Today started well, good creating after an early breakfast for both of us followed by some seed planting of spinach & pansies as Trystan is in love with eating them I'm still inclined to grow some lavender to bake with &I'm thinking of buying some whole seed spice or seed for cumin & coriander as well as some other spices.
I'm surprised what a good source of plants ebay is, saffron crocuses at very reasonable prices as well as black sapote & turmeric roots & lots of other goodies all found while I was looking for spices.
I would love to try making my own vanilla & beans are reasonably priced for that as well, I'm just trying to keep my un-nessesary spending to a minimum for a while.
This may or may not be due to my reading "your money or your life" lent to me by jane pickard (growns) which may be helpfull but really seems to be geared more towards people who waste on a lot of trinkets & crap eat a lot of take away & coffee & dress to impress others essentially I think a better understanding of my money may help me but I don't need to worry about how much I spend on bussiness lunches as even if I had them I think I'd be trying to run them in a more sustainable economical & fun way I think potluck business lunches could be fun.
After doing a shop for a surprising amount of food for $80 I felt my potatoes & onions & such were messy & unappealing at best &I keep loosing potatoes to mould or rot so I decided to store the potatoes in a sack in a basket, lacking sacks laying around I quickly knocked together one out of calico which is fine as I got it at $2.50 a metre, while I was at it I made one out of the offcut for the onions to stop them rolling all over the place & loosing skin in my cupboard I think the end result is rather stylish too.
Vlad arrived home mid-day in tears to tell me a friend of his had died in a horrific car accident, It really is beyond a pity, having met the man he seemed like a genuinely decent & kind hearted person I only hope his mother & daughter will be alright in time.
With the thought in my mind that soup is comfort food & the fact that I had intended to make it this week I pulled the recipe from nigella lawsons most recent book & pooled it with one from the veganomicon to make yellow capsicum golden squash & corn soup with coconut cream & maple syrup.
For this I used golden squash from my garden & green chilli found growing wild as well as the awesome coconut cream I bought in bulk from santos health foods which is truly the nicest I have ever had.
The soup ended up very tasty although I have always had trouble with the texture of corn that has been blended in any way I think this is well worth another attempt though I don' know what I'll add next time, I think a chick pea cutlet might be a nice addition of protein as well as something to dunk or puddle around in it.
Anyway I really don't know how to finish such a disjointed post, I had a good day on my account productive & satisfying, I don't feel that all is right with the world due to this bad news & I don't really know what to do with myself.
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