How did I do with my list? I got a lot of my list of cleaning and jobs done — but not all.
Enough to feel fine hosting Beth here.
Beth visited. ...and has now returned home. A good weekend.
Best thing about the past week and this blog was T & Kellie advising me to freeze the lentil soup.I did! In ziploc quart bags. It made my freezer look very frugal and utilitarian.
I have one bag's worth on the stove right now.
[note: in the future, freeze in smaller bags or smaller portions.... a quart bag of frozen-slab-of-soup is difficult to maneuver in a soup pot. It worked out alright though.]
After Beth left,* in the anticlimax of the weekend, I steeled myself against the creeping ennui.
Effective strategies:
- lie down on the sofa with the nap blanket, reading the newspaper on my phone, like someone on bedrest. but only for 35 min.
- get up and make the bed
- listen to The (Glenn Gould) Goldberg Variations ...and then the Mamas and the Papas
- do a load of laundry
- decide on dinner
- not spending money will feel better than spending money
- conveniently the freezer is full of soup!
- what else though.....
- there are potatoes in the cupboard.
- baked potato? .... too spartan for tonight.
- consult the Joy!
Tonight's dinner: Lentil-Split-Pea-Soup
and
Oven "French-Fried" Potatoes, page 300.
Hardly more effort than baked potatoes, with just a little bit of olive oil, and -pow- you've got a special treat, to go alongside your soup. Who needs McCains and OreIda?!
Other things to keep the day afloat:
- draw something, even something small
- watch Master of None
*[removed from this telling is the missing of the scheduled train — because of a subway trip that took 45 min. instead of the reliable 15 min.?...or because I hadn't allowed the possibility of that kind of delay, and so hadn't set aside an hour for the trip? — sold out Northeast Corridor trains...and an eventual ticket for 66% more than the original...and hanging out in Penn Station for a few hours with B., who graciously took all of this in stride and is still my friend.]
2 comments:
Freezer pro tip: buy one of those silicon muffin pans, freeze soups and broth and such in the muffin cups, and then pop it out and store them in a ziplock bag. I do that with broth and it works out to about a 1/2 cup portion in each muffin cup. Also, save celery bits, carrot peels, onion peels, chicken bones, and the like in a gallon sized bag in the freezer, and when it's full, throw it all in a pot, cover it with water, and simmer away from some delicious broth. I'm sort of in love with my freezer. :)
this is revolutionary, Kellie.
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