It’s been a week of two halves for me. Organisation in the first half paid off when chaos hit in the second.
On Sunday we had friends over for lunch, and made a pasta sauce from scratch (not sure I’ve ever done this before! Only with tinned tomatoes). It took ages as we bothered to skin the tomatoes – I wouldn’t trouble with that next time as we put it through the blender anyway. It was tasty, and although I thought it might actually work out more expensive than sauce from a jar, it stretched to so many meals that it was significantly cheaper in the end.
On Monday evening I really went for it, which stood us in good stead later on. Simon had eggs on toast and then went out for his study group until late. I made a spinach and potato curry for us to eat on Tuesday, and left it cooking in our hay box oven while I went out to pick elderflowers, and then made cordial. Like Bev, we didn’t so much choose our fifth ‘exception’, it chose us. We really wanted to make the cordial so we had to have lemons, which otherwise we don’t use very often. I also put some dried beans into soak with the intention of making baked beans on Tuesday. I was so busy I only had a bit of toast for dinner!
On Tuesday we had the curry and bottled the cordial, but the football stopped us making the baked beans.
On Wednesday we made a birthday dinner for my sister; leek and mushroom risotto with asparagus followed by rhubarb and apple compote with buttery-oaty topping. I think she was impressed! Drained the soaking beans and put them in the fridge.
Thursday was manic. A long and demanding day at work, straight to our tai chi class from there and not getting home until after 10pm. I was glad of having leftovers I could reheat in the microwave at work, but have to admit that hunger forced us to pick something non-local up to eat on the way home.
Friday also a long work day. Grabbed the packet of apple granola I’d found in Cambridge Farmers Outlet and took it to work to eat at my desk with the local-est milk I can find at the moment (Leicestershire). We don’t use much milk, only in tea and on cereal – so until I found the granola we’d been using even less (for porridge we just use water). Still had some risotto left from Wednesday for lunch, and then had pasta for dinner with our first broad beans of the season.
Baked beans still not made!
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