RustyRaven

My bed fan was on all night, it helps to reduce the stickiness a bit.

Many years ago I started making porridge mix and putting it into individual serving containers so I could take it to work. Then I decided that microwaving porridge was too messy so only make it at home now. But I've continued putting it in individual containers, and it's only just occured to me now that it would be much easier to make it in a big container and measure it as needed 🤦‍♀️

So, once the three containers I have now are used up I'm changing to a big container instead, which will reduce my porridge hassle factor considerably.

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You might feel like you don't know how to process what has happened, but what you are doing is processing it. Busy work is a way to distract your conscious mind and give your subconscious the room to process - your conscious thoughts might grab all the attention, but it is the subconscious that does all the real heavy lifting.

The grief of loss is extremely painful to go through, but Melbcat loved you and was loved in return. Death cannot take that away, and moving from present to past does not diminish it. The time you had together and the relationship you had will always be there, you are just viewing it from a different angle.

A prawn cocktail, a chicken burger and a sickly-sweet and gelatinous cheesecake, please.

I don't think I could choose between them.

Mountain

Temu. It seems fairly robust, although not as good quality as my other small (lidless) tin I got for $3.50 from and op shop years ago. I know exactly how much that one cost because they wrote the price directly onto the tin with a permanent marker that lived up to its name and never came off 🤣

This one is great because it is small enough to fit inside my toaster oven, and with the top on I don't need to worry about the dough rising too high and hitting the top. It should be a perfect fit for the pre-sliced cheese which is very handy too. Being able to finish one loaf in the toaster oven also meant I could start a fruit loaf while that one was finishing rising/cooking.

I think my next step is to sit down with a calculator and work out some different recipe sizes. The 400g is great for a small loaf in the breadmaker, but a touch too big for this tin and makes 5 rolls, when either 4 or 6 would work better. Its a good time to do it, as I've just used the last of my pre-measured 400g containers.

Just a fraction too much dough.

Next time I think 350g instead of 400g flour to start and see how that goes.

I'm testing my new sandwich loaf tin (the type with a lid to keep it square). I think I might have used too much dough, but it's hard to tell when you can't actually see how much it has risen. I guess I'll find out in about half an hour!

Mine went in very late, then they grew really slowly but are now covered with fruit. I'm just not sure I'll get much in the way of ripe tomatoes or if I should just plan for a ton of green tomato pickles.

I've just done a pumpkin headcount and (depending on how many are properly fertilised and continue to grow) it looks like I could end up with a dozen pumpkins this year. That's a lot of pumpkin for a single person. Hopefully they don't get too big.

There are also a lot of fruit on the tomato plants, but I still don't have any ripening.