Kitchen duty, bleurgh!
Jan. 5th, 2024 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartAs I've mentioned repeatedly, I don't like cooking. It's messy, it takes forever, and the results are gone in 15 minutes, tops. Nonetheless, I wrestled the oversized broccolis into obedience today: 3 of them dismantled, the rosettes pre-cooked, cooled and put into the freezer (for 3 meals later on), the thick stems peeled, hacked, cooked and pureed, turned into a fairly decent soup, if I say so myself. Mum approved.
The worst part of cooking is that it has to be done in the morning (if you want to have a midday meal at any decent time), which interferes with my creative process. So, no more writing was done today, even though I actually had some vague ideas, and only very little work on the songbook. Still, I can hope that tomorrow I'll be able to sew the last page to the back cover. That leaves me with two finished pages, the first and the last; I'll "only" have to complete the six pages in-between. And to bind the book. At least I don't have to hem the pages; they're simply edged with blanket stitch.
Not much else happened. After half the morning in the dratted kitchen I was pretty much useless for the rest of the day. Mum put the dried, diced rolls through the grinder, so now we have lots of home-made breadcrumbs, which are so much better than the ones you can buy ready-made, even though we only make them so that we won't have to throw out days-old rolls.
I'm playing with the idea of going to the Auchan supermarket tomorrow, assuming the weather remains nice. We don't need anything urgently, but that's all the better. I can stroll through the whole shopping centre, fetch our medicines from the pharmacy, visit the craft shops and get a coffee from the automated coffee maker (if it's in working order). There are two fancy (and very expensive) cafés in that SC, but - don't laugh! - I actually like the cheap coffee from the vending machine better.
The worst part of cooking is that it has to be done in the morning (if you want to have a midday meal at any decent time), which interferes with my creative process. So, no more writing was done today, even though I actually had some vague ideas, and only very little work on the songbook. Still, I can hope that tomorrow I'll be able to sew the last page to the back cover. That leaves me with two finished pages, the first and the last; I'll "only" have to complete the six pages in-between. And to bind the book. At least I don't have to hem the pages; they're simply edged with blanket stitch.
Not much else happened. After half the morning in the dratted kitchen I was pretty much useless for the rest of the day. Mum put the dried, diced rolls through the grinder, so now we have lots of home-made breadcrumbs, which are so much better than the ones you can buy ready-made, even though we only make them so that we won't have to throw out days-old rolls.
I'm playing with the idea of going to the Auchan supermarket tomorrow, assuming the weather remains nice. We don't need anything urgently, but that's all the better. I can stroll through the whole shopping centre, fetch our medicines from the pharmacy, visit the craft shops and get a coffee from the automated coffee maker (if it's in working order). There are two fancy (and very expensive) cafés in that SC, but - don't laugh! - I actually like the cheap coffee from the vending machine better.
