Can’t sleep. I’ve passed that point where you might drift off naturally, and am back into the point of brain-whirring. Time to get up then. To give way to the brain, read a little, write a little, calm the system down. And eat a little, to encourage the body to slow too. In the past, …
Category archives: Food
A little evening alchemy
It begins with finding cucumbers on special in the Co-op. Six cucumbers. Well, five actually, marked down – the sixth is there, and I grab it, whether it’s the same price or not. A little maths late in the (almost finished) summer term: 3 whole cucumbers + 2 large onions + 1 green pepper (if …
Half-baked
I’m trying to write, really I am. But ideas just now are not ready to eat yet – they’re only half-baked. When I do my regular school pick-up walk, it doubles as free-to-think time. (It also doubles as yes-I-do-take-some-exercise-actually time, and my own individual version of Springwatch at the moment, just so’s you know.) There …
Stocking – or hoarding?
I seem to have bounced back from my kitchen blues – and now the freezer is filling up again. The cupboards are restocked, and the tops of the cupboards are restocked…you get the picture. I like buying food (mostly). Today, the supermarket I like the best decided to have a major increase in its world …
Kitchen confidential
Don’t tell the freezer (or the new-ish cooker), but I seem to have gone off cooking. Again. Call it the changing light, and the possibility of less wintry food. But, more realistically, call it being on kitchen duty for the forseeable future. Overall, I like food. More accurately, I love food. I love thinking about …