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What will I do with my life when I don’t have to blog every single meal I make?

Incidentally, I’ll be doing the proper wrap-up for this challenge on Saturday, as I’m going to be out late tomorrow and early on Saturday morning, so I think tomorrow’s blog post will need to be minimalist for the sake of my (tenuous) sanity.

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Only two more days left in the pantry challenge, and I haven’t even tried making Poor Man’s Bread, northern Italian style, with chestnut flour.  And in fact, I doubt I’m going to have the opportunity now, since tomorrow is choir night, and I’m eating out on Friday.  Maybe I’ll make it once the challenge is over…

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Well, you already know about the caramel tarts, don’t you?  But for the record, they contained wholemeal flour, the last of my brown sugar (which is, in fact, the last of my sugar entire), golden syrup (last of that, too), and of course the Cajeta caramel.

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It was that sort of day, really.

I woke up, rolled over, and did something diabolical to my shoulder.  This should have been an omen.

Breakfast was plum crumble, and definitely a high point, and the morning (which involved several rounds of going up and down stairs, hooray, GCC steps!) wasn’t too bad.  But yoga was cancelled, which was a real pity, because I’d been looking forward to trying to fix my shoulder with some good stretching…

By lunch, I was really hungry and absolutely ready for my cheesy pasta bake with greens.  It smelled amazing coming out of the microwave.  It smelled amazing when I dropped it upside-down on the floor, too, but by that point I wasn’t so inclined to eat it.

So I went across the road to the university (more steps, at least), and bought lunch at the café there.  It was lovely, but it wasn’t cheesy pasta bake…

The afternoon was one of those days where it’s almost impossible to stay awake.  By the time I got home, the idea of figuring out dinner was too painful to contemplate.  Which means we get to revert to my almost-takeaway dinner special: chicken duets with broccoli and cheese, pasta, and tomato sauce, this time with baby squash and onions and zucchini flowers, because we have some and vegetables are good for humans.

And maybe, if we are very good, we will have ice-cream and strawberry sauce for dessert.  But if so, you will simply have to imagine it, because I’m closing off this post now and going to do my singing practice.

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Today was the Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser at work, which means that last night I spent a lot of time attempting to turn what was left on the sweet side of my pantry into appealing morning tea treats of the vegan and gluten-free variety.  I was moderately successful – it turns out I had all the ingredients required to make Amber Shea Crawley‘s raw Devil’s Food Cakes – almond meal, coconut flour, apple sauce, maple syrup, cocoa and raw cacao powder, among other things.  That was the end of most of those ingredients.  Continue reading →

Today was not a great day in the annals of culinary activity.  It started fairly well, with more rye bread for breakfast, this time with jam…

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