So on today's Menu we have:
Cooking: 3 Batches of Olives, Cheese Stuffed Salmon Rice Balls, Char Sui Pork & Crispy Veg Spring Rolls, Mulled Port Wine Jelly, 4 Batches of Mustard, Mustard & Pepper Infused Olive Oil, Honey Vinegar, Chinese Spiced Rice Wine, Ice Tea Cordial, Green Olive Paste, Rosemary & Mint Jelly, Lemon Balsamic Jelly, Lemon Vinegar, Lemon Infused Olive Oil, Herbed Vinegar, Mint Sauce,Rose Water Cordial, Lemon & Mustard Chutney, Salt Preserved Lemons & Limes!!!! Plus Sticky Rice Hotpot and Chinese Greens for the Girls tonight.
Growing: Apple Cucumbers, Lemon Basil, Cos Lettuce, Mignonette Lettuce, Golden Shallots, Spinach, Radishes & Spring Onions to start.
Reading: "Spice Notes" by Ian Hemphill (Up to "P") - Yes still .... been a little busy!
Project: Clean House for Mind Harmony
Education: Certificate IV in Small Business Management
Social: ROCKBAND!!!!!!!!!!!! Rock out MF!!!!!!!!!!!
Logo: For my Mummy
Oddity: My Cat decrees it's Christmas NOW!!!!!!!!!!
Cooking:
Quite the list huh???? As I said, have to test cook 150 product lines over the next few weeks so here's 23 of them, which i have to have done by next Friday. Phew!!!!!!!!
As for the Cheese Stuffed Salmon Rice Balls & Char Sui Pork & Crispy Veg Spring Rolls, there just to use up leftovers. And we have Sticky Rice Hotpot and Chinese Greens for the Girls, who are coming round tonight for Rockband (see below). And also on this weeks menu is Cumquat and Pineapple Marinated Pickled Pork Skewers, Kangaroo Mince Tacos and finding some way to use Lambs Fry. Why must Lachlan continuously decide we should eat offal cause its cheap?????
Growing:
So last night i picked up Apple Cucumbers, Lemon Basil, Cos Lettuce & Mignonette Lettuce seedling as well as Spinach, Radishes & Spring Onion Seeds. I also found a couple of Golden Shallots that had sprouted in the potato basket.
Still have about 150 Mutant Cherry Tomato Plants of Doom (TM) to plant somewhere too. The story behind the Mutant Cherry Tomato Plants of Doom (TM) started when I last decided to plant out a garden (this gardening thing is a continual failing of mine, where every 6 months or so i decide i want a veg & herb garden again, which eventually fails and i despair, and then 6 months later i start again). Inevitably everything died, and i despaired :( but then 1 remaining tomato plant (unidentified) came back from the dead by striking a root straight through the base of the pot and into the ground. It went ballistic and grew with nothing but the occasional sprinkling of grey water from Lachlan or myself (when we bother to remember) Did i mention it was 8 foot tall? Towards the end we were getting a 2L ice ream tub of cherry tomatoes ranging in size up to ping pong balls every 2nd day. Unfortunately during those horrific stories we had, we lost the cherry tomato plant, the trellis had blown over and snapped off the tap root. Lachlan was devastated. When his boss asked "did you lose anything in last nights storm?", Lachlan replied " yeah my Cherry Tomato plant". His boss said that it was lucky it wasn't anything important like a roof or a fridge, to which Lachlan replied "Yeah but i like it more than i like most people, it gave me cherry tomatoes and asked for nothing in return". A very typical Lachlan answer. What was not typical was that Lachlan took the last of the fruit and dried the seeds!!! then he even went so far as to plant out a whole heap of them in a pot. Unfortunately they all grew (see photo's below). And now i have nowhere to put them. I'm thinking of just putting them straight down the side of the house. We need a little shade through there :)
Reading:
"Spice Notes" by Ian Hemphill (Up to "P") - Yes still .... been a little busy! See above and below peeps :P
Project:
Clean House for Mind Harmony - So I'm trying to keep my house clean and sparkling, because i found out that when m,y house is clean my life is much happier. Though I am wondering if it isn't making me a little batty????
Education:
Certificate IV in Small Business Management. ALMOST THERE. Final day of NEIS training is Tuesday. Hopeful and nervous. It's now or never time.
Social:
ROCKBAND!!!!!!!!!!!! Rock out MF!!!!!!!!!!! Lach DL Pearl Jam's "Ten" album for Rockband today. Something for Melanie and Kate to look forward to tonight (I'm dreading it). Because that's what my life needs ... more Eddie Vedder.
Logo: For my Mummy, So she can see my logo.
Oddity:
And as a final note.
So as i am sitting here Blogging, my Darling Princess Cindypoos (our gorgeous grey kitty) decided to drag in her Christmas stocking from out of her toy box, while mewling at the top of her lungs. Think i may have to sit down and explain to her that Christmas only come once a year.
