Jesse Walsh along today for a couple of hours in the garden, getting rid of most of the
nasty weeds. There are still the grasses to go. He also finally removed the dead
Camellia that had really been
dying since we moved in here. I still don't understand why it declined and died.
Baked bread again today, something I've been doing
for over 17 years. I had been mildly
concerned by the apperance of the starter yesterday, but there was no obvious problem. The bread came into the oven 4 hours,
40 minutes after it started to rise, about normal. The only issue was that at the end I
couldn't get it out of the form! After much messing around, discovered that I had not put
in the paper as cleanly as I should have, leaving a black corner that fused to the form:
Pork and doùfu for breakfast today. I have
the recipe reasonably repeatable now. But maybe it's too much. How much do I need for
breakfast? 180 g rice (like today) or between 150 and 180 g of noodles. Meat (“protein”)?
Typically 90 to 120 g. Here I had 60 g of pork, 110 g of doùfu. And 40 g of bean sauce.
Does that add up? In any case, I think less would be good. Fixed.
ALDI have a competition running:
send in a photo of a receipt, and have a chance to win a holiday cruise.
For each $30 spent you receive one chance to win. Does that mean that you can submit a $100
receipt for three entries? And what date must they have? We have ALDI receipts going back
18 years. That could amount to quite
a few entries.
But we don't really want a holiday cruise, and in any case we're missing one of the
requirements for entry:
If so, it's a Disa bracteata, the “South African weed orchid”. We'll see as it develops: it's almost across the road
from our house entrance.
This page contains (roughly) yesterday's and today's entries. I have
a horror of reverse chronological documents, so
all my diary entries are chronological. This page normally contains the last two days,
but if I fall behind it may contain more. You can find older entries in
the archive. Note that I often update a diary entry
a day or two after I write it.
Do you have a comment about something I have written? This is a diary, not a
“blog”, and there is
deliberately no provision for directly adding comments. It's also not a vehicle
for third-party content. But I welcome feedback and try to
reply to all messages I receive. See the diary overview for more details. If you do
send me a message relating to something I have written, please indicate
whether you'd prefer me not to mention your name. Otherwise
I'll assume that it's OK to do so.
