So today I spent most of my time on housekeeping. You know how it is. Whichever end of the spectrum from neatfreak to slob is your comfort zone, at some point the scale tips. That is when you need to give up all the fun things for a time to pay attention to those things that make the world go around. Things like clean clothes, clean dishes, clean counters and so on and so forth. I am satisfied that I can live with what remains.
Damn I am plastic wrap challenged. No matter which plastic wrap we buy it seems useless. Won't even cling to itself. Just saying as I finished wrestling with a piece and losing. I need an elastic band to keep the damn plastic wrap on the bowl. What is the point? OK my rant is over.
Had a few ideas about dinner tonight. Ultimately decided to use the cherry tomato sauce and some shrimp over pasta. So the shrimp are peeled and I massaged them, as one does, if one pays any attention whatever to Madhur Jaffrey. I looked at the tomato sauce and decided it was pretty skimpy for two people so I speed roasted some cocktail tomatoes with some garlic, olive oil, salt, sugar etc. and tried to get a bit of char on them for some additional flavour elements. I tasted them and found the skins to be quite tough so I sent them for a spin in the Thermomix. I think they will be just fine.
Now I feel I have earned the right to do what I've been wanting to do all day long -- stick my head into The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Vegetable Cookbook.
Edited to remove the underline that made it look like a live link to the book.
