Snappy new boo.

It's just gone eleven. We're waiting for Megan and Rose to arrive. Honey piked. We'll probably just walk to the Bugsplat Worker's Club, stay for a little bit and then walk home again. It's been a really productive day of moving furniture, assembling a bed and cleaning the bathroom.

We have lassies chilling in the fridge - yogurt, water, lime, lemon sorbet and cardomon all whizzied up in the (yay for being back in my kitchen!) whizzie. I like a good whizzie, don't you?

Pots and pans.

In the interests of rent reduction we have been buying household goods. All our household goods from Hometown have arrived now so it's no good imagining that we probably have a double-boiler somewhere anymore. Now we know the true state of affairs kitchen-wise.

It's strange to have everything here. It's all here now. There are some things I miss that I don't have. Some plates I particularly liked. Some things have memories that make me a bit sad. Mostly though, it's okay. The kitchen has always been the most stable place in my life. I don't really know much about the life I had before I joined this body in 1985 (sorry, I know it's very strange, but trust me, I'm a very ordinary and dull lady otherwise) but the Herrings (ghosts from an Edwardian age, see previous apology) say I was a cook. I'm most at home in the kitchen, especially kitchens with real fireplaces.

My kitchen news is that we bought a nine piece pots and pans set. They're lovely.

I must go. Thea has a coffee date.

Cook books have arrived!

Day to day cookery!

Has arrived. This is my high school cookbook. It has everything you could need in the world of arse-end of the Anglosphere cookery. The recipes usually work really well by halving the sugar and fat content and putting in fruit or yogurt or nuts instead. And it's nice and small and with no stupid glossy photographs. I like it.

cold roast beetroot

we've been sick. it's all the work stress making us vulnerable to the various colds going 'round Bugsplat. Mannie and Angelata have both been making food to make us well.

This is Mannie's idea of get well food:

Chicken soup
Lamb roast with mashed potato and gravy and peas and roast pumpkin

This is Angelata's idea of get well food:

Grapefruit juice
Chilli/garlic/ginger soup
Miso soup
Raw things like carrot and fruit

They do have one thing in common:

Cold roast beetroot.