The day comes, the day goes. In the kitchen I cut carrots, potatoes and parsnips, slice leeks and spring greens and consider if I can force more vegetables into my diet. I have already had blueberries and raspberries in my porridge and had beans on toast for lunch. That comes to eight, against a target of five a day, so I decide I have done enough.
It is a confusing time of year. My head tells me it is five pm, but the clocks, having gone forward last week, tell me it is six pm. Sometimes, despite all the clocks, instinct still governs my thinking. We still haven’t worked out why the clock on the Tv is still an hour behind as all other devices have set themselves to the new time. Perhaps the TV, like me, prefers the old ways. Viewing was, as I recall, much simpler when we had two black and white channels. Then there were three, and then we had colour.
After that, the floodgates opened. Four channels, five channels, daytime TV . . .
I could, I suppose, put sweet potatoes in with the roast vegetables, but if I do that it will have almost exactly the same ingredients as last night’s vegetable stew. This isn’t a problem for two meals in a row but as tomorrow’s evening meal is going to be vegetable soup it could be. The soup, you see, will be the blended leftovers from the stew. There are many complexities in life, and menu planning on a budget is one that gets little notice. If TV journalists and politicians were forced to work for minimum wage I’m sure we would see many more stories about this sort of thing.
Anyway, I’m off to finish cooking tea. I will probably come back for a second post later as i have something to moan about, and Julia has had to listen to me moaning all day.
Oddly shaped, but grown with love
Soup is a regular item on the menu here. A lot of vegetables go into it.
Sounds like your clocks changed over to DST much later than ours did here.
It really is a good thing to eat, and you mainly know what goes into it. 🙂
You are so right that menu planning on a budget gets little notice. But many of us must do so. Your soups sound really good.
I added curry powder, a little chilli, lemon juice and the roasted veg left over from tea last night. It was quite good and we have enough for another meal. A few veg always seem to multiply when you make them into soup.
Cheap, healthy and virtuous – and just took a few minutes with a hand blender. If only every week was this easy.
A winning combination.
To be fair, it was rather brown instead of the orange I aim for, so it wasn’t 100% successful. I think this is something to do with using ready chopped onions that were past their best before date. 🙂
Your moan was well justified – I am pleased you separated it from this positive post
🙂
I find it hard to believe that you are going to moan about something. It must be serious.
🙂 It is.
That was me being anonymous by accident. I apologise.
I guessed it was you. I always blame WP, I didn’t realise it could be a matter of choice.