You just reminded me I was going to sprinkle some fresh corriander on my fish curry last night. I guess it is a bit late now.

I chop and freeze a lot of herbs, including corriander. I mix them with oil and freeze them in ice cube trays. You can also add water if that suits your recipes better, but I am usually adding oil anyway and because the oil is a bit soft you can chop a cube in half if you need to.

I had some of my frozen fish curry for dinner tonight and it was pretty darn good. The two pack approach of freeIng the raw marinaded fish seperately from the curry sauce so that I could cook it rather than freezing it cooked and reheating worked really well. It’s definitely on my list to repeat.

We finally got some rain! Hopefully there was enough at home to get a decent amount into the water tank.

I think Ballarat’s being missed. 😭

I really hope so too. I have lots of new plants that I’ve needed to keep watering and my water tank ran dry weeks ago.

A common pattern. I have wondered whether a service that had someone visit on a regular basis to do a house inspection would be feasible, it’s the motivational trigger for most people to clean. It’s either people visiting or a deadline approaching on another task you want to avoid.

Well done. It has taken me many years (ok, decades) to fully appreciate the benefits of doing chores first thing instead of putting them off to the last possible minute.

Enjoy your music.

I’ve always put it down to the same thing, but I now think an autistic tendency to avoid abbreviations and idioms could also be a part of it.

I’m glad I didn’t trust them and gave the garden a good water yesterday.

That’s good, because I like talking about them!

Tonight’s hamburger was pretty good. I’ve never actually made proper hamburger buns before, I’m glad I worked out I can use my small loaf pan on top as a weight. It didn’t just make it flat, the weight made it a bit denser so it didn’t fall apart as I ate.

In my previous place I had jasmine growing on a trellis that was far too small for it, on the side of the carport. I decided to replace it with something a little less exuberant, but it tooks years of cutting and poisoning before I could get rid of it.

Meal prep is well underway. Dough for rolls is rising, yoghurt is draining and filling for cottage pie is simmering. Now I just need to form & bake the rolls, do the potato topping for the pie and chop up five meals worth of salads in various forms.

and he can get any web-spinning spiders that might try to take up residence in the little hole at the end of the fabric rolls. I think he’s a perfect sewing room pet.

I found where my huntsman is hiding out, he’s in the cupboard protecting my fabric rolls.

It’s my last day off before the nose is back to the grindstone, including a day working down in Melbourne. Today will therefore feature meal prep, washing and gerneral last day sadness. Just a couple more weeks to get through and I have 12 days off to do as I please. Very much looking forward to that.

Yes, homemade tortillas. And home grown corriander too.

That’s only half right. Green are unripe fruit of any variety, but the yellow, orange and red are different varieties.