Dan’s creating a curry…and I’m free to tap away, and come up with a new blog post.
To be honest, it’s a chance to sum up a lot of what the holiday has been about. Food, reading, and a bit of tinkering around the house.
Food…it’s been a nice opportunity to cook. Admittedly most times of year are good to cook, but staying at home means there’s a bit more time for it. Managed to feed one couple who have entertained us many times, but also a good friend back in Edinburgh from her home in Bangaldesh. Hopefully the start of a bit more hospitality at home this year.
Reading…an opportunity to introduce “The Kitchen God’s Wife”, by Amy Tan, which I’m working my way through. Some books you speed through – this one you don’t. Reading about the Cultural Revolution is sobering stuff, even if the characters are (probably only somewhat) fictionalised.
On the plus side, you can certainly get caught up in the descriptions of the places, the landscape, the names of cities that slowly I’m learning, through hearing them via colleagues who work on programmes with China. Given those all-important Olympics this year, probably no bad time to be learning a bit more about China.
And tinkering…some mine, some from Dan’s mum. A year or so back, we were given his and hers aprons. Although I like a little light kitchen goddessery, I was slightly taken aback to have a) named aprons and b) ones bearing the terms ‘kitchen god’ and ‘kitchen goddess‘. Jen kindly aided us to bring the aprons back to a plain state.
So. New year. New aprons. They’re what every respecting god and goddess are wearing.