WhiteTailedKite of Bluster
Mar. 5th, 2023 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoI was still feeling pretty much like crap this morning when I got up, but it got a little better as the day wore on. Hoping to be well by Wednesday. It was a beautiful day outside, lots of sunshine. I finally finished off my notebook. The last one took a year and a month to fill up. This one was even worse--a year, a month, and several days. I blame the internet. On the other hand, who cares really. It'll just be more stuff for my kids to throw out. If I wrote one diary in my lifetime, someone might treasure it, but no one can cope with SHELVES of Mom's old journals. Better not go there, though, because it makes me sad to think of them all in the landfill. Maybe the kids will have a bonfire and send my endless thoughts off in a blaze of glory. VIKING FUNERAL! With my notebooks piled around me. That's the ticket.
I also had more cooking frenzy, because there was a potluck tonight, and I realized I have too many vegetables that we probably won't eat up before Wednesday. I made a giant bowl of horiatiki with cucumbers, tomatoes, onion, green pepper, olives, and feta, and also a cake that advertised itself as tasting like a cider doughnut. It required applesauce, which I didn't have. But I did have apples, so I made my own applesauce. The cake was coated in cinnamon sugar. I'm not sure if it really tasted like a doughnut. It was just a nice, yellow cake, lightly flavored with apple and cinnamon. I think it needed more seasoning, but then I always think that. The recipe called for a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon. What is this nonsense? There's no such thing as a quarter of a teaspoon of cinnamon! I always put in more. It was a little bit plain all by itself, but would have been good with some fruit or cream. Or ice cream. Horiatiki should be made in the summer, when all the vegetables are at their most luscious, but I thought that everyone is sick of winter and needs something colorful and abundant, even if the tomatoes are not really rips. The salad was completely eaten, to my relief. We had a small chunk of cake to take home, and thus were able to ascertain that a bit of ice cream makes it perfect.
I promise to write about something other than food pretty soon, but I find cooking very soothing. We watched another episode of The Barchester Chronicles. Just in case you didn't know, Obadiah Slope, the execrable low-church cleric, is played to the hilt by none other than Alan Rickman. I wonder if he enjoyed himself in this part. I certainly do.
I also had more cooking frenzy, because there was a potluck tonight, and I realized I have too many vegetables that we probably won't eat up before Wednesday. I made a giant bowl of horiatiki with cucumbers, tomatoes, onion, green pepper, olives, and feta, and also a cake that advertised itself as tasting like a cider doughnut. It required applesauce, which I didn't have. But I did have apples, so I made my own applesauce. The cake was coated in cinnamon sugar. I'm not sure if it really tasted like a doughnut. It was just a nice, yellow cake, lightly flavored with apple and cinnamon. I think it needed more seasoning, but then I always think that. The recipe called for a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon. What is this nonsense? There's no such thing as a quarter of a teaspoon of cinnamon! I always put in more. It was a little bit plain all by itself, but would have been good with some fruit or cream. Or ice cream. Horiatiki should be made in the summer, when all the vegetables are at their most luscious, but I thought that everyone is sick of winter and needs something colorful and abundant, even if the tomatoes are not really rips. The salad was completely eaten, to my relief. We had a small chunk of cake to take home, and thus were able to ascertain that a bit of ice cream makes it perfect.
I promise to write about something other than food pretty soon, but I find cooking very soothing. We watched another episode of The Barchester Chronicles. Just in case you didn't know, Obadiah Slope, the execrable low-church cleric, is played to the hilt by none other than Alan Rickman. I wonder if he enjoyed himself in this part. I certainly do.
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Date: 2023-03-07 09:53 pm (UTC)A quarter teaspoon of cinnamon might as well not be there. I've done just a half-teaspoon, but that's when there are three or four other spices going in.