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Montjoye vs the Lurgy day#14
I'm much improved but still not right. Head and lung stuffedness is only minimal but energy levels are not what they should be. However, having decided I'm well enough for public consumption, I've been out and about a bit the last two days. Only minor shopping and craft hall last night, but in between I've got all enthused about food. I lose cooking mojo when I'm sick. Combined with the loss of energy, and the avoidance of contagion, I tend to eat out of pre prepared stocks while ill. In addition, I'd had another incidence of getting up to find the freezer had been open all night a few weeks back. More reason to focus on working down existing stocks. So the fridge and freezer were looking pretty bare.
So I've bought a bunch of food and am cooking up a storm. Yesterday I defrosted the depleted freezer too, so the new food has a tidy and spacious as possible place to go. So far I've made:
-ham stock
-pumpkin soup with part of the ham stock(roast the veg with allspice and the little ham meat included)
-two apricot loaves from the apricot pulp defrosted several days earlier, but not cooked due to lurgy. One got demolished last night at crafthall. I hope TJ doesn't suffer from his enthusiastic consumption of about half the cake!
-bircher muesli
In progress is:
-chicken stock
-bolognese sauce
-pork chops marinading in soy etc
Soon I need to:
-finish the pork chops
-cook lamb chops and roast mediteranean veg
-make various things out of the 4kg of lemons from my neighbours
-make sorrel and potato soup (I have potatoes that are beginning to sprout)
as well as the usual "keep an eye on the fridge and find uses for what needs to be used"
Now though I've done a bit much today and am feeling a bit wobbly. I shall commune with the couch and recoup energy for tomorrow's cooking adventures.
I'm much improved but still not right. Head and lung stuffedness is only minimal but energy levels are not what they should be. However, having decided I'm well enough for public consumption, I've been out and about a bit the last two days. Only minor shopping and craft hall last night, but in between I've got all enthused about food. I lose cooking mojo when I'm sick. Combined with the loss of energy, and the avoidance of contagion, I tend to eat out of pre prepared stocks while ill. In addition, I'd had another incidence of getting up to find the freezer had been open all night a few weeks back. More reason to focus on working down existing stocks. So the fridge and freezer were looking pretty bare.
So I've bought a bunch of food and am cooking up a storm. Yesterday I defrosted the depleted freezer too, so the new food has a tidy and spacious as possible place to go. So far I've made:
-ham stock
-pumpkin soup with part of the ham stock(roast the veg with allspice and the little ham meat included)
-two apricot loaves from the apricot pulp defrosted several days earlier, but not cooked due to lurgy. One got demolished last night at crafthall. I hope TJ doesn't suffer from his enthusiastic consumption of about half the cake!
-bircher muesli
In progress is:
-chicken stock
-bolognese sauce
-pork chops marinading in soy etc
Soon I need to:
-finish the pork chops
-cook lamb chops and roast mediteranean veg
-make various things out of the 4kg of lemons from my neighbours
-make sorrel and potato soup (I have potatoes that are beginning to sprout)
as well as the usual "keep an eye on the fridge and find uses for what needs to be used"
Now though I've done a bit much today and am feeling a bit wobbly. I shall commune with the couch and recoup energy for tomorrow's cooking adventures.