Mainly kitchen duty today
Apr. 3rd, 2026 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI've dismantled the sorry excuse of bread pudding, basically throwing out the pieces of actual bread - they were so hard they refused to actually soak up the custard - and the result was some baked custard and strawberry puree... perhaps two handfuls saved from the whole large dish. Ah, well.
I then made tomato soup a la Mary Berry: just dumped a can of hacked tomatoes and half a litre of tomato puree into a pot, added some vegetable soup (made of a soup cube) and some cooking cream, seasoned with some basil and a pinch of sugar and added ABC noodles. It was fantastic. Mum, who never liked tomato soup, simply loved it.
The day being what it is we avoided anything meaty and had fish with parsley potatoes and a salad for lunch. Mind you, I never understood why fish doesn't count as meet - fish are animals, too, that you have to kill to eat, so what is the difference? But I've given up trying to understand such things a long time ago. (Mind you, the original reason could have been that fish was basically the only thing poor people in certain countries could eat, so it was either that or starving. As a late friend of mine used to say: "At the beginning there was the poverty. The ideology came later.")
On the crafting front, I worked some more on my teddy bears and Santa hats. Small and slow progress is progress, too.
I then made tomato soup a la Mary Berry: just dumped a can of hacked tomatoes and half a litre of tomato puree into a pot, added some vegetable soup (made of a soup cube) and some cooking cream, seasoned with some basil and a pinch of sugar and added ABC noodles. It was fantastic. Mum, who never liked tomato soup, simply loved it.
The day being what it is we avoided anything meaty and had fish with parsley potatoes and a salad for lunch. Mind you, I never understood why fish doesn't count as meet - fish are animals, too, that you have to kill to eat, so what is the difference? But I've given up trying to understand such things a long time ago. (Mind you, the original reason could have been that fish was basically the only thing poor people in certain countries could eat, so it was either that or starving. As a late friend of mine used to say: "At the beginning there was the poverty. The ideology came later.")
On the crafting front, I worked some more on my teddy bears and Santa hats. Small and slow progress is progress, too.
