Cooking extravaganza

Yesterday, to use the time of my sister's Celebration of Life far away, and the part I'd written, see yesterday's post, I decided on an afternoon of cooking prep. Displacement activity.

I don't like mashing the bananas for banana bread, but you can do it ahead and freeze it.And I liked the quick quiche enough to actually buy bell peppers to do it again.Also granny Smith apples, plenty for prepping filling for future crumbles. 

This is how I eat well, when the prep is already done when I decide to cook. 

Some of the  quiche ended up as yesterday's supper.

And the bananas and apples, the latter macerated and completely ready for filling s couple of crumbles, are all in the freezer until called on.

Full disclosure, the resulting debris in the sink

I had already made leek, potato and parsley soup, and I'll do this again, really happy combo, the parsley lifting it up to very good.

All the trimmings from food prep go into the stock bag in the freezer ready to make stock next time.  I feel so smug!

Meanwhile I read this hilarious mystery, another one set in a retirement community, the kind which keeps on surprising

And I'm proceeding with the two socks-in-one project

The different color yarns are scrap yarn setting up the ability to insert a heel in the lower one, sock one, then a separation point, and then the top of the picture is the start of sock two. This will end in a toe, after which I separate the two socks, insert heels, and a cuff for one, toe for the other.

I've changed her pattern a bit because I think it's more complicated than it need be, but basically I'm following the idea. I will do shortrow heels, more comfortable than the bind off design she likes. I'll do the toes as in the pattern though.

I don't recommend this idea for beginners. You need experience in knitting socks in order to fathom how this will work. It's interesting to try though.

Having seen off a couple of bags of Handsome Son's stuff via Freecycle, I'm off this morning to pick up a freecycled toaster oven to replace my old one which is nearly defunct. 

And there's a possibility I will be receiving an old Kindle Paperwhite today, all being well, locally. All being well.

Here's some women's art to be going on with

Happy day everyone, cook on, and if you're not the household cook, enjoy being served.

Pray for the people in Ukraine suffering the revenge today for the destruction of the Crimea-Russia bridge on Putin's birthday.