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Foooooood (and home improvements)
Jun. 22nd, 2008 06:08 pmI do like food.
Today's lunchboxes didn't get photographed but I used different containers and we had stir-fried vegetables wrapped in boiled wholewheat lasagne sheets, beside stir-fried egg noodles. It was delicious and I must try to remember that hemp sauce and hot chili sauce and olive oil make a fantastic stir-fry flavouring. The veg was cauliflower, aubergine (eggplant) and courgette (zucchini?), oh and garlic. We have no onions, sadly.
This evening Rob made a risotto using pudding rice instead of long-grain rice. It was lovely. It had cabbage and beetroot and herbs and spices. I think the leftovers are tomorrow's lunches, possibly with egg or fish (I can't decide which, though. We have tinned fish in oil, not tomato sauce, or I could hardboil some eggs, or even make omelette - that would be good, wouldn't it? omelette wedges).
Later we're going to eat experimental chocolate cake. Rob made our standard chocolate sponge cake but moved it low down in the oven, so it's a bit dense, and then I filled it and topped it. I made oat-milk custard using one of those cornflour-and-vanilla custard powders, and then after it had set I stirred it with some dark chocolate spread. It was lovely and gloopy and slopped nicely onto the bottom layer. Then on the top I put straight dark chocolate spread and hundreds and thousands (I can't remember why we have those in the house but we have and I think the tub will last about a zillion years). We've invited people from down the road to come and help us eat it.
Yesterday we bought a lightswitch and paint, so now we can use the light in the front room again (the previous switch went fzzzzzzt for no apparent reason) and I'm hoping to paint the front hall again. This paint is washable; when we tried to wash the previous paint it washed off the walls in spots, which wasn't the effect we were hoping for. I'm going to paint over the crayon marks first and then paint the whole wall evenly.
We're reluctantly deciding that what we really need to do is get new flooring, not a new bathroom. We can have one or the other, this year, and although I'd love a new bathroom, new floors would be great from a cleaning-up-after-children point of view. And from an Ailbhe's-dust-allergies point of view. And from a not-looking-dreadful point of view, too. So there you go :/
Today's lunchboxes didn't get photographed but I used different containers and we had stir-fried vegetables wrapped in boiled wholewheat lasagne sheets, beside stir-fried egg noodles. It was delicious and I must try to remember that hemp sauce and hot chili sauce and olive oil make a fantastic stir-fry flavouring. The veg was cauliflower, aubergine (eggplant) and courgette (zucchini?), oh and garlic. We have no onions, sadly.
This evening Rob made a risotto using pudding rice instead of long-grain rice. It was lovely. It had cabbage and beetroot and herbs and spices. I think the leftovers are tomorrow's lunches, possibly with egg or fish (I can't decide which, though. We have tinned fish in oil, not tomato sauce, or I could hardboil some eggs, or even make omelette - that would be good, wouldn't it? omelette wedges).
Later we're going to eat experimental chocolate cake. Rob made our standard chocolate sponge cake but moved it low down in the oven, so it's a bit dense, and then I filled it and topped it. I made oat-milk custard using one of those cornflour-and-vanilla custard powders, and then after it had set I stirred it with some dark chocolate spread. It was lovely and gloopy and slopped nicely onto the bottom layer. Then on the top I put straight dark chocolate spread and hundreds and thousands (I can't remember why we have those in the house but we have and I think the tub will last about a zillion years). We've invited people from down the road to come and help us eat it.
Yesterday we bought a lightswitch and paint, so now we can use the light in the front room again (the previous switch went fzzzzzzt for no apparent reason) and I'm hoping to paint the front hall again. This paint is washable; when we tried to wash the previous paint it washed off the walls in spots, which wasn't the effect we were hoping for. I'm going to paint over the crayon marks first and then paint the whole wall evenly.
We're reluctantly deciding that what we really need to do is get new flooring, not a new bathroom. We can have one or the other, this year, and although I'd love a new bathroom, new floors would be great from a cleaning-up-after-children point of view. And from an Ailbhe's-dust-allergies point of view. And from a not-looking-dreadful point of view, too. So there you go :/