Stir Fry Vegetables

More cauliflower cheese tonight because I roasted an entire cauliflower last night and we couldn’t face the whole thing, despite only having potatoes and sweetcorn with it. We had steak pies, potatoes and mangetout peas tonight. Julia bought a packet of cheese sauce as we had run out fo cheese until more was delivered tonight.

We had a lot of rain tonight, accompanied by over an hour of thunder and lightening, ending up with standing water in the street gutters and, in a street at the bottom of the hill, there was a flood according to the TESCO delivery driver.  They did a lot of work there a few years ago and that was supposed to have cured the localised flooding problem. It clearly hasn’t worked.

There are several car dealerships along that road and it once flooded so fast that several brand new cars floated away from a forecourt.  If I had kept a proper diary for the 35 years I have lived here it would be a bulky document full of historical trivia which would be of no interest to anyone but another collector of historical trivia. The fact that cars floated away, or a cannabis farm was once discovered half a mile away, or that Lawrence of Arabia once passed by the end of the road on his way to see George Brough and take delivery of a new motorcycle.

Haggis and root vegetables

Meanwhile, my former employer did a talk for a Derbyshire based metal detecting club. He had an audience of over 30, many of them being women. When you are used to 20 being a good number at the Numismatic Society, and just one woman, it is a good crowd. many women are active detectorists in that club, and many of the men actually take their wives. I suggested, not for the first time, that Julia might like to accompany me to meetings of the Numismatic Society. It appears, from her terse answer, that she wouldn’t like that at all.

He also went to a local open day at Meditation Centre that was originally built in 1790 by a member of the Smith banking family. He was keen on this as the Smiths are an interest of his, though it can be tricky telling which one is which. He is now, as a result of a chat with the historian giving the talk on the day, much better informed.

The header picture is home made veggie burgers with cauliflower steak from lockdown. Other pictures are also food from lockdown, when it seemed more central to my life.

Stir Fry Vegetables