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kaberettsome things!
Sep. 5th, 2026 10:42 pmkaberettToday I have not made sage cobnut salted caramel (recipe courtesy of the National Trust but not alas online anywhere that I can tell), nor gone on to use it in a medlar sticky toffee pudding, but I have got a puck of medlar pulp out of the freezer and I have got a carrier bag containing 2.2kg of cobnuts husk and all down to a much smaller bowl containing approximately 640g of cobnuts in the shell. I theoretically require 300g of shelled cobnuts. I am at this stage in proceedings plagued by the nagging feeling that last time I bothered doing anything with cobnuts, Several Years Ago, I declared it fun as a one-off but far too much like work.
I have managed to run a full dehydrator of apple slices, though, and we have more negatively priced electrons tomorrow, so sticky toffee pudding is now a Tomorrow Job.
... as is another load of apples for dehydrating, and hopefully the second batch of fig jam, and ideally also a bunch of stewed apples.
Meanwhile this evening has included introducing A to The Man In Seat 61, or rather thinking "I should tell A to look at..." and then looking over to see A had already got there. Excellent! I thought, and commented more or less the foregoing.
... A had not previously been aware of this site -- it had merely come up high in the search results for a journey they're thinking of making. There now exist A Number of Open Tabs...
today's achievements have almost all involved food
Sep. 3rd, 2026 11:19 pmkaberettI have Gathered, inter alia:
- a 2kg bag of cobnuts (still VERY MUCH in their husks so usable weight is going to be... less), destined for some combination of sage & cobnut salted caramel (to go with medlar sticky toffee pudding)/blackberry and cobnut jam/an Ottolenghi courgette and cobnut salad (made with allotment squash but not alas my own basil)
- cream, to make said caramel
- not quite as much flour as I wanted (1.5kg each of wholemeal and white bread flour; 1kg spelt) because the shop was inexplicably out of 1.5kg bags of flour
- some ... fascinating ... discounted-because-no-one-had-bought-them Quorn Protein Snacks, which we turn out to not actually hate
I have also: strained the yoghurt (slightly more than I intended but nobody is exactly going to object); converted the resultant whey into two proto-loaves of bread (one wholemeal fig & pumpkin seed & spelt, one mostly-white poppy & caraway) to be baked tomorrow morning while our energy supplier will pay us to wiggle electrons; Had Therapy; spent time with The Child. Sleep now? Sleep now.
kaberettAssociative, not causative, but I am abruptly feeling rather more hopeful about the way I think the migraine's been Worse over the past few months; I'd been quietly concerned that maybe it was just... continuing... to escalate... but maybe there is an addressable Issue after all!
(I've not been managing to keep a headache diary, or indeed keeping up with much in my notebook. I have today successfully taking steps towards unfucking said situation and am feeling much better. Fingers crossed it sticks.)