I may be getting carried away with all the planting, but I picked up a sprouter so I can make some bean sprouts to throw in our salads. All they need are some seeds and some water. That’s it. You just have to rinse them off twice a day – very low maintenance.
Delicious! Well, not so much, but at least it’s more greens. And when I put them in my mouth to eat them, I imagine they look like spider legs getting slurped up. Now, THAT’S delicious.
It only takes 3-5 days to get them to grow to them to an edible size. They grow pretty quickly and get very long and leggy.
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Today has been most uneventful. It was back to work as per usual after a wonky long weekend and I came straight home afterward to make some dinner. I made roasted mushrooms for the first time ever:
Very easy to make – some olive oil and balsamic vinegar sprinkled over the mushrooms with some garlic (minced) in the oven for 20 minutes at 425 degrees. Delicious.
I also made a black bean and avocado salad (not a big hit with Mike Browne) but a step up from dinner last week where he asked, “What’s for dinner? It smells like farts!”. That was some boiled cauliflower – not farts at all.
I’ll have the black bean salad for breakfast tomorrow. I also made some nut crusted pork chops. I need to work on that recipe a bit, the nuts didn’t really crust up at all. However, dinner was pretty tasty and I’m on a great big lime kick at the moment.
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I made the ugliest apple pie today. Oof. I think things went sideways when I halved the pasty recipe. I used my Grandma’s favourite pastry recipe, which is the best recipe ever and always works. Except when you half it. I kinda thought half an egg was weird. The dough was awful to roll out and just crumbled when I put it on top of the apples. I rolled with it anyway, pressed as much down with my hands as possible and baked it FOREVER. I made another mistake in the oven – the rack was not right in the middle of the oven and down a few pegs, so the top took ages to get brown.
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My bowl of goldfish – my late night snack.
Thanks for the nice comments about my hand quilting! I’ll trust you guys and will stick with it. I’ll also believe my stitches are the right size and I shouldn’t make them any smaller. Mike’s mom told me her grandma used to stitch 6 stitches to the inch. And she used to hand quilt big quilts! It must have taken forever.
I had another late-into-the-evening meeting at work tonight. During this meeting I learned a new phrase – “Certification Inflation”. It’s when people get hired for jobs because they have higher education than required. Some employers like that even though it’s not necessary to do the work. Then it’s tougher for the next person with less education to get the job because the last guy had more certification even though it was not even needed in the first place. I knew this happened in the workplace, I just didn’t realize it had a name. And a corny name at that. This phrase kept going over and over in my mind on the ride home. So much so that I almost missed my stop. Very distracting, that Certification Inflation.
Thank goodness I get to sleep in tomorrow. I will even have time to write a postcard before I go to work tomorrow. I signed up for a postcard swap, so I will do that before any type of inflation sets in.
Stupid inflation.
