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shewhomustI opened the last pack of coffee filters to make our breakfast coffee yesterday. Forty filters, forty days: will we be out of lockdown by the time I need more? Not necessarily. Add them to the list for my next online order.
Also yesterday, I went into a shop for the first time in three weeks: last time waa to collect a prescription fordurham_rambler from Boots in the North Road, yesterday to collect my own prescription. With the difference that we went to the larger Boots at the Arnison Centre, which is more spacious and airy (and a more reliable source of eye-drops, if it comes to that). We bump-started the car (there are some advantages to living on a hill) and durham_rambler drove me there, and sat in the car while I went to Boots - and then, since it was next door and I had to wait for my prescription to be filled, to M&S. durham_rambler asked "Was Marks busy?" and of course the answer is, "It was at capacity," operating a queuing system, one in and one out. I could have stockpiled half-price post-Easter goodies, but I showed restraint - and I could have bought toilet rolls, too, but since we don't need any, I didn't. Flour's still out of the question, though.
Speaking of which: lunch was soup from the freezer, with the rolls I'd baked the previous day. The recipe calls them 'Cretan onion and olive rolls': you add chopped raw onion, chopped olives and dried mint (which last I forgot to do: I don't think I have any dried mint, and I had meant to try za'atar, but I forgot) and shape them by coiling up long sausages of dough. There was no chance of doing that last, the dough was much too soft and sticky. I was generous with the olive oil, which made it possible to knead, and then just made rolls, fewer and larger than usual (nine instead of a dozen). They rose very satisfactorily, anyway: was this because it was all white flour? because the dough was so wet and soft? or because I was baking earlier than usual, and the starter was livelier?
In the evening, it being Wednesday, we met for the Elm Tree pub quiz, hooray! This is a work in progress:durham_rambler and I have to find a way of meeting by Zoom which allows us both to paricipate, preferably in the same room, without setting up horrible feedback. But it was good to see people, and we all enjoyed it enough that we agreed, same time next week!
Also yesterday, I went into a shop for the first time in three weeks: last time waa to collect a prescription for
durham_rambler from Boots in the North Road, yesterday to collect my own prescription. With the difference that we went to the larger Boots at the Arnison Centre, which is more spacious and airy (and a more reliable source of eye-drops, if it comes to that). We bump-started the car (there are some advantages to living on a hill) and durham_rambler drove me there, and sat in the car while I went to Boots - and then, since it was next door and I had to wait for my prescription to be filled, to M&S. durham_rambler asked "Was Marks busy?" and of course the answer is, "It was at capacity," operating a queuing system, one in and one out. I could have stockpiled half-price post-Easter goodies, but I showed restraint - and I could have bought toilet rolls, too, but since we don't need any, I didn't. Flour's still out of the question, though.Speaking of which: lunch was soup from the freezer, with the rolls I'd baked the previous day. The recipe calls them 'Cretan onion and olive rolls': you add chopped raw onion, chopped olives and dried mint (which last I forgot to do: I don't think I have any dried mint, and I had meant to try za'atar, but I forgot) and shape them by coiling up long sausages of dough. There was no chance of doing that last, the dough was much too soft and sticky. I was generous with the olive oil, which made it possible to knead, and then just made rolls, fewer and larger than usual (nine instead of a dozen). They rose very satisfactorily, anyway: was this because it was all white flour? because the dough was so wet and soft? or because I was baking earlier than usual, and the starter was livelier?
In the evening, it being Wednesday, we met for the Elm Tree pub quiz, hooray! This is a work in progress:
durham_rambler and I have to find a way of meeting by Zoom which allows us both to paricipate, preferably in the same room, without setting up horrible feedback. But it was good to see people, and we all enjoyed it enough that we agreed, same time next week!
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Date: 2020-04-18 06:12 am (UTC)