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Dec. 4th, 2018 12:15 pmI may have overdone it last night.
The way it went was, I'd cleaned up the office over the weekend while half-watching half-listening to Queer Eye, new edition. Monday I went grocery shopping as I usually do, and the first thing I saw on their entrance display was a three bottle set of single source olive oil from Greece, Italy, and Spain. Great, says I! I was meaning to do a stir fry and some rice for lunches. About halfway through grocery shopping it occurs to me, wait, I don't use olive oil for the teriyaki stir fry, I use sesame oil! Crap, now I need something to do with this olive oil! What do I do? Well, there was that roasted cauliflower and green goddess dressing thing on Queer Eye, I could do that. Okay, what else do I need?
Which is how I went home with olive oil, sesame oil, cauliflower, an avocado, greek yogurt, balsamic vinegar, and my usual assortment of snacks. Note: At no point did it occur to me that putting back the damn olive oil was an option.
Anyway, I do cook with olive oil a fair bit when I think about it. I just hadn't thought about it at the time. Oops.
But then I went home and batch cooked a bunch of not as good as I've ever done teriyaki (corn starch self, you need the thickening agent) and two cups of rice, AND finally made the spinach and cheese stuffed shells under tomato sauce that I'd been meaning to make. There were ultimately 18 shells that I stuffed out of a little less than half a batch of cheese and spinach for the lasagna, that's a lot of shell. I might should get some tupperware and do that kind of thing for batch cooking for Nanowrimo or similar events and just stuff them all in the freezer. It was simple to make! Just, SO MANY SHELLS.
I also got about three? Two and a half? I think I stopped in the middle of the third. Three or two and a half synopses done that are very, very rough, will needed padded out, will need a lot of research, but work for a start. Pulling threads of a novel or novella out of ideas, and I'm definitely happy with the Robin Hood Blade Vikings one. So pleased that I might do that for a future Nano, I'm not sure. I definitely need a couple bios and a history of the time. I've got some titles for the bios? The history may be a problem for the library.
First, though, I finish all the synopses of all the works in progress and maybe get a couple histories specifically on early medieval england rather than on the Vikings themselves, for extra context. And then at some point, you know. I need bookshelves to keep all of these books. Oops.
The way it went was, I'd cleaned up the office over the weekend while half-watching half-listening to Queer Eye, new edition. Monday I went grocery shopping as I usually do, and the first thing I saw on their entrance display was a three bottle set of single source olive oil from Greece, Italy, and Spain. Great, says I! I was meaning to do a stir fry and some rice for lunches. About halfway through grocery shopping it occurs to me, wait, I don't use olive oil for the teriyaki stir fry, I use sesame oil! Crap, now I need something to do with this olive oil! What do I do? Well, there was that roasted cauliflower and green goddess dressing thing on Queer Eye, I could do that. Okay, what else do I need?
Which is how I went home with olive oil, sesame oil, cauliflower, an avocado, greek yogurt, balsamic vinegar, and my usual assortment of snacks. Note: At no point did it occur to me that putting back the damn olive oil was an option.
Anyway, I do cook with olive oil a fair bit when I think about it. I just hadn't thought about it at the time. Oops.
But then I went home and batch cooked a bunch of not as good as I've ever done teriyaki (corn starch self, you need the thickening agent) and two cups of rice, AND finally made the spinach and cheese stuffed shells under tomato sauce that I'd been meaning to make. There were ultimately 18 shells that I stuffed out of a little less than half a batch of cheese and spinach for the lasagna, that's a lot of shell. I might should get some tupperware and do that kind of thing for batch cooking for Nanowrimo or similar events and just stuff them all in the freezer. It was simple to make! Just, SO MANY SHELLS.
I also got about three? Two and a half? I think I stopped in the middle of the third. Three or two and a half synopses done that are very, very rough, will needed padded out, will need a lot of research, but work for a start. Pulling threads of a novel or novella out of ideas, and I'm definitely happy with the Robin Hood Blade Vikings one. So pleased that I might do that for a future Nano, I'm not sure. I definitely need a couple bios and a history of the time. I've got some titles for the bios? The history may be a problem for the library.
First, though, I finish all the synopses of all the works in progress and maybe get a couple histories specifically on early medieval england rather than on the Vikings themselves, for extra context. And then at some point, you know. I need bookshelves to keep all of these books. Oops.