Sunday I was up and about early, and decided I was fine again and I'd get out early for a longer walk. But I had to cut it back a bit when Hippolyta suddenly started hurting up a storm.
I had forgotten that, of course, when you're in a vax aftermath, your least resistant part will feel it. Hip healing is still in progress, and I forgot to allow for it. Home again, heating pad, and a surprise hour's sleep helped a lot.
In other dull news, I now have a massive red swelling around the vax injection site, quite impressive, so I guess that proves something. So that's today's organ recital complete.
Anyway I did get the promised curried black beans and rice done. The original recipe is for red kidney beans which I didn't have, but the black beans are dark red, so they looked fine.
As you see, quite a cast of characters, but simple cooking all the same. Most of the spices need one teaspoon, no complicated measuring.
And it includes a handful of spinach wilting at the end. This was really good. Spicy enough to finish up despite not having been so hungry earlier.
There's enough for three more meals after this one. This isn't exactly like the Whitsunday food of my youth, usually posh tea with cakes and fancy bits, after processions at church. Sunday was Whit. I wonder if Manchester still has the Whit Walks, religious processions through the streets. But I digress.
If you like Yeung Man Cooking as I do, but don't have many spices, you may need to invest in some. They last ages - those people insisting spices are no good at all, ew, after three months, are probably in the spice trade.
I use them much longer, and if you need to use a bit more to get the effect as they fade, that's fine. I just don't think we need spend energy getting worried about spices.
About the apricot sauce, I'm going to use the rest of the apricots to make more. They're just a couple of days underripe, better for cooking than raw, and they're wonderful in a sauce or sort of preserve thing.
Today, breakfast was apricot stuff on toast, which decided me to make more stuff. The apricot season is short, either underripe or past it before you know it, so I may order more to cook and freeze. Gary may be a beneficiary, ages since I gave him his favorite, jam, any jam.
Happy day everyone, I was planning an afternoon on the deck, the rain having moved on. Reading, birdwatching, who am I kidding, sleeping.
A deck sighting, probably from last year's scattered seeds, a lone poppy among the lemon balm. About ten minutes into deck time it started to rain.
Fluffy (Esmeralda Flufferina) sez. As if she ever banded together with anyone, but she thinks humans should.
