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Just to get my head straight and things in order.
Two major meal preps:
Saturday afternoon: slice for afternoon tea, and maybe for supper
Monday night: soup for permie group
At least one meal to 'use up stuff':
Chickpea tomato bake
- chickpeas
- fresh tomatoes
- sun-dried tomatoes
- cream
- assorted cheeses
- spice packs (so many of them)
eta Monday: I made a dish that's called "marry me chickpeas" which...ooookay!
Anyway, I made it with a balti curry flavouring rather than the typical italian flavouring. It was pretty tasty, although I'm not sure the sun-dried tomatoes were okay in the end. Definitely something to try again at another point in time. I do not get the 'cutesy' name, though. Like, it's tasty, yeah. But anything with good spices and flavourings is. Or should be. Ugh.
Anyway, it was good.
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Slice - rhubarb & apple, or rhubarb & orange
- something crispy-topped
- use up butter
I have a working bee on Saturday afternoon, and a 'movie' night with friends on Saturday night (possibly dinner).
eta Monday: I made one cake - a 'sicilian orange cake' which involved using a whole orange. I actually made 1.5x the batter because I wanted to make a bundt cake which requires a little more batter, and ended up using a grapefruit and an orange. Nicely tangy.
Took it to the working bee, but there was so much food that only about half of it got eaten, so I took the remainder to the movie night, where we watched the Jim Henson doco 'Idea Man'. He died at only 53! And he did so much!
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soup - lentil
- vegetable soup stock to be made from carrot, leek, celery, onion, garlic & other vegie bits
- lentils
Monday night is permaculture meeting night, and we decided we'd do a 'soup and movie' night - a number of short movies and soup.
We have maybe four or five soups turning up, and only about 20 people registered. That's quite a lot of soup. Oh well, I must remember to pack a bunch of takeaway containers so people can take some soup home.
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Played hockey yesterday - good game, although the umpiring was flat-out terrible. Look, the odds in a game of equally matched players is that there'll be about 50% of the calls going your way. That's the statistics.
The calls were NOT 50%. Not even close. It was...pretty ridiculous, I mean, and I can't count the number of times I was just telling players to "keep playing!" instead of standing there and complaining.
Unfortunately, the umpire's decision is final, and although you can maybe challenge it, some of them become little emperors of their fifedom with attendant ughness.
At any rate, we won: 3-1. They got the first goal, we got the next three.
But I was rather sore afterwards, and today is even more sore/pain/strain. I don't really want to go to tonight's permaculture meeting but I haven't been in ages and I promised to bring soup. Might make it short tonight; I just don't have the energy/space for much.
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Because of hockey, I had to miss a birthday party for an 80 year old friend from church. We were in a bible study when I first joined the church, and although we're very different generations, she's a sweetheart and a much-beloved member of the congregation.
I did message the organiser to find out if there were still people there when I left hockey, but she didn't respond for another hour. I should have just turned up, because there was probably at least half an hour more socialising when I messaged.
Anyway, went to church for the first time in a while, but felt like nobody much wanted to talk to me, and then felt actively excluded by a woman who I feel like has never really warmed to me. I did have some good conversations with a couple of people who I don't usually socialise with, but the active exclusion didn't feel particularly good.
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I'm hoping a little that the aches/pains are because of the Mirena - my body adjusting. I guess I'll find out what it does in the coming week: my period is due, so I'm not sure if there'll still be bleeding or just 'discharge' which I'm still having a little, although less than the first week.
Two major meal preps:
Saturday afternoon: slice for afternoon tea, and maybe for supper
Monday night: soup for permie group
At least one meal to 'use up stuff':
Chickpea tomato bake
- chickpeas
- fresh tomatoes
- sun-dried tomatoes
- cream
- assorted cheeses
- spice packs (so many of them)
eta Monday: I made a dish that's called "marry me chickpeas" which...ooookay!
Anyway, I made it with a balti curry flavouring rather than the typical italian flavouring. It was pretty tasty, although I'm not sure the sun-dried tomatoes were okay in the end. Definitely something to try again at another point in time. I do not get the 'cutesy' name, though. Like, it's tasty, yeah. But anything with good spices and flavourings is. Or should be. Ugh.
Anyway, it was good.
--
Slice - rhubarb & apple, or rhubarb & orange
- something crispy-topped
- use up butter
I have a working bee on Saturday afternoon, and a 'movie' night with friends on Saturday night (possibly dinner).
eta Monday: I made one cake - a 'sicilian orange cake' which involved using a whole orange. I actually made 1.5x the batter because I wanted to make a bundt cake which requires a little more batter, and ended up using a grapefruit and an orange. Nicely tangy.
Took it to the working bee, but there was so much food that only about half of it got eaten, so I took the remainder to the movie night, where we watched the Jim Henson doco 'Idea Man'. He died at only 53! And he did so much!
--
soup - lentil
- vegetable soup stock to be made from carrot, leek, celery, onion, garlic & other vegie bits
- lentils
Monday night is permaculture meeting night, and we decided we'd do a 'soup and movie' night - a number of short movies and soup.
We have maybe four or five soups turning up, and only about 20 people registered. That's quite a lot of soup. Oh well, I must remember to pack a bunch of takeaway containers so people can take some soup home.
--
Played hockey yesterday - good game, although the umpiring was flat-out terrible. Look, the odds in a game of equally matched players is that there'll be about 50% of the calls going your way. That's the statistics.
The calls were NOT 50%. Not even close. It was...pretty ridiculous, I mean, and I can't count the number of times I was just telling players to "keep playing!" instead of standing there and complaining.
Unfortunately, the umpire's decision is final, and although you can maybe challenge it, some of them become little emperors of their fifedom with attendant ughness.
At any rate, we won: 3-1. They got the first goal, we got the next three.
But I was rather sore afterwards, and today is even more sore/pain/strain. I don't really want to go to tonight's permaculture meeting but I haven't been in ages and I promised to bring soup. Might make it short tonight; I just don't have the energy/space for much.
--
Because of hockey, I had to miss a birthday party for an 80 year old friend from church. We were in a bible study when I first joined the church, and although we're very different generations, she's a sweetheart and a much-beloved member of the congregation.
I did message the organiser to find out if there were still people there when I left hockey, but she didn't respond for another hour. I should have just turned up, because there was probably at least half an hour more socialising when I messaged.
Anyway, went to church for the first time in a while, but felt like nobody much wanted to talk to me, and then felt actively excluded by a woman who I feel like has never really warmed to me. I did have some good conversations with a couple of people who I don't usually socialise with, but the active exclusion didn't feel particularly good.
--
body things
I'm hoping a little that the aches/pains are because of the Mirena - my body adjusting. I guess I'll find out what it does in the coming week: my period is due, so I'm not sure if there'll still be bleeding or just 'discharge' which I'm still having a little, although less than the first week.