Tuesday involved using that cauliflower you saw in the misfits box, and a very nice head it was, good all through. I had decided on a cheese sauce, long time since I made that staple. I used cheddar and feta cheeses, didn't add salt because they're salty, but did use plenty of black pepper.
I really like baking food in glass dishes, and I have several sizes, so it fits.
About six meals here, and I have soup in the freezer full of vegetables, so there's a range. I can make a helping of this cauliflower make a meal on its own. Dessert was yogurt beaten with pumpkin and sweetened.
Then off to the food pantry with sugar, flour, and malt vinegar packets, on the way to the Tuesday knitting group. Small group, no new projects, just a lot of fun with friends.
Chat ranged over forthcoming wedding with pictures of The Dress, past and present pets, with baby pictures, misfits market, that supermarket and restaurant app that gets leftover food, dreams about furnishing rooms, meditation, yoga, pilates, AARP, butterflies, groundhogs and more. It was such a relief from the news.
Here's the view down into the ground floor, from outside the room where we meet. Vertiginous, no? Scroll past quick if it's too much.
Left is where I sit when I read here, behind you see the gallery and current painting exhibit, right are the study tables where people often work, between them and the food permitted area is the new book section.
Home after that to Textiles and Tea with Joyce Robards, a beloved weaving teacher whose own students joined up to sponsor her appearance.
Her own work is pretty classical in style, and excellent in quality, scarves and yard goods. Mainly she was interested in encouraging people to abandon their fear of difficulty and just plunge in and learn. You could tell she's a great teacher.
And here's the weaving Center she founded and where she teaches, in Rochester, NY.
That laugh is typical of her happy approach to life, I think!
Happy day everyone, still waiting on the paper copy of the heat pump info, which they mailed on the 11th. Anyway, stay strong, don't cave, we got this.
And keep fit
100 pound potato bags?? Then I read the final line, good one ha ha.
ReplyDeleteI like the "I am at this level" encouragement.
DeleteLaughed at the potato bag exercise (had to read it twice though). It must have been cauliflower week on both ends of the planet. i bought 2 meaning to give one to Bro and forgot. Arrived home with 2 - one became cauliflower cheese and the other combined with chickpeas in a curry. I might give cauliflowers a miss for a while when I've eaten all that😅
ReplyDeleteI like the chickpea curry idea for next time I have a cauliflower.
DeleteThe potato joke was a creeper. Funny.
ReplyDeleteInteresting how we make the same assumption until we get to the end.
DeleteI read all your posts with great attention, including today's exercise. I was impressed by the potato bags and completely taken in. Thank you for the laugh on this dreary, drizzly morning.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great exercise. Well laughing is supposed to be good anyway, so there's that.
DeleteYou inspire me with your healthy meals, creativity, and potato bags!
ReplyDeleteAnd the greatest of these is the potato bags!
DeleteExcellent meme.
ReplyDeleteYou do have a very nice library. The epitome of civilization in my opinion.
Yes, it's come along since its beginnings in someone's living room!
DeleteCheesy seems to be the only way that I can eat cauliflower.
ReplyDeleteI've done it with spices, Yeung man style, but cheesy is comfort food.
DeleteI love cauliflower cheese - and I tell myself it's healthy!
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with supermarkets and left-over food is the logistics of collecting it and getting it to the people who need it.
That's a different idea, supermarkets donating food, and the logistics are often impossible. What I'm referring to is the app you can use to get a low-cost surprise bag of food at the end of the day. Restaurants and bakeries typically are involved because their product can't go a second day.
DeleteI didn't really like cauliflower until my daughter introduced me to roasted cauliflower with lots of spices. My daughter has her own cooking vlog and does quite well. The funny things is, there is no way my daughter would have eaten cauliflower as a child:)
ReplyDeleteI'm off to walk the dogs. Have a wonderful day.
I've had a spicy cauliflower and it's good, too. Can you give us a link for the vlog?
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DeleteFunny potato meme! Your library looks terrific. I am lucky to have a wonderful library in my city, too, and it is very popular.
ReplyDeleteA good library is a real treasure, especially when the staff are creative and interesting. I've been lucky that way.
DeleteNever a cauliflower fan... but everything roasted has been good!
ReplyDeleteThat's generally true, yes. And reheating this cauliflower cheese in the toaster oven gives it more roasting, better than the microwave.
DeleteOh how I laughed at the potato bags!
ReplyDeleteLoved hearing about the conversations with the knitting ladies.
You made my day! :)
You could definitely do the potato bag routine. I love my knitting group!
DeleteHa! Love the potato bag exercises! It's great to see the interior of your library, too. Looks like quite a spacious place. I wish I could browse the books!
ReplyDeleteThat's only part of it. The children's floor takes up the entire third level. We have several big terraces to sit out and see the view, one paved like a chessboard with giant chess men to play with. Kids love this.
DeleteI love the potato bag exercise.
ReplyDeleteTry it! You'll be amazed!
DeleteYou have a very nice library. My daily exercise routine. I'm almost to the one potato.
ReplyDeleteKeep going, you'll get there ;)
DeleteI'm with you about baking in glass. So much better. The textiles are fabulous.
ReplyDeleteFood baked in glass looks beautiful as well as tasting good.
DeleteGood morning Boud. I love cauliflower, and the cheese sauce is an awesome way to have it - unfortunately me and cheese do combat these days. I still have cauliflower, though - generally in curries, salads or steamed.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the cheese doesn't work for you. But there are plenty of options with cauliflower as you say.
DeleteThe potato bag is my kind of exercise! Your library looks amazing. Our original library (now the children's library) was built with Carnegie's help and subsequently there was a new addition added which now houses the adult and reference libraries. Right now the art gallery has space there but they are moving to their own space which will open up more space for the reference department to expand.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds as if your library keeps evolving. Good.
DeleteThat library doesn't make me dizzy but it sure makes me want to wander through it.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice space, plenty of areas for different activities, study, meetings, performance, all that.
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