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Showing posts with label kitchen cleaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchen cleaning. Show all posts
Today and tomorrow's lunch is this dish, created from precooked and frozen cabbage in cheese sauce, from the farm share and frozen in meal size containers, with a can of tomatoes, diced, poured over, the final Vienna sausage chopped in and chunks of sharp cheddar. Fresh ground black pepper over, and it will do fine in a 180F oven for about half an hour or less.
But note the wide open spaces next to the stove now. I did get the microwave moved over and here it is, looking much better, since, I finally realized, across the corner it echoes the corner cabinet shape, much better appearance. And it uses a formerly useless corner space, too deep to reach into easily.
And it's safer and more functional to have that open space by the stove. Observant blogistas will have noted that the open spaces have inspired me to pull out a cookbook from the newly installed bookcase, and since the weather is frigid, bit too cold for me to get out and breathe, baking cookies from Martha Stewart might be just the ticket.
Last week I got finally around to thinning the pachysandra on the patio, found to my amazement a couple of lovely box planters, buried, the thinning long overdue, now planted with petunia and some shrub, and sitting on the fence. A lot of tangential activity to that simple need to thin the pachy.
Then yesterday and the two days before, the big reward came -- first sightings in years of a hummingbird busily attending to the petunias. Flying backwards as they miraculously do, hovering at a terrific rate, just there for a few seconds. But I was out loafing and reading at the time and that's how I caught sight of her. Three days in a row. No pix, no time!
Then today, in the midst of turning out the kitchen, thinning out pots and pans for freecycling, washing the shelfy things that have been there years, amazing how much they needed doing, heavy labor, I found cachepots and thought I should check if they needed occupants.
Anyway, I took a break and wandered outside in case I needed to bring any houseplants to occupy them yet, fall seeming to be rushing in, and there, after three years of tlc, the dieffenbachia has thrown a flower!
I didn't even realize they could. Noticed yesterday what I thought was a new leaf, but here it is opened up, and it's a lovely surprise of a flower.
