evaelisabeth: (Frigg)
I tend to procrastinate, I put off things I don't want to deal with till Kingdom come. One of these things is the tax return which Brian has done in the past. Since he's moved out right now I ended up just putting my medical costs together and finding out that the Irish tax return is now super simple and online. I put everything in and the next day I got a notification how much money I was getting back. It wasn't a huge amount but every little bit helps.

The tasty salad was something I've been wanting to try for a while, I'm not usually fond of water melon but I'd seen several sweet savoury salad combinations with it so I made a version of Nigel Slater's.

Equal parts of bite sized tomatoes and water melon, a few finely chopped green onions (these should be refrigerated for a bit to make sure they are nice and cool)
Just before serving add:
A good glug of extra virgin olive oil
a drizzle of good balsamic vinegar (Slater doesn't have this in his recipe and he added chilli which I omitted, he has a habit of throwing chilli on everything that I find unnecessary.)
Salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste.
Grill about half a packed of halumi per person.
Toast some ciabatta, rub with a clove of garlic

To serve toss all the veggies and dressing, pile on a couple of pieces of the grilled ciabatta and place the grilled halumi on top.

So damn tasty. The only problem is that a full melon makes a ton of salad so this would be great for a garden party.

Nesting

Jul. 27th, 2020 02:47 pm
evaelisabeth: (Default)
I'm officially in a nesting phase, the library has been sorted by topic when it comes to non-fiction and alphabetically by author for fiction. We ended up moving furniture in the living room as well which all of a sudden made those bookshelves more accessible so I moved all the fiction from out there back into the library and our gardening/building/history/livestock books went out where people can more easily get at them. I now have an office space that's away from the main flow of people in our open plan living/dining room/kitchen which is nice. No more fuzzy early morning teenagers shuffling into the kitchen to make tea while I'm on a zoom meeting.

Our living room curtains didn't survive the spring cleaning my Mother is doing right now, shrinking by about five inches. So off we went and purchased fabric, that according to my Mother is very feminine, I wonder why :-). She's currently sewing like a demon because she really really wants them up by tomorrow at the latest. We went to the fabric outlet in Newbridge and got the curtain fabric for €5 with the white cotton lining being a tiny bit more expensive at €5.50 per meter. Buying fabric is sooooo much cheaper than buying curtains even cheap unlined polyester ones from B&Q and you get exactly what you want.

We're also currently working on the teenager's bedroom which needs to be in shape before her kitten can come home. I don't understand how one person can make such a mess in so little time. Anyone with advice on how to housetrain a foundling kitten please chime in.

Profile

evaelisabeth: (Default)
evaelisabeth

January 2022

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9 101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 6th, 2025 03:41 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios