Weekend accomplishments
Saturday was Silent Book Club, so after making breakfast I got in the shower right away. I went to the grocery store, came back and and put away the groceries and cleaned up the kitchen, then went back out for book club. (I'm currently reading The Sympathizer and keep being surprised by how good it is, then reminding myself that it won a Pulitzer.) Coffeeweed Cottage currently has this drink that's like an Arnold Palmer but sweetened with blueberry purée, it's perfect for this weather.
When I got home I dusted my bedroom and folded some dish towels, and my Redrum caftan had come in the mail so I put that in the washing machine. (I never, ever wear clothes without washing them first and I'm baffled at how anyone can do that.) Then I decided I just had time to watch the new episode of Fantasmas before supper. Everyone from Los Espookys is gradually showing up and this week it was Bernardo Velasco, who looks like every guy I dated in my 20s put into a blender. (Mostly they were okay guys, so this does not make me feel any kind of way about Velasco.) Oh, and HBO is now streaming Problemista, so I made a note of that for later in the week.
David made potato soup and these really good tomato and cheese tarts in puff pastry. He seems to be baking with tomatoes a lot lately, which is perfectly fine with me. Afterwards I watched a few more episodes of The Bear, which I had started Friday night. "More Fak Brothers" is gonna be divisive with the audience, I can already tell. John Cena was a total stunt cast, but also he did make me laugh with the "haunting" stuff so I guess it worked on me.
Sunday I hadn't been inspired to make anything special for breakfast, so I just made pancakes again, but to not be too repetitive I made chocolate chip pancakes.
Restaurant quality!
After cleaning up from breakfast I made banana pudding. Rouse's was selling a bag of about-to-be-overripe bananas for $1.49, and my main problem with banana pudding is it's always so hard to find bananas that aren't still a little green, and there's no time to let them ripen. So I grabbed the bag, a one-pound bag of those knockoff nilla wafers, and a couple boxes of banana cream pudding. Actually I find the non-Nabisco nilla wafers work better when you haven't made it the night before (which I didn't have time for, because it was nearly 5:00 when I got home from the book club). They're cheaper, which means they're not as dense, so they soften up faster.
I changed the bed sheets, and after showering I peeled the remaining 5 bananas and put them in the freezer. I also cut the watermelon I'd bought the day before in half, and attempted to ball (hehe) half of it. But it was so ripe and juicy that the balls kind of just kept falling apart and I wound up with a big bowl of small, irregular watermelon chunks. Oh well, still good. I covered the other half and put it in the fridge, so people can also have watermelon slices if they want. I made the 'rents avocado toast with a couple of leftover hardboiled eggs sliced on top. I did a load of laundry. Amazon delivered my new essential oil diffuser, so I opened that and read the instructions. (My old one still works but I feel like it's not dispersing the mist very well, like you have to stick your face right in it to smell it.)
Dinner was going to be taco shells and cheese (shells as in pasta shells) and there wasn't much prep, so I did what there was, then poured some wine and got myself some goldfish crackers and decided to finish The Bear. It felt like half a season, which makes sense because I think next season is going to be the last, and some of it felt like filler. Still, even a mediocre season of The Bear is better than most stuff on television.
After supper I decided to re-watch Murder on Middle Beach. I didn't sleep very well on Saturday and was really tired, so I wanted something I could just nod off in front of if I needed to.
Rouse's only had 2-pound blocks of Velveeta and I only needed 8 ounces for the taco shells and cheese. I am really, really tempted to make fudge with the rest, something I know exists but that I've never attempted. I have made several quite good chocolate cakes with mayonnaise, this is the same principle!
When I got home I dusted my bedroom and folded some dish towels, and my Redrum caftan had come in the mail so I put that in the washing machine. (I never, ever wear clothes without washing them first and I'm baffled at how anyone can do that.) Then I decided I just had time to watch the new episode of Fantasmas before supper. Everyone from Los Espookys is gradually showing up and this week it was Bernardo Velasco, who looks like every guy I dated in my 20s put into a blender. (Mostly they were okay guys, so this does not make me feel any kind of way about Velasco.) Oh, and HBO is now streaming Problemista, so I made a note of that for later in the week.
David made potato soup and these really good tomato and cheese tarts in puff pastry. He seems to be baking with tomatoes a lot lately, which is perfectly fine with me. Afterwards I watched a few more episodes of The Bear, which I had started Friday night. "More Fak Brothers" is gonna be divisive with the audience, I can already tell. John Cena was a total stunt cast, but also he did make me laugh with the "haunting" stuff so I guess it worked on me.
Sunday I hadn't been inspired to make anything special for breakfast, so I just made pancakes again, but to not be too repetitive I made chocolate chip pancakes.
Restaurant quality!
After cleaning up from breakfast I made banana pudding. Rouse's was selling a bag of about-to-be-overripe bananas for $1.49, and my main problem with banana pudding is it's always so hard to find bananas that aren't still a little green, and there's no time to let them ripen. So I grabbed the bag, a one-pound bag of those knockoff nilla wafers, and a couple boxes of banana cream pudding. Actually I find the non-Nabisco nilla wafers work better when you haven't made it the night before (which I didn't have time for, because it was nearly 5:00 when I got home from the book club). They're cheaper, which means they're not as dense, so they soften up faster.
I changed the bed sheets, and after showering I peeled the remaining 5 bananas and put them in the freezer. I also cut the watermelon I'd bought the day before in half, and attempted to ball (hehe) half of it. But it was so ripe and juicy that the balls kind of just kept falling apart and I wound up with a big bowl of small, irregular watermelon chunks. Oh well, still good. I covered the other half and put it in the fridge, so people can also have watermelon slices if they want. I made the 'rents avocado toast with a couple of leftover hardboiled eggs sliced on top. I did a load of laundry. Amazon delivered my new essential oil diffuser, so I opened that and read the instructions. (My old one still works but I feel like it's not dispersing the mist very well, like you have to stick your face right in it to smell it.)
Dinner was going to be taco shells and cheese (shells as in pasta shells) and there wasn't much prep, so I did what there was, then poured some wine and got myself some goldfish crackers and decided to finish The Bear. It felt like half a season, which makes sense because I think next season is going to be the last, and some of it felt like filler. Still, even a mediocre season of The Bear is better than most stuff on television.
After supper I decided to re-watch Murder on Middle Beach. I didn't sleep very well on Saturday and was really tired, so I wanted something I could just nod off in front of if I needed to.
Rouse's only had 2-pound blocks of Velveeta and I only needed 8 ounces for the taco shells and cheese. I am really, really tempted to make fudge with the rest, something I know exists but that I've never attempted. I have made several quite good chocolate cakes with mayonnaise, this is the same principle!