The official blog launch, or is it lunch of entertaining!

Ok here is the thing, my key performance indicator, to use corporate wank language is how much fun I am having. I have had three rules for many years.

1. Don't hang out with shit people. 

2. Avoid all things boring unless absolutely necessary. 

3. Always have something to look forward too. (I stole this one off a friend) 

in recent years I have added 

4. Only stay in Hawera 1 weekend a month. 

Oh how the mighty have fallen! (I ripped that line from Tom Waits) if you don't know who he is I am not surprised.

 

1. I now have a dog to hang out with for a month, His name is Murphy, and he is only borrowed. 

2. All those jobs here in my house, like cleaning it, tedious shit like painting that window, weeding the garden properly, sorting the shed out, renovating my desk (an old table from Butcharts Bakery), even mowing the lawn, there it all is right there in front of me with all the time in the world to get on with it having ignored if for 20 years in accordance with rule 2.

3. I now have the following to look forward too........................hmm I am not sure, not getting sick, a trip to Countdown, dinner?

4. Adventures, done and dusted, over and out, canned, postponed, cancelled, thwarted, problematic and it seems almost bloody illegal. The efforts to rush out and get a COF for the bus on Monday were clearly misguided.

So what am I to do,  I had the foresight to get some supplies in, supplies that required application to turn them into something useful, it would appear they all require application as when on the hunt for lunch earlier there was nothing in the cupboard that I could immediately transfer to my mouth except fruit and chocolate. I suppose on reflection that is probably the best due to my propensity for putting on weight when I drive past KFC with the window down! 

So I walked Murphy, did some work, washed the weeks dishes, I processed some of the aforementioned supplies and I managed to put the first Panhead off until 3.30 which I felt was my major achievement of the day.

I also consulted  my vast collection of cookbooks to get some ideas on processing the supplies, it was then I spotted Clean Eats from a Filthy Mouth, my wikedstepsisters cook book, born out of a blog she did documenting her efforts to make food taste great while still being good for her and her 3 children in an effort not to look like me. She is now so flash she has a website, check it out here, but be warned it is not for the verbally fainthearted, she means it when she says filthy mouth! https://www.cleaneatsfromafilthymouth.com/

That's the thing I thought I can document my cooking endeavors for the month, that will keep me amused. I sought advice from my technical advisors being Dee from Kiwa Web Productions and my bro Dylan at Idesign Solutions, as he is an engineer he knows everything. Bugger me there was some agreement on which platform to use, I ignored the advice from the knowitall on requiring video to be hip, pointing out that I had no one to video me. So the blog is born, the name entertaining! came from the cooking classes I ran at Hawera High School a year or 10  or 15 back, good to go.

 Launched, a blog documenting my cooking endeavors while in lockdown, I trawled my way through the 13 aprons I seem to have and found the entertaining! branded one to wear from here on in, just to add a bit of routine and discipline. I will document my creations the good, the bad, the ugly, as often the ideas are sound it is just the execution that is somewhat lacking.

I hope you like it, here is Murphy, he gets shitty old dog biscuits, his level of excitement about them is high mind you. As you can see he is engaged with guarding the 2 boxes of Mr Igguldon's (AKA Hamden Estate) Rose that arrived this morning, this is to augment the Panhead.