in front of the telly after all that. I've stitched together the white and black front panels of my penguins and equipped them with fairly oversized, shockingly orange beaks. Their feet will have the same colour; the trial piece actually looks very funny.
So, that was today. Tomorrow I'll have to go to Aldi very early (right when they open, if I can) because they'll have pistachios and macadamia nuts, which usually only happens before Christmas, and even then only for a very short time. I tried to rearrange the freezer to make room for them but basically failed. Let's hope they'll keep in the normal fridge, too.
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Date: 2022-08-13 06:25 pm (UTC)The penguins sound funny, I hope we get to see them soon!
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Date: 2022-08-13 07:21 pm (UTC)Tomato soup with banana bread...that's a combination I want to try.
I like to freeze nuts and seeds for storage too, but I'd think they'd keep a while in the fridge.
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Date: 2022-08-13 07:51 pm (UTC)And I'd really love a much bigger freezer, but we simply don't have the space for one in our 53-square-metre Plattenbau flat.
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Date: 2022-08-13 08:00 pm (UTC)That really isn't much space! :(
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