A hard day

[wiseheart]

Yes, today was hard. I got up early to clean the kitchen, the bathroom and the loo before our cleaning lady would arrive; some window cleaning was planned for today, and I wanted the entire flat done within two ours, due to her... specific method to charge. I won't pay for 3 hours when she only works, say, 2 hours and 10 minutes. Thanks to me prep work and my organizing skills, the cleaning was done within the time limit - but boy, was I exhausted afterwards! In fact, I still am!

Anyway, after she left, I did another food run, collecting the things I managed to forget yesterday. And after that, I went to choir practice. So yeah, pretty much dead on my feet.

But at least my choir mates loved the little egg baskets, so there's that. :)

I'm planning a slow day for tomorrow. The only thing on my working plan is the asparagus quiche, and since I make it of ready-made puff pastry (I can hear the shocked outcry of every self-respecting housewife, but since I'm not one I don't care) and the asparagus has already been peeled, chopped and pre-cooked, there isn't much to do. Fortunately.

Still no decision about the Easter bred recipe. I might actually make a yeast Gugelhupf instead. We'll see.

Comments

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Charging an hour when working less than half of it is indeed specific.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

To put it mildly...

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

The Gugelhupf sounds great. I’ve never tried one.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I love Guglhupf. It's basically a rich yeast dough (with sugar, butter and eggs), with raisins or dried fruits in it. I can highly recommend it. *g*

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

No shocked outcry from me. I think you'll find that most self-respecting housewife's use ready made pastry nowadays. At least you know the exact result you're going to get.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is the idea, yes. I love ready-made puff pastry. It is so versatile, can be filled both with sweet and savoury stuff, and spares me 90% of the work — perfect!

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I never met a person who does their own puff pastry!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Clearly, you never met my neighbour. ;))

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BTW- that´s the Youtube link for the Easter bread:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=epgZQnI9Xpk (https://youtube.com/watch?v=epgZQnI9Xpk)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It looks interesting — I saved it to my "Food and Drink" playlist and will give it a try one day. It's such a relief that she gives the measures in grams and mls in the description; this cup thing drives me up the wall! I do have a list about how much a cup of this or a cup of that is supposed to be in normal measurements, but it's so annoying to rely on that all the time.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am glad the Easter baskets were well received — you put a lot of work into them.

I reckon if ready-made puff pastry is good enough for Mary Berry it's good enough for the rest of us!

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Asparagus quiche sounds heavenly. Are you using white asparagus? I've never seen white asparagus here but have heard it is ever so much better than the green.