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A Cock Up

 

 

It was too easy to use the tried and tested parsnips and cream tonight, I opted

for carrot and almond milk, with a side of coriander stalk, lime, garlic and of course some chilli, a bit much chilli unfortunately. Same processes, different ingredients, no sumptuous creamy goodness, but grainy mush with unbalanced chilli content, not the comfortable warmth I was aiming for but an assault, SHIT. Lucky I like chilli, to add insult tom injury I was so confident of my prowess  I cooked too much, so now I am going to have to “fix” the leftovers for breakfast, I can feel an incorporation of potato looming with a poached egg chaser! Other aspects of the meal went significantly better, sauteed brussell sprouts with bacon, another slice of last night’s excellent steak with panfried apple slices.


I screwed up lighting the fire and filled the kitchen with smoke, so had to light my scented candle from Alexander Collections, summer is the one. It was one of those things I paid through the nose for at a charity auction years ago, but when the first one ran out I had to fumble around on the internet for a new one at ½ the price because it smells so good, it does quite a serviceable job of offsetting the smell of smoke, laced with meths.

I went out on my bike this morning, lots of trucks, not many cars and a surprising amount of people wearing masks both inside their vehicles and out walking. Things were looking pretty glum this morning but the narrative on RNZ later today seems a little more positive. So I am hopeful I won’t be confined to barracks on Vogel doing funding accountability and writing policies for too long, and this blog will again be a distant memory……. There is of course tomorrow when I will need to redeem myself with a recipe!

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