This was a Jamie Oliver recipe from his Five Ingredient series. It was only okay. Lamb, onions, eggplant, curry sauce and yogurt. I’m sure his was better partly because of his excellent fry pan that requires no oil (look at the pools of grease in mine!)
My cold cucumber soups vary in result pretty widely. If I stick to the Love & Lemons recipe, however, the batch tends to be good (a dash of honey instead of a dash of hot sauce). The soup I made two days ago was outstanding. Incentive enough to keep fresh dill in the house.
As Jamie Oliver likes to say, “I whacked it with a little olive oil.”
I learned how to use the microphone on my computer today. Sort of. I guess it needs to learn my speech patterns because so far its mistakes make the text nearly unintelligible. Also — it adds two spaces after periods. Really? Is that because I haven’t upgraded to Windows 11 yet?
I’ll keep at it. It’s more direct than recording a Note on my phone, emailing the Note to myself, and then copying that text into a word doc.
Blah. Blah. Blah. Right? Very minor compared to typepad closing down which, in my humble opinion, ranks as technology cataclysm.
This morning’s swap shop find. “Maybe I’ll cover a few pillows,” is a thing I tell myself.
Ken’s rebuilt doors (all six of them along the upstairs hallway) are a huge improvement to the old grubby louvred ones. Horrible to clean.
As usual, a wall and ceiling repair project grew and grew until it included replacing baseboard trim, sanding and painting chipped baseboards, updating the light fixture, and rebuilding every one of those six doors after cutting out the louvres.
Have a good Saturday! I am shortly off to my library’s semi-annual puzzle swap!
Dee~ ooh, a puzzle swap! The baseboards in this place have 4 lil ledges that can hold dust and dirt. Who would design such upkeep and then install it in a senior building where mobility can be a problem? Crazy.
That is crazy. I never was committed to keeping those louvres clean. If I had been (cause they’re downstairs too), I’d have cleaned a half door a week. Ugh.
The puzzle swap was great! Dropped off seven and brought home six.
I’ll definitely give the soup a try. Your new doors are lovely. I hate louvered doors. We have three panels in our laundry room that look grubby within days of being cleaned.
Ours need cleaning front and back too. Tool required to get up in there. Yuck.
I share your dislike of louvered doors … ditto for venetian blinds, which are all over our “new” house … I swore I’d replace them, but it’s already been six years since we moved (how is that possible?) … in any case, kudos to Ken for rebuilding rather than replacing the doors!
Slatted blinds. Yes. Also ick. The funny thing about rebuilding the doors? Ken’s pretty sure that it was quicker than trying to paint them.
WOW. I am super impressed. Ya know, I actually bought one of those blind cleaning tools at one of those box stores (where you’re probably breathing plastic fumes as though you were laying up a fiberglass corporate fishing vessel) and tried it once. Didn’t work. Got out the rags and pine sol. That was 10 years ago.
Your doors look so great!
Where’d you get those headphones? Do you like them?
When I broke my wrist and couldn’t type or write I used the microphone. Never mastered it, always had to back track or fill in gaps later. ugh!
If you have headphones w/good mic, maybe resort to chatgpt if you have to. You can teach it to do stuff that is later easy to humanize. Trade offs. sigh…
Pillow fabric, delicious!
Lambbaaaah. I’m always looking for good recipes as supposedly its better than eating beef and sometimes I get that carnivore coyote kind of a stomach brain.
Thanks, Dee.xx
The closet doors look AMAZING!!!!!! I also have fits trying to dust window blinds.
He did a great job!