It has been Ten days since I last threw out food.
Today I am thrown off kilter by a change in schedule. But I made some vegetable broth that is attributed to Gloria Swanson for this month's dinner and a movie event - I'm supposed to be watching Sunset Blvd. this weekend, except that I can't find a free copy - instead I'll just have to do my best to remember it, I have seen it already a few times.
Anyway, the Gloria Swanson "Potassium Broth" is quite easy and nice and no doubt helps you not gain any weight while you are a movie star- it's basically just some vegetables boiled up in a 2 cup water to 1 cup diced vegetable ratio - the recipe I got called for swiss chard but I substituted kale, there is also celery, zucchini and green beans. The recipe is unclear on if you're meant to drink the broth without the veggies in it or if you're meant to eat it as a very light soup with the veggies still in - I have elected to strain the veggies out and set them aside to add to rice for tonight's supper, and I'm sipping the broth throughout the rest of the day. (I've no idea if it's actually high in potassium or not. Mostly it tastes like celery.)
Included in the recipe-possibilities for this weekend's event are several recipes attributed to Cecil B. DeMille, and I'm pondering if I can fit one of them in later on - it is a long weekend, after all. (The deMille recipes are considerably heftier than the broth.)
The tofu stirfry last week was quite nice, I really enjoyed it! Predictably, the housemate was slightly perturbed by both the tofu and the plethora of vegetables, but I was maintaining a cheerful "I don't care, I made it, I like it, you can have peanut butter on toast later if you want to make that" attitude.
I went with my housemate to the city yesterday for shopping, which means my monthly grocery budget has been buried under a deluge of "fancy" cheeses, pastries, and ingredients for bread machine bread. Plus I bought organic apple sauce and cottage cheese which I hope will allow me to snack on something more nutritious than mass-produced pastries. Apples and applesauce continue to be weirdly expensive, for a place where there are literal apple orchards a five minute walk away. I used to get free apples from acquaintances, but now they seem to be hoarding their gold.
I did get fresh asparagus from one neighbour this week!
Too bad I don't really like asparagus.
If I have time, I'd like to visit the community garden-surplus exchange booth on Monday evening. I can take them a bunch of rhubarb. I still have frozen rhubarb from last year, while my rhubarb plant grows and grows this spring/summer.
They probably have a lot of rhubarb coming in right now. I could take them some sorrel as well.
I've just noticed how dusty my keyboard is - I think it might be actually tiny bits of ash - we've started getting wildfire smoke this week.
I'm up to 13 and a half hours of "fasting" in my new time-restricted eating regimen - it's starting to get a bit tough so I'm going to stay at this length for this coming week before adding more minutes to eat. My goal is 14 hours fasting and a 10 hour eating window, sort of the minimal schedule that seems to have some scientific backing.
I wish the temperatures would cool down a bit as I still have numerous oven-related foods to eat - I don't want them hanging out in my freezers until October, sheesh.
Re my writer's block: I have decided that for the rest of the month, I'll just do what I want to do, as long as I'm working on something. If this means that I'm horribly behind on my big writing project by mid-June, well, that's what it'll mean. I don't want to turn it into something that stresses me out unnecessarily. It's not anything that's likely to make me the big bucks, it's not anything that's likely to find millions of readers, it's something that should be enjoyable - and while I want to do it, if it's not going in a way that's entertaining me, it's not like the dentist's, I don't have to do it.