St Alphonse
Well, no it didn't all go horribly wrong but yesterday events overtook me rather.
The morning was shopping - not as early a start as I had planned but, hey, who cares? Then as it was book group day (one of them) I had to get supper prepared for the people who were coming back for the evening.
Everything takes so much longer in the heat, even though I had planned an easy meal: Gazpacho, salmon and rocket pasta bake with salad, cheese, shop-bought tarts. The chopping for the Gazpacho seemed to take forever and then, of course there is the clearing up. Meanwhile, shooing cats out of the kitchen - mostly those who aren't allowed in the house anyway (see previous posts), and walking back and forward from the two fridges collecting things I had forgotten.
Two fridges - very important. I find that vegetables go off so quickly that everything has to be kept in the fridge to extend its life. We try to shop only twice a week. One big shop and a top-up, but even so we find veggies and salads go off so quickly that meals are re-vamped at a moment's notice.
We do plan to get a larger fridge soon, our main, indoor, fridge is on it's last legs but we still believe that a second will be essential. The fridge in the garage is known as the drinks fridge and we try to only have it in play during the summer when it stores wine, beer and all manner of cold drinks but if we are expecting visitors we use it in the winter too. Then there is the freezer, usually full and with my future plan to 'buy when it is cheap' in bulk, we could really do with a second freezer too - and there's all those courgettes from the garden to freeze as well.
Once the shower unit, which has been taking up valuable garage space for 12 months now, is fitted, we will have space for a nice big chest freezer, but I'm sure it still won't be big enough. I have heard of people here with four chest freezers and three fridges, but I think we'll stick at the two of each.
Oh yes, last evening went very well, thank you. Our friends had a swim before supper and we ate outside in the cooling air, even though we were still overheated at 11pm!
Well, no it didn't all go horribly wrong but yesterday events overtook me rather.
The morning was shopping - not as early a start as I had planned but, hey, who cares? Then as it was book group day (one of them) I had to get supper prepared for the people who were coming back for the evening.
Everything takes so much longer in the heat, even though I had planned an easy meal: Gazpacho, salmon and rocket pasta bake with salad, cheese, shop-bought tarts. The chopping for the Gazpacho seemed to take forever and then, of course there is the clearing up. Meanwhile, shooing cats out of the kitchen - mostly those who aren't allowed in the house anyway (see previous posts), and walking back and forward from the two fridges collecting things I had forgotten.
Two fridges - very important. I find that vegetables go off so quickly that everything has to be kept in the fridge to extend its life. We try to shop only twice a week. One big shop and a top-up, but even so we find veggies and salads go off so quickly that meals are re-vamped at a moment's notice.
We do plan to get a larger fridge soon, our main, indoor, fridge is on it's last legs but we still believe that a second will be essential. The fridge in the garage is known as the drinks fridge and we try to only have it in play during the summer when it stores wine, beer and all manner of cold drinks but if we are expecting visitors we use it in the winter too. Then there is the freezer, usually full and with my future plan to 'buy when it is cheap' in bulk, we could really do with a second freezer too - and there's all those courgettes from the garden to freeze as well.
Once the shower unit, which has been taking up valuable garage space for 12 months now, is fitted, we will have space for a nice big chest freezer, but I'm sure it still won't be big enough. I have heard of people here with four chest freezers and three fridges, but I think we'll stick at the two of each.
Oh yes, last evening went very well, thank you. Our friends had a swim before supper and we ate outside in the cooling air, even though we were still overheated at 11pm!
1 comment:
Oh, you are a good girl chopping the veggies for your gazpacho. I am far too lazy, and just throw everything into the liquidiser. :-)
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