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wiseheartIn other words: Sunday wasn't exactly uneventful, either.
It started with a short trip to Lidl and Aldi, respectively. Dratted supermarkets have different offers in the second half of the week, to force us to make more trips to them. But Aldi had bananas and the Actvia yogurt for considerably reduced prices, and since we start each day with exactly those things, I went and filled the fridge... with other things, too, of course, but these were the main items. I also bought six packages of Tütensuppe, as those are our way of survival when neither of us feels like cooking.
Today I did cook, though. The Topfenknödel were overdue, as the Quark was closing up to its "best before" date, and 1/3 little jar of home-made strawberry jam was waiting for its chance to be eaten. So we had it with our Knödel.
Crafting was a bit subdued again. I worked a bit on the tinfoil garland project while watching telly with half an eye. Then I've sewn on the felt appliqués to the remaining eight pillow-cases and pinned the front and back panels of said pillow-cases together. The rest of the sewing will be fairly easy and straightforward and will be done one piece at a time.
I also prepared the bio-oranges for tomorrow's jam-making. I had to buy bio-oranges, as this particular recipe asks for the peels to be included. I washed and sliced a kilo of oranges into paper thin slices, dumped the sugar over them and they're now quietly absorbing the sugar and producing juice in a big pot. The recipe says they should do this overnight; it's one I've already made two years ago and it worked, so I'm carefully optimistic.
As I don't have to cook tomorrow, I'll give those peanut butter cookies a try - again, because I have whipping cream that needs to be used up. I hope it will be better than those horrid condensed milk cookies I was making last week.
The "promised" storm never came, thank God. We had some mild rain, which was very welcome after the long period of draught, and it stayed outside the balcony, so everything was fine.
It started with a short trip to Lidl and Aldi, respectively. Dratted supermarkets have different offers in the second half of the week, to force us to make more trips to them. But Aldi had bananas and the Actvia yogurt for considerably reduced prices, and since we start each day with exactly those things, I went and filled the fridge... with other things, too, of course, but these were the main items. I also bought six packages of Tütensuppe, as those are our way of survival when neither of us feels like cooking.
Today I did cook, though. The Topfenknödel were overdue, as the Quark was closing up to its "best before" date, and 1/3 little jar of home-made strawberry jam was waiting for its chance to be eaten. So we had it with our Knödel.
Crafting was a bit subdued again. I worked a bit on the tinfoil garland project while watching telly with half an eye. Then I've sewn on the felt appliqués to the remaining eight pillow-cases and pinned the front and back panels of said pillow-cases together. The rest of the sewing will be fairly easy and straightforward and will be done one piece at a time.
I also prepared the bio-oranges for tomorrow's jam-making. I had to buy bio-oranges, as this particular recipe asks for the peels to be included. I washed and sliced a kilo of oranges into paper thin slices, dumped the sugar over them and they're now quietly absorbing the sugar and producing juice in a big pot. The recipe says they should do this overnight; it's one I've already made two years ago and it worked, so I'm carefully optimistic.
As I don't have to cook tomorrow, I'll give those peanut butter cookies a try - again, because I have whipping cream that needs to be used up. I hope it will be better than those horrid condensed milk cookies I was making last week.
The "promised" storm never came, thank God. We had some mild rain, which was very welcome after the long period of draught, and it stayed outside the balcony, so everything was fine.
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Date: 2025-09-01 11:39 am (UTC)Aaah! That makes sense. We would call them 'organic' in the UK. Bio actually is a lot easier to remember.
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Date: 2025-09-01 03:55 pm (UTC)I always wonder if those bio oranges are truly bio...
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Date: 2025-09-02 03:26 pm (UTC)I did our big shop today — but our choice these days is either big Tesco or smaller Tesco. But I am lucky to have the car, as I will have to go to the Co-op about 5 miles away in the next few days, as it sells our favourite coffee for about 60% of the price in a Tesco store.
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