Ramblings.

[curiouswombat]

Rambling post this one! The year so far - Daughter-dear, the cat and I saw in the New Year quietly. S2C saw the New Year in at work, and was asleep beside me when I woke on the morning of Jan 1st.

I went to Church as I was to look after any little ones - of which there was one - we had fun, the two of us making crown shaped cookies to celebrate Epiphany! D-d stayed at home, and oversaw dinner. After Church I went up to Bride to collect my mother, and when we were about 100-200metres/yards from home we got a puncture in a rear tyre. How much worse it would have been up on the mountain road miles from home - if a tyre is going to go, then along the road from home is the best possible place!

When Mum and I arrived at our house the dinner was all cooking to perfection - our traditional New Year feast of roast goose, roast root veg., and more seasonal red cabbage, and S2C managed to get up to enjoy it with us - an excellent meal!

Poor old husband changed the wheel for me - then my sister rang, and said that she'd take mum home, as she needed to go up there anyway - so hurrah! and pour out the Asti!

Yesterday I didn't do anything very memorable - but did buy lots of healthy veg - we had stir fried goose in hoisin sauce for tea last night, but there is no point in getting all uptight about food until we have finished the festive foods off. They should be all gone by twelvth night - which is just as it should be, really. Then there will be no more cake, biscuits etc. for a good while.

Today I took lots and lots of packing cases that have built up over Christmas to the Waste Management Site - so trying to keep one of my very few resolutions, namely to keep the spare bedroom as a bedroom, not let it fill up with 'stuff' again. So so far, so good. Now to make Bubble & Squeak out of left over potatoes, parsnips and red cabbage!

Back to work tomorrow - I'm not taking bets on how many messages will be on the messaging service for me - but last Christmas it was 27 I think!

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

*drools* I should NOT read your posts when I'm hungry!! Stir fried goose in hoisin sauce.... *slurps drool again*. Sorry *wipes mouth*.

Sounds like you have had a relaxing time.

Oh my - red cabbage.... *drools all over again!!*

[maddeinin.livejournal.com]

Oooh, goose!

We're all done with the Christmas grub, except for some savoury potato casserole I put in the freezer for the next time I need comfort food. Of course, the cats helped with the turkey, and it didn't hurt that I pretty much lived on cookies last weekend :P

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Stir fried goose left-overs work well - it is so like duck. And I can report that red cabbage makes very good Bubble and Squeak, especially as we have goose fat to fry it in. My daughter regards Bubble and Squeak as a Festive treat food!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The village my mother lives in has a farm that provides probably about half the geese eaten on the Island over Christmas and New Year. They are free-range until a couple of weeks before they are killed - they spend their last weeks being cossetted with extra grain in barns. So we almost feel as if we know them - but it doesn't stop us eating one with great enthusiasm at New Year! The best bit is the skin of course - like eating crisps (potato chips)!!

We had a roast meal, then sandwiches, then a left-overs meal, and the cat had a decent share - so it was a very good goose.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Glad I have only ten minutes til tea :)

there will be no more cake, biscuits etc. for a good while.
This sounds like a very solemn edict. I am sad to hear it.

I'm not taking bets on how many messages will be on the messaging service for me
I had to go to the GP this morning and their computer system had gone down on the first day of re-opening after New Year - they were trying to organise everything on big pieces of construction paper!

[dodyskin.livejournal.com]

Bubble and Squeak is a most excellent food. Ys.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Well there will still be a supply of kit-kats in the goodies cupboard for S2C - and some Geobars for D-d - but I am not making any more cakes, biscuits or muffins until sometime just before Lent - when we can have a pre-lenten blow out!

The best thing about the messaging system I am linked to is that it only hold messages for about a week - so if I am off for longer it just deletes the earlier ones! I think this is wonderful - but my clients aren't so sure. I do warn them - the message clearly says 'If you are ringing before December 28th do not leave a message, as I will not get it,' but there will still be the 'trails' - it goes 'message 1, December 22nd...DELETED' and so on, and I grin from ear to ear! Isn't that mean of me!!!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

And so totally comfort food for cold, cold days!

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Heh! I kind of see where your clients are coming from :)

I like Geobars. The chocolate ones taste like chocolate rice krispie cakes.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You are absolutely right to have sympathy for them - but it is not unknown for me to come back from a fortnight break to find 40+ messages - takes hours to listen to them before starting to ring them all back, and then within ten minutes of starting to listen to them the very same people are ringing again to find out why I haven't rung them back as I'm now back at work!

Anything that allows me to honestly tell them that I haven't got their message makes me happy!

Sometimes something that would act as a deterent by sending ear-shattering screams down the line at them would make me happy! Especially the old lady who rang 11 or 12 times over one evening, when I only work 9 - 5, constantly complaining that I hadn't yet rung her back! I am developing a messaging service phobia!! ::Runs and hides under a cushion on the sofa, hoping tomorrow and its millions of messages will just go away!::

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Stir-fried goose! Chinese is a great way to go when you're getting tired of leftover meat. I used to make a mean turkey enchilada.

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Eek! I hit "post" too soon. I wanted to give you my condolences on the flat tire and my best wishes for a happy new year!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am treating the car to new tyres all around for New Year!

Turkey enchiladas sound very good. Oddly enough(!) I have some frozen cooked turkey at the moment...

And Happy New Year to you and yours also!