So today I'm supposedly working on serious homebody stuff.
We're having guests this weekend, so I'm practicing dinner dishes. Today's effort: green curry vegetables. It's a thai/burmese style dish, with green curry paste spicing up a cococut lime sauce with eggplant, onions, and sweet potatoes. Fairly simple, actually, except the method for cooking it was a bit bassackward. I wish I'd figured that out earlier.
Anyway, it's one of those long-prep style items. And, as it's cooking, I'm picking up the living room, rolling away the rugs, etc. And every time I need to come back to stir the pot, every couple minutes, I wash my hands and dry them. And every time I find something which really doesn't belong in the living room or kitchen, I'm jogging up the stairs to the bedrooms. Which is rather great, because I've been noticing I need more exercise.
Which reminds me that this morning I was baking cookies. Good old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies from the Betty Crocker cookbook. Except without the nuts and using special dark 'chipits', as the chocolate chips seem to be called here in Canada. The plan was to also bake a batch of peanut butter cookies, but I ran behind schedule so now we'll see if I can do that after this dinner dish practice is done.
Not that I need to have any more sweets around the house, as I said before. Still, with the laundry room upstairs, the cleaning/cleaning going on downstairs, today at least I'm burning cals. Now I just need to do figure out how to get optimal heart rate running up and down at least every other day...
And now it's done. Tasty, but could have had a bit more curry. Over-cooked, again because the order of some steps were a bit off. I'll be able to fix that when I make it next time, I hope. I think this one passes muster, and will be on the table this weekend.
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