I started off this morning with a washing "oh, not again!" you cry, but I was thinking about what I was doing as I put the wash into the tumble dryer and carried two wool jumpers that can't be tumble dried upstairs and laid them on a large towel on my bed.
So, what I was thinking was that I was actually starting to get organised with cycling my jumpers. Instead of just hanging clean ones away next to others (which were clean of course, but not newly washed) I am hanging the washed ones on the other side of the wardrobe, with the idea that I wear only the ones that are on the not-washed side of the wardrobe.
And to think it took me 67 years to get that far!
Mind you there was a long time in my life when I didn't have enough clothes to make that necessary....
So, that done I went to prepare the evening meal and was torn between making a macaroni cheese or a potato salad. I decided on the potato salad and had all the work done (including frying the lardons) when I discovered that I had no shallots or even onions. So the cooked potatoes are now in a jug covered with foil and the lardons are on a covered plate.
So it was back to square one again.
Now the macaroni is boiled and the cheese is grated, so all I have to do now is make the cheese sauce. I felt I was due a rest at this point so I came to talk to you lot out there.
Never mind, shallots will arrive tomorrow and otherwise nearly all the work is done for that meal too.
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8 comments:
You have traveling shallots? How extraordinary! Mine have to be fetched.
8-)
- M
Ah yes
archeline, it is only that I am having a full order delivered (as I can't manage a big shop) and the shallots are included.
Macaroni Cheese please Louise...er...Elaine!
Ta!
We all started off with English or that's what we're told in school.
Americans, Australians, all from the self-same pool.
I know I should understand you when I read your latest blog,
But, though I start off swimmingly, I end up in a fog!
What on earth are LARDONS? I've never heard the word.
Are they, maybe, little nuts, or part of a farmyard bird?
Are they little, are they big, do they squash or do they crumble?
To be so very ignorant, well, it makes me feel quite humble!
I start off as a so-so cook, who's longing to impress.
Maybe if I cooked lardons I would be a great success!
I love the rinkly rime.
Lardons (the word is French, so the spellchecker didn't recognise it either.) Larde fumee is the french for bacon and so lardons are little bits of bacon. I buy my bacon bits from a local source of bacon at the Farmers' Market.
Dickiebo: I recognise Cheese please, Louise, but cannot for the life of me remember whre it came from.
Well, m'deario, being as Dickiebo can't even remember yesterday, there's not much chance of my knowing that, now, is there?
Lardons may also be known more commonly in this country as cubetti di pancetta (no, it's not English either!), which is little cubes of italian smoked bacon.
to Mike G: yes, I did know that, but decided to keep things simple, as I had mentioned lardons.
I actually prefer pancetta but find it difficult to source.
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