...Gratefully accepting a free fully-lined curtain, thrifted by my BIL. My BIL often does work renovating office buildings in Sydney city, and the volume of perfectly good fittings that frequently get thrown in the skip bin is disgusting - although I'm sure most of you wouldn't be surprised by that :-( Anyway, this time he grabbed a whole heap of enormous, fully-lined, pleated curtains (including the hooks) in excellent condition. Since one of my sets of curtains is located next to the dining table, it is definitely showing the wear and tear of three kids (food stains and texta marks), so it will be lovely to replace them for free. Makes me really sad to contemplate how items like this end up in landfill every year, it's a pretty obscene display of affluenza isn't it?
...Finding that pantry moths have infested three kilos of organic brown rice I bought recently :-( After the last weevil and moth infestation everything has been immediately decanted into sealed containers once it gets home, and all the flours have been frozen first to kill any eggs they might have contained. Well, I didn't freeze the rice, did I? Which means I have lost $13 worth of rice, and that I've confirmed the source of the moth invasion as the organic fruit and vegetable supplier I've been using for the last year :-( Not. Happy. Jan. It's the only local place I can get anything like flour, pulses and rice in bulk. I've emailed them, but I will have to keep looking for an alternative that will accept my own containers - the problem being I will have to drive significantly out of my way if I do find one. D'oh!
...Trying out my first home grown garlic bulb. I finally used up the last of the garlic plait I bought a couple of months ago, so tonight was our first taste of the garlic I harvested last year! Despite being hung up to dry for some time now, it was still quite damp inside the first few layers of papery skin, perhaps because it has been so humid here. No sign of rotting in any of the bulbs though, which is good; they've been hanging in a pretty airy spot so that seems to be working. Anyway, I tried the Australian White variety which is supposed to be quite strong - and it was! Yum :-D
Making: Yoghurt x 2.
Picking: Cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant.
Dinner: Zucchini, tomato and garlic sauce over wholemeal penne pasta.
Reading: Your Money or Your Life, Dominguez and Robin. Again, I bought this book months ago on eBay and just haven't gotten around to reading it properly yet, despite starting it three times now!
Contemplating: Eggplant relish recipes.
4 comments:
You would think that a sealed container would keep the critters out. Freezing the rice may not do any good against the eggs, and if there are any bugs around later, the grain could pick it up. We keep our flour and such in the fridge, though storing them in the freezer would work too.
I read Your Money or Your Life many years ago as a young wife. It really changed the way I think about money. Keep reading, it's worth it.
What a shame about your rice.
That garlic looks great, and sounds delicious served over penne. Yum.
When can I come to your place for tea? ;-)
Hi Brad,
The sealed containers do keep the critters out - the moth eggs arrived already in the rice and flour! If I had room I would store my flour in the fridge too I think, especially when it is so humid here at the moment. I am thinking of getting a larger freezer, in which case I would store the flour etc in there I think.
Hi Debby, I've heard so many good things about the book, but I never seem to get any uninterrupted time to read it and properly absorb it. Hopefully that will change this time around :-)
Hi Kate, You are more than welcome at my place any time LOL (excuse the mess though ;-). Pity you live so far away!
Cheers, Julie
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