Bright, cheerful-looking sunshine, but cold again.
It has been a busy day, but successful. My sister and Roger are on their way back from their cruise. I haven’t heard from them yet. I think it would be safer if we didn’t meet.
Helen was here for the prolonged carer-handover. We are switching not only carers but also agency. All seems well. Considerable saving.
I didn’t do much knitting, deliberately. But I think I have something mindless on the needles which will tide me over until the next MKAL clue. I’ll look tomorrow.
I’m equally lost on what to read. I have been dozing to Nigella reading her How To Cook. I’ve got the book, and like it. But listening to it straight through, I was horrified at the amount of sugar and fat. Nigella posted a chicken salad on Youtube the other day, and I was interested to note that she has grown rather stout.
For dozing I have switched to Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, which I also own as a book and which is also read by its author. Better, I think. But I need a novel, now that I’ve re-read all the Allinghamx I want to re-read.
Wordle: I misled you the other day. My current winning streak is 32, not 42. That’s less than half of my all-time high of 67. My most recent failure was with SHAVE on May 6. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I scored three again today — that’s twice in a row. The same sort of thing — starters yielded one green consonant and two brown vowels. It was a considerable effort to think of any qualifying word. When I got one, it was right. I no longer subscribe to the Times’ analysis so I have no idea how many possible alternatives I stumbled innocently past.
And at the moment — nearly 7pm — mine is the only three.
Four for Mark, Thomas and Rachel. Five for Alexander and Ketki. Roger failed. And Theo hasn’t been heard from. He’s one of the bright stars and is still entirely capable therefore of equalling or eclipsing my three.
After fifty years of anti-fat lectures, we are now told that it was all the invention of one obsessed man, and fat is good for us. Sugar is still evil, though.
ReplyDeleteI like Sir Terry Pratchett's version of the four food groups: sugar, salt, grease and burnt crunchy bits.
It is hot and rainy by turns here in Maryland, and a heat wave is approaching from California.
I was wondering if the recipes are for large amounts, like 6 to 8 people. I am usually cooking for only 2, so I have to frequently cut the recipes down.
ReplyDeleteIt is fun to read cookbooks!
Is your local library able to deliver - Toronto has a “bookmobile” for those who can not get to the local branches.
I was just reading a Clarissa Wei/Ivy Chen cookbook on Taiwan foods, then a Fuschia Dunlop history of food usage and cooking techniques in the land now covered by PRChina. Different but learned a lot from both!
Happy to take them out of the library.
Lisa R-R
Have you read Tom Lake by Ann Patchett? It's set on a cherry farm in Michigan, toggling between the early 2020s and the 1980s. It's a soothing but still substantive read, with shades of Chekhov and Thornton Wilder. I read the actual book but the audio version--read by Meryl Streep!--is fantastic, I'm told.
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