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I’ve been cooking!
I’ve been cooking recently. Early Christmas gatherings to cook for, as well as just the plain old boring need for food.
In non-boring news, I think I have perfected the ultimate gluten free pizza dough, and have finally made home made mozzarella!
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December 1, 2009 Comments Off
A lick of paint for the kitchen.
Our kitchen is the most revolting colour. Was. Well, sort of still is.
Initially, it looked like this (photos from when we moved in):
And that photo doesn’t even begin to show how it really looked – it’s chipped, it’s stained. It’s nasty.
You can just image the conversation at the paint shop, can’t you?
“G’day, can I give you a hand at all?”
“Oh hi! Yes, I want some paint.”
“No worries! What colour would you like?”
“Well, see, I ate some dodgy Mexican last night – awful stuff. I was hurling the stuff up all night!
And you know… as I was there, hugging the toilet bowl in the dead of night, bits of half digested corn bespeckling my nighty, regurgitated beans sticking loose strands of hair to my cheek, I bought up the guacamole I had – slosh – right into the bowl.
..And it occurred to me – isn’t that a pretty colour!
So I want it that colour, my good man! That colour precisely!”
So instead of late night avocado regurgitation green, we opted for a gloss white for now.
Clean, goes with everything (we intend on painting some of our furniture in there BRIGHT PUERTO RICAN BROTHEL RED. Seth wants to decorate the kitchen with things here and there that remind him of his Puerto Rican heritage and family) and is that much lighter that I’ve noticed I don’t need to turn on the lights nearly as early in the afternoon as I did.
You can see in the photo above (me getting breakfast this morning – please excuse the shit everywhere. It’s moved from where it should be so I could paint) that I haven’t painted in the inside of the cupboard doors yet, but I will.
You can also (maybe?) see that the cat piss yellow counter tops have been covered up with what looks like metal sheeting. It isn’t actually metal sheeting, but it looks like it, and it’s shiny and clean and easy to clean up.
Haven’t managed to do anything about the lovely jaundice yellow walls yet, but thems the breaks.
I’m high on paint fumes – nothing bugs me.
September 24, 2009 Comments Off
Today
Woke up today feeling like I was in an oven. It’s funny weather – sunny, but with this hot, hot wind.
Perfect laundry drying day! (oh, how domestic of me)
Still, it seems most days that I wash laundry and hang it out to dry, it rains. So given that I either want dry laundry OR rain (it’s so dry here my grass is dieing) I figure it’s the perfect day for me to wash towels.
My laundry. As the bottles may suggest, I’m a pack-rat. And I ESPECIALLY can’t throw away bottles.
It’s exciting stuff at my house, I can tell you!
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September 22, 2009 Comments Off
A wander about the garden in the evening
It’s a mess out there. But I like it.
Some happy snaps.
I’m looking forward to summer, so we can have people around and we can hang out in the garden of an evening.
Making a suitable area for a table and some chairs is a high priority on my ‘to do in the garden’ list.
September 19, 2009 Comments Off
Drawing on a gloomy day
September 17, 2009 Comments Off
Are you comfy enough, little kitty?
September 16, 2009 2 Comments
Good things from the world of me
I’m up to my eyeballs in work right now, which has had me a bit too busy to appreciate some of the good things going on around me.
So! Here are some good things, along with some of my day’s favourites on deviant art (I love to go there and just roam around, looking at lovely things):
1. Avocado Milkshakes
Selina Fenech mentioned having had avocado milkshakes while on holiday in Bali. Initially I found the idea as unappealing as the idea of grilling a cow pat, but after thinking about the creaminess of an avocado, I saw how it could possibly work.
A quick whirlwind tour of avocado milkshake recipes later (thankyou google!) I had made one and it tasted really good. Really really good.
And it’s healthy and filling too. Win. [Read more →]
September 9, 2009 Comments Off
