Misfits, clean rug, and Suits

Yesterday's box arrived short of a couple of items. They'd notified me as usual, but they don't know for sure till the packing starts, if they'll come up short, so no time to change my order. 

It's one of the features of opportunistic marketing, the advantage being great prices and good quality in what you do get. I've seen people complaining that they can't set up a regular unchanging order with misfits. The whooshing sound is the point flying over their heads.

Missing are the apples and Swiss chard. I'll live.

I've ordered  bread, very unusual for me, because I've been unable to get whole wheat flour for weeks, and wonder if it's a distant result of Ukrainian supplies being throttled by Russia, affecting worldwide distribution. We have plenty of US grain production but I  wonder about the mechanism of supply.  

I'll resume home baked bread when I get whole wheat flour again, but meanwhile there's whole wheat pita and these multigrain loaves. They're a bit sweet for my taste, but, again, I'll live.

And yesterday I wondered what on earth there was to eat in the house, like not a thing to wear, and cooked this cod, tomatoes, with yellow potatoes, heavily seasoned with salt, black pepper and berbere. Cod can take it.

Note the plates in the background. This is three meals.

I expect this has some fancy recipe name, and would like to know if you know of it. It was fast food, and very good, too. 

Pro tip: I often add a sprig of herb, here Italian basil, or curry leaves, Thai basil, thyme, when you see pictures. It's not just for a photo shoot. It makes a delicate flavor as you eat the food, you can smell it, and it gets into the taste without actually eating the herb.  Same with floating a sprig in hot soup. This is handy when you're catering for people who don't like that flavor, just leave it off their  helping.

Speaking of herbs, friend Michael the Artist Handyman, across the street, is also a great cook, lucky wife comes home to marvellous dinners, anyway he's coming over today to get supplies of herbs from the patio, between rain showers. 

I'm going to confer with him about the idea of sage and celery soup. Chances are he's made it. I know he's fried sage leaves crisp then added them like croutons to soup. I haven't tried this yet.

Yesterday I washed and rinsed and blocked the little rug and it's drying on a towel up in the loft.

Then I'll stitch on the backing and veeolia! ready for cold weather.

Suits has been my evening viewing, just a couple of episodes at a time. I think what appeals to me, aside from the amazing clothes and shoes (Jessica in court with those  iconic red soles), is the intelligence. 

They reframe circumstances brilliantly, when all is lost, it isn't.  As in: this isn't a personal betrayal, it's a contract issue. I love that and could have used it effectively in a number of past situations.  It might be just as well I didn't know it at the time, come to think of it.

We haven't had a puzzle in a while, largely because Haggard Hawks has gone over to Word of the Day, interesting, but maybe not wanting to compete with his puzzle book. But here's a recent one, which I  don't think I've posted. 

Funny clues only, please, no answers. Blogistas have the best funny clues.

Happy day, everyone

Let's hope justice finally gets rolling down, thanks to Fani Willis, civic hero, and, of course, a black woman. It's always a brilliant black woman who saves the day.