Friday 11th September
I'm now on to week two of my attempt to get more variety into my diet; aside from spending vast amounts of cash on equipment things are going well (so far) with most of my dinners providing me with leftovers for the next day or for lunch to take to work. Last week I had lamb, mint and feta meatballs with spaghetti, lamb bolognaise, chicken Milanese salad and pea and chicken pasta with red pepper vinaigrette.
The meatballs were *all* kinds of *awesome* but the pea pasta was a bit of a let down with the dressing turning out to be far too tart so in order to rescue it I had to stick a load of tomato in it and make it into a sauce; it was still good but not what I was hoping. The chicken Milanese salad was bad due to the ridiculous amounts of smoke produced, which when you live in one room is not really so good.
This evening I made enough chilli to last me two days of lunch and dinners; it would be nice to freeze some of my leftovers but i've noticed that my food in the communal freezer gets pretty fucked up what with the amount of other tenants food stuffed in there and the delightfully unsanitary loose food that escapes from peoples' freezer bags. Niiice. I hope to bake myself something resembling a cake at some point over the weekend (woo!) but otherwise I shall be doing my best to take it easy, meeting up with my Mum for our usual four hour lunch in Lahndahn tahn before having dinner and drinks with a very long time no see friend, both of which I am looking forward to immensely.
Today at work I hope to experiment a bit more with something I am inexplicably proud of: My marvellously shoddy pinhole camera made from an ice cream tub. I've done none of the mathematics nor taken the measurements you're suppose to take, I just covered the inside of the tub with black sugar paper and poked a hole in one end with a drawing pin; the images i've produced so far on the paper could not really be classed as "good" but I still can't get over the fun of my big white box of a camera. Eeee.
smitten kitchen - summer pea and roasted red pepper pasta salad
smitten kitchen - chicken Milanese
Delicious - Lamb and feta meatballs with tomato sauce
