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ismoI have imported so many foodstuffs into this house. It took me twice as long as usual to get through the grocery store. I vacillate between "OMG why did I buy all this" and "OMG I don't have enough." I spent an amount I will not confess to. Everything is more expensive. However, I saved an amount equal to 20% of the total, and got a 40 cents per gallon gas coupon, plus a 10 dollar coupon for my next purchase. Tony the melodious checker sang "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" while bagging my stuff. I couldn't find any pepperoni for Raptor, but the Sparrowhawk found some when he went out to buy beer later. The one thing I couldn't find was whole wheat flour. NONE. It seems a weird thing for them to run out of. So I had to make four enormous loaves of basically white bread with oatmeal. I put in extra honey and a stick of butter so it might have more flavor. I gave the Sparrowhawk a sample, and he was like om nom nom, so I guess it's all right.
The Duchess invited us (the two of us plus the Nipper and family) to Christmas Dinner on the 25th, and promptly caught a tummy virus from Bird Baby. She assures me she'll be better by Monday, and I hope so! It does add a certain note of contingency to my planning, however. Also, she doesn't know how to cook anything gluten free, and the traditional dinner is meat pie. So I will have to bring something for the Redhead to eat. I'll probably make boeuf Bourguignon, which will be like the insides of a meat pie.
And then I said I'd bring a dessert. Person A cannot eat eggs. Person B cannot eat nuts. Person C cannot eat gluten. This is like one of those puzzles where you have a goat, a cabbage, and a wolf, and you have to take them all across the river in a small boat. I think I will have to make two cakes, one without flour and one without eggs, with no nuts in either. That should work--IF I can squeeze that many minutes out of the remaining hours in the next couple of days.
The Duchess invited us (the two of us plus the Nipper and family) to Christmas Dinner on the 25th, and promptly caught a tummy virus from Bird Baby. She assures me she'll be better by Monday, and I hope so! It does add a certain note of contingency to my planning, however. Also, she doesn't know how to cook anything gluten free, and the traditional dinner is meat pie. So I will have to bring something for the Redhead to eat. I'll probably make boeuf Bourguignon, which will be like the insides of a meat pie.
And then I said I'd bring a dessert. Person A cannot eat eggs. Person B cannot eat nuts. Person C cannot eat gluten. This is like one of those puzzles where you have a goat, a cabbage, and a wolf, and you have to take them all across the river in a small boat. I think I will have to make two cakes, one without flour and one without eggs, with no nuts in either. That should work--IF I can squeeze that many minutes out of the remaining hours in the next couple of days.
