Jeez. This morning dragged by in a blur of too much screen time and avoiding playing Lego. Arrrrgh. With another four weeks indoors, I do really need to find some sort of mojo again. The most constructive thing I managed this morning was making a shopping list for going to Auchan tomorrow.
Talking of shops, we're definitely running low on things so today's lunch was a real user upper of pasta pesto, cold meat, cheese, leftover chicken from last night's dinner, and anything else we could find in the fridge.
The fridge freezer has been playing up. It continues to leak water on a daily basis and the internal light has burnt out but there's been more problems this week. Initially, Iain had accidentally left it ajar at the weekend so it had frosted up and although we could get the door closed, just, it really needed defrosted again. Turns out, it wasn't the ice that was preventing the door from closing properly. The whole element inside has slipped down, making it tricky to close the drawer properly, and therefore shut the actual freezer door. A bit of playing around with it can get the drawer in, but I think this is just another nail in the coffin. New fridge freezer purchase coming after lockdown, methinks. Damn.
Iain's been moaning about the length of his hair. It really is getting very long. Or it was. He finally got me to go at it again with the clippers and, this time, a pair of scissors! I reckon I've done okay. All things considered! William also wanted in on the act so Iain duly obliged.
For dinner tonight, I really had a bit of a throw together kitchen adventure and it was an absolute winner. With chicken, bacon and cream in the fridge, it was odds on for the easy favourite: carbonara. But, there was also half a cauliflower needing used up, and some potatoes, and a bit of an idea started forming in my head after reading the back of a sage and onion stuffing mix pack that I'd been forced to bulk buy at Christmas. I was going to try a sort of gratin type thing and I'd use Mary Berry's smoked haddock gratin recipe as my basis.
I poached the chicken breasts to keep them from drying out too much, fried off the bacon bits, added double the cheese Mary calls for, and instead of topping with smoked paprika, I layered on Mrs. Crimble's sage and onion stuffing mix. Oh. My. God. It was incredible. I could easily have eaten the whole tray. Iain actually had to give me a bit of a loving nod that I'd probably had more that enough. ;-) Amazing!
Catch you later,
Lorna. ;-)
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