Friday, 25 September 2009
Shifting Kitchens
Apologies for not posting anything of interest recently! I'm shifting house and it's a hideous process which makes everything difficult, so there hasn't been a great deal of interesting food coming from the kitchen recently. However, the new place we're moving to has a lovely kitchen and I'm just itching to get cooking in it. The big question, of course, is what on earth should I cook?? Comfort-food classics (it's autumn, so think stews and soups with fresh bread) or shall I try a brand new recipe in a brand new kitchen? Any and all suggestions welcome and I promise a proper post on the First Supper!
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Good luck with the shift (is it over?)!! Looking forward to hearing all about the First Supper though I'm short on ideas just now. Gnocchi perhaps? It's great, hearty comfort food.
ReplyDeleteOh what a great idea! I've never made gnocchi, but always wanted to, so that would be a great comfort food + new recipe to try. I read an interesting recipe on Delicious:Days, but do you have a favourite recipe that I should try?
ReplyDeleteShifting has sort-of finished. It was not fun. At all. 6 flights of stairs, endless piles of stuff. I swear we must have done about 100 trips up and down yesterday, all the way lugging furniture, books, clothes, kitchen supplies etc etc etc. After only the first trip up the stairs we realised just how awful it was going to be. We were still moving belongings at 10pm last night - I felt like an ant shuttling back and forth and up and down, except I bet an ant's legs never wobble with exertion! Oh, and to really add a cherry to the day, the stupid shits at the property place didn't give us the right keys for the garage, but we didn't realise until we got to the time to shift garage stuff at 9pm last night, by which point of course the property place was shut (and they don't have an after-hours number) Our rental van had to be back at 9am this morning too, so now we have to PUSH the fracking motorbikes (because they're not yet going or registered and nor is Andrew licenced even if they were sorted) from our old house to the new place. Thanks so much property people - you dumb-asses. We were still cleaning the old flat at midnight last night, and then had to come back here and reconstruct our bed before we could sleep. Today I feel as though I've done about 5 pump classes in succession. Man alive, my arms, shoulders, back, wrists, calves, ass and everything between are sore! I'm dying to sort my kitchen but I just don't have the mental or physical strength! :-P
However, the up side is that #1. Our new flat is lovely and oh-so sunny and light and spacious. And #2...this morning my long-awaited copy (hot off the presses from the publisher - an advance copy before it goes on sale in bookshops in the UK) of a book by one of my fave authors (the latest book in a very lengthy series) was delivered. It's my reward for all that hard shifting work. HURRAH! Now if only I had the strength to hold the book up and keep my eyes open...