Spice sorting turned out to be a lot more effort than I expected, largely because the project kept getting bigger as I went!
But I have now cleaned out and rearranged all the herbs & spices, including freshly grinding a lot of the spices which were close to empty. I was very low on a lot of things and am completely out of ground cinnamon, which hampered my attempt to mix a new batch of mixed spice as well. I now have a shopping list to replace all the things I'm out of.
My pantry is mostly pretty good, there's just a few areas that got a bit out of control, especially the spices. I had a bit much clutter and ended up with bits spread everywhere, then I'd buy more of things because I couldn't find them. And then of course I moved house which just compounded the chaos.
I've got a spot cleared now to store all the bulk stuff (I mostly buy whole spices and grind my own). There are a few things in there I don't really use to get rid of, and most of the older packets are pretty much empty.
Everyone seems to be at the doctors recently!
I get the results from my blood test tomorrow, last time it showed low iron and vit. D, and given I've not been anywhere near as good as I should have been at taking the recommended suplements I expect I will have the same result again.
Yes, it is. It is supposed to smell like that, but it's not something I actually liked. I kept seeing things about how it was really great in egg dishes so I thought I'd give it a try, but I really didn't like it.
I've been sorting out my spices etc. and some of that stuff has been around way too long - expiry dates 8-10 years ago! I think it's time to toss most of it and buy fresh.
I would also like to question my past self as to why she bought so much of so many different types of salt. I have rock salt, ground salt and salt flakes, all with iodised and non-iodised versions. Plus pink salt and black salt. The only saving grace is that salt doesn't go off. Although the black salt smells like it has and I haven't liked any of the uses recommended for it, so I've made the executive decision to toss that one out. Now I only have 7 different types of salt to manage!
I just went to post my bowel screening test back and realised I forgot to actually put the tubes in the envelope. I actually had the envelope in the delivery slot when I realised, luckily I hadn't let go yet.
The Temu return was much more successful. The dodgy ill-fitting shoes are now out of my life.
How does tempura manage to be so simple and still be so yummy?
I made a chicken casserole for the freezer and the chicken pieces shrunk a lot more than expected. So I ended up with less serves than I was expecting and a lot of excess gravy. I've frozen the gravy seperately, it should work well as a gravy to pour over a pan-fried piece of chicken, so I guess it wasn't too disapointing.
I think it's available at 45 but they don't send it unsolicited until 50? I just did my 'welcome to 50!' bowel screening, and the nice thing about having that out of the way is that I no longer have to go to the toilet thinking 'poo! I should save that for science!'
I'm glad I got my mulching done when I did, working outside in this humidity is pretty icky. I'm trying to chip away at the rest of the work a little bit at a time but it's definitely not the weather for sustained effort.
I have evaporative cooling, so on warm nights I generally leave the fan on and have the window open to keep the air moving through. The bed fan is nice because it blows air under the covers (which is a very light cotton doona - I can't sleep uncovered) and it has a remote control, so if I wake up too warm I can turn it on/up without moving. It also helps to remove moisture from the bed so it doesn't feel quite so sticky.
More tree blood.