I seldom use my slow cooker these days, probably because I work from home and enjoy the physical process of cooking after a day staring at my computer. Mr Heavenly uses the slow cooker occasionally; he has made a temperature control adaptor so he can turn it into a sous vide!
Mr Heavenly is busy upstairs tidying away piles of books, admittedly into a different storage place than agreed yesterday but that’s fine. I think he intends to take a couple of days off soon to do a major blitz of the large spare room ready for decorating. The boys’ books have been purged but there are shelves of random childhood things to get rid of. The Elder has already cleared his wardrobe cupboard but the Younger needs to tackle his when he is home.
@mark_in_manchester - you're quite right - using a slow cooker on the Ark would be far too expensive, as well as being a bit hard on the rather frail electrics...
The Dragon is alight 24/7, so provides heat for cooking, the radiators (all two of them) and hot water. I'm usually here for much of the day, so I can top him up with Coal now and then, and clean out Ash and Clinker every twelve hours (10pm and 10am seems to have become the norm).
Another grey, windy, and cool day in Arkland the Chill, but the above-mentioned Dragon is busy cooking CHICKEN and ROAST SPUDS for my lunch.
Bit too much lentil in the soup today; you could have hung wallpaper with it.
Brought a winter top into circulation - hopefully. It's a stretch fabric, but with a crew neckline, which I dislike. So I cut several inches of notch, and went round the raw edges in tiny blanket stitch.
Not 4 o'clock yet and the shades of evening are closing in. It's the feeling that's there's no point in starting anything, the day's practically over that I hate. Though of course there's dinner still to be got - salmon en croute - which I hope to make a bit more thrilling with the addition of Boursin.
I use my slow cookers a lot - the large one is on even as we speak, cooking the chicken for our roast meal.
I have barely noticed the hour change - we slept in this morning for some reason and I was, shall we say, not early for church (not exactly late but there was no time to spare).
I had a lovely lunch, courtesy of my son. Roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and 5 veg. His wife made two crumbles: rhubarb, apple and pear, using fruit from our gardens. Leftover portion brought home. I’ve still got birthday cake I brought back on Friday too.
I didn’t get a second plateful to bring home, but a lasagne instead. Not frozen, so that’s another meal I need to use or freeze soon. That reminds me: time to check the slow cooker. Today is all about food.
Up at my usual time so about ten to six rather than ten to seven. It meant I could do the ironing before I went to church. It very much needed doing as husband had run out of polo shirts and there was stuff in there from our holiday we got back from over a month ago. I had a quick turn round before heading to the cemetery for the Polish All Souls Day service. As always an excellent service with people coming from all over to attend. The only slightly alarming moment was the group of supporters of a Polish football club who added football chants to the end of the Polish national anthem and then lit flairs. We then went to one of the (disused) chapels for tea and biscuits, a good chat and to warm up - it was rather cold and rather damp at times.
This evening we've just watched The Thursday Murder Club. It didn't get great reviews but we enjoyed it for what it was, which wasn't great drama but more akin to a well-made cosy afternoon crime drama.
Woke from dream a which puzzled me so I couldn't get back to sleep. No idea of the time. After a while I put on an audio book , which normally eases me back to sleep - but that didn't work, so I started fretting that it might be nearly time to get up anyway. Eventually put a light on, to find that it hadn't even reached 5 o'clock Listened to the radio for an hour, then got up and started the day.
Been very busy, as had visitors for lunch (including 2 youngest grandsons). By the time they left it was too late for my afternoon nap (how I envied those little boys who were probably asleep in the car within ten minutes of leaving!).
Am struggling on, trying to get to 'normal' bedtime in the hope of a better sleep tonight
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Mr Heavenly is busy upstairs tidying away piles of books, admittedly into a different storage place than agreed yesterday but that’s fine. I think he intends to take a couple of days off soon to do a major blitz of the large spare room ready for decorating. The boys’ books have been purged but there are shelves of random childhood things to get rid of. The Elder has already cleared his wardrobe cupboard but the Younger needs to tackle his when he is home.
I need to go for a walk.
The Dragon is alight 24/7, so provides heat for cooking, the radiators (all two of them) and hot water. I'm usually here for much of the day, so I can top him up with Coal now and then, and clean out Ash and Clinker every twelve hours (10pm and 10am seems to have become the norm).
Another grey, windy, and cool day in Arkland the Chill, but the above-mentioned Dragon is busy cooking CHICKEN and ROAST SPUDS for my lunch.
Brought a winter top into circulation - hopefully. It's a stretch fabric, but with a crew neckline, which I dislike. So I cut several inches of notch, and went round the raw edges in tiny blanket stitch.
Not 4 o'clock yet and the shades of evening are closing in. It's the feeling that's there's no point in starting anything, the day's practically over that I hate. Though of course there's dinner still to be got - salmon en croute - which I hope to make a bit more thrilling with the addition of Boursin.
Wood smoke is rising from the chimneys of adjacent Arks, and it is time for SOUP to be prepared.
I have barely noticed the hour change - we slept in this morning for some reason and I was, shall we say, not early for church (not exactly late but there was no time to spare).
I didn’t get a second plateful to bring home, but a lasagne instead. Not frozen, so that’s another meal I need to use or freeze soon. That reminds me: time to check the slow cooker. Today is all about food.
This evening we've just watched The Thursday Murder Club. It didn't get great reviews but we enjoyed it for what it was, which wasn't great drama but more akin to a well-made cosy afternoon crime drama.
Been very busy, as had visitors for lunch (including 2 youngest grandsons). By the time they left it was too late for my afternoon nap (how I envied those little boys who were probably asleep in the car within ten minutes of leaving!).
Am struggling on, trying to get to 'normal' bedtime in the hope of a better sleep tonight