I accidentally switched to Wednesday’s thread and was wondering why it was so quiet.

I’m still feeling a bit blah with my headache/migraine but I’ve had a fairly productive day. I baked bread and made half a dozen breakfast muffins for the freezer. I made bacon bits to sprinkle on future salads (and made a very impressive catch of a bit of bacon rind which decided to randomly jump out of the frying pans and I grabbed it with my tongs mid-flight). I packaged up a bit more stuff for the freezer and made a start on a fish curry. I was going to have the curry for dinner (with some for the freezer too) but my stomach’s feeling slightly unsettled so I stopped at the marinade step and will finish it tomorrow. I’ve started a pot of chicken with rice & vegies in the rice cooker instead.

I also did a thorough clean of the stove & rangehood (which was needed after spitting bacon fat everywhere. Whoever decided freestanding rangehoods were a good idea should not be allowed to design kitchens. All those extra hard-to-reach surfaces to get covered in dust and lots of thin metal sheeting to amplify the noise of the fan.

I was cooking some bacon rind and it managed to spit hard enough it jumped right out of the pan, and I was miraculously able to catch it with my tongs.

Whoever was in charge of the slicer in the deli for the bacon went a bit wild. I few slices were a bit mangled and one was so thick on one side it’s almost a steak. The dodgiest pieces got allocated to be chopped up and browned for future salad sprinkles. Some of the rest went to my breakfast muffin prouction line. Just two more eggs to be cooked and I’ll have half a dozen muffins in the freezer for future breakfasts. I’ve done half with bacon and half with thin beef & pork burgers (that actually started as meatballs before I squished them). The cheese was also a bit wildly sliced, but once it’s melted on the muffins no one will be able to tell.

It’s getting a bit warm out there, I need to start thinking about moving walks to the early morning or evening again.

After a great day yesterday I woke up late with a headache and feeling very blah. Going on a walk actually helped a bit, but I don’t think I’ll be doing much gardening today. I do have some meat packing to do for the freezer and some washing to bring in from the line. It might be a good day to do a bit more sorting in the sewing room too, I don’t think my brain is up to actual sewing.

It’s been a glorious day in the garden today. I got a couple more pieces of garden support frames assembled (for beans and tomatoes) and planted out sunflowers, pumpkin, watermelon, beans and corn. Tomorrow I aim to plant out tomatoes and some beans. Most of the other seedlings should probably grow a little bit more before they get moved.

Today started with a bit of chaos. My groceries had a window of 9am - 3pm, and normally they give you a 2 hour window closer to the time. I hadn’t received anything yet so thought it was safe to head out with Mr Woof, but just after I put his harness on they arrived, right on the dot of 9am (and simultaneously with the test message that it would be delivered soon!) My Woof had to be unharnessed again so I could collect the groceries, and so the delivery man could be woofed at frantically.

There were quite a few missed items again this week. They really need to up their game if they want more people to do delivery and click & collect (which they seem to want, for some reason. They are desperate to cut checkout staff and implement self checkout, but also want to increase staffing requirements to do the shopping for you. I really have no idea what there overall plan is here.)

They apparently had no turkey or pork, making my half leg of ham a little lonely. Also no lettuce, tomatoes or citrus fruit, so salads are going to be a bit sparse. I hear Woolworths let you choose specific substitutions and add notes to the items, that would be a good idea if it reduces the times they just leave out items. I tend to work from a model of stocking the pantry/fridge/freezer and them plan what to have from there instead of planning specific meals I shop for, but for most people leaving out major ingredients makes the entire shop pointless as you have to go to the shops to get the missed things yourself.

Sleep has been obtained and I’m on my second cup of coffee. To Do List for today: Get dressed and take Mr Woof out for out daily stroll. Mow the lawn in the back garden. Sort out the stuff left in the fridge before grocery delivery tomorrow. There’s not much left to deal with, but I might pickle the remaining mushrooms and freeze some cauliflower. The kiwi fruit can go in the freezer for a future chutney. They top the list for fruit I am most likely to buy and not actually eat, but they are fortunately also high on my preferred chutney ingredient list.

I’ll schedule that in for later. Too tired to be happy at the moment. Only an hour of work to go, then I can go home and get some sleep and I’ll be able to think about happy then.

lost in a red salmon cannery?

Some random chocolates with no obvious branding someone at work had. It was much appreciated.

Want chocolate. Only have mandarin.

Edit: was given chocolate. 😁

2nd Edit: I’m back to only having a mandarin again, but with the addition of post-chocolate happiness.

25/50

I have lasagne in the oven with a couple of trays of veg, now I just need to wait. I’m pretty happy with past me who decided to make a bunch of mini lasagnes for the freezer.

I found the Covid ones made me horribly sick for 2-3 days then tired for a couple of weeks. Actual Covid was much milder but lasted about twice as long.

I think some dates could work quite well too. Assuming I actually get the dates I ordered this month, anyway.

I just had a ham and salad sandwich for lunch. Salad just hits differently at the start of summer than the end. Give it a few months and I’ll be ready to stop the endless salads and go back to soups and stews for winter, but at the moment I’m all about the salad.

That does look pretty good. I might be tempted to try that myself.

They did a cut and paste from a recipe that included the chocolate and just missed taking out that line. Very poor editing.

I found the original with choc chips included if you want to do that bit https://fatmumslim.com.au/anzac-slice-recipe-with-choc-chips/

It was looking like the monthly grocery shop was going to be a bit cheaper than normal, then I decided to get some turkey and ham and some more dried fruit and extra butter so I can do some baking. Now it’s looking like it will be a bit more expensive than normal.

In a row is definitely better than the single duck that likes to wait on the nature strip and then run out suddenly in front of the car. Ducks really shouldn’t play chicken.