So yes, election and all. Just watching HIGNFY with Lembit Öpik – he’s hilarious. Anyway, moving on!
I watched Julie and Julia around Ding’s house last week. Generally a good film methinks. I’d already decided that I needed to start cooking – I’ve been living off canteen food which although cheap is more expensive that packed lunch, and also consists of the main food groups; grease, carbs, curry and pudding. Watching J&J further encouraged the cookingness. Also, I have realised that I’ve been doing it wrong. I’ve been buying food and then attempting to find a recipe to use the food in. Apparently the way to do it is to find the recipe, and then buy the required food. This was an epiphany. This also lead to me trotting to Tesco’s today (would have been Sainsbury’s but eh, money) with a shopping list for the week and spending over £70 for the pleasure. They had no real black pudding! Only pre-cut slices. For people who lack knives, probably.
So lunch was a “ready meal” of chicken satay (EasyCook – nom nom) I’d made a few weeks ago and frozen, and dinner tonight was also from the Spring issue of EasyCook, poached rainbow trout, steamed asparagus and hollandaise sauce with water cress. Part of the “10 things you can do with watercress” feature. It was pretty ok – 3.5/5 I would say (bearing in mind 5/5 is hard to achieve for me. Chicken satay was 4/5. My sister’s wedding main dish was 5/5 – that was cooked by a top restaurant). Lunch tomorrow is brocolli and goat’s cheese soup I made tonight (nom!) and dinner may be sesame coated white fish, steamed white fish with couscous, or indeed sausage-meatball and rice one-pot. I haven’t decided yet.
Back to main headlines – we’re moving towards a PR referendum! Assuming we get a Tory-Whig(ish) coalition. Yay-ness! I’m all for PR. Ironically this is the first time I understood PR, despite “learning” about it during politics A-level (which I left after a year lol). Non-science has never been my thing. Mostly, since I now live in a safe Tory seat and thus my carefully cast vote is in reality less useful than my toilet paper, I would like my vote to count. I resent the apathetic non-voters in marginal seats – pull your fingers out!
Ooo if you are crafty this is good. This site has tutorials on how to make dolls (amazing, I wish I had the patience!) but also there is a life size Mini Dachshund! http://dollmaker.nunodoll.com/dog/dachshund.html – it’s adorable! I could have my own doxie without the associated back problems! Squishee…
