February 19, 2016

Friday - Thundery, but clear in the evening.

A good day.

Today I overslept just a tad.  I was up before I missed very much of The X-Files though.  Yay.  I had some tea and today I made myself some oatmeal, so had that with my tea.

I didn’t fall asleep on the couch today, so watched the shows and then just before 1 I did a two-mile walk/workout.  It felt quite good.  I did it with shoes on and used the band again.  

After I worked out, I went into the kitchen and started preparing my slow cooker for dinner.  I wanted to make a vegetarian stew that I’d seen on Facebook.  I got it started and then put everything in the slow cooker and left it.  It was later than I had hoped by then, but dinner wouldn’t be at an unreasonable time.  

I had a quick lunch of half an avocado and some bacon on toast and read a bit of my book too.  I’m in the midst of The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes.  I’m enjoying it as much as I usually enjoy her stuff. 

I quickly scanned my cards and then walked them off to the mailbox.  On the way back, I popped into the little vegetable shop near the post office and bought some spinach to go in the stew.  

When I got home, F called to say he was on his way home, and I washed the spinach and got it ready to go in the stew.  

F came home around 6 and I told him that dinner wouldn’t be ready until 7 ish.  That’s when we’ve been eating lately anyway.  I looked for our can opener and had a really hard time finding it…it had fallen over the back of the drawer and I had to pull out the drawer and fish around with my arm.  I wasn’t best pleased as I was trying to get things done quickly.  F got a case of the vapors and went to lie down in the bedroom.  

I took some of the towels that had fallen out of the drawer to put in my laundry basket and asked him how he was.  I checked that he would still eat with me and he said he would.  

I opened the coconut milk and added it and the spinach to the stew and then it was just a few minutes until dinnertime.  

We had lemon pepper chicken, curried vegetable and chickpea stew, plus salad and it was very nice.  I really enjoyed it and would like to make the recipe again.  I had to substitute a few things, but overall I think the recipe worked really well.  

F did the dishes and then during Castle I went and sat on the couch and did some knitting.  My hat is going a bit better this time.  F snoozed on the couch after I went back to my computer, and in fact is still there.  He’s tired and achy, poor thing.

Tomorrow I hope we’ll see a movie and we have to go to the glasses shop to see about getting me a new pair of glasses.  I’m wondering about getting a pair of glasses for all times rather than just when I need to read.  I tend to wear my specs all the time at home anyway.  


Come back later and find out what my Saturday was like.  Until tomorrow….

2 comments:

Rosa said...

Yum! You always seem to find really good recipes, like the curry stew. Sounds like a perfect winter dish. (We're hardly in the middle of winter here--it's been in the upper 70s all week and all the plants are budding out--but I might have to make a good, hearty stew for dinner this weekend anyway.)

Helen said...

The stew was good. I had to adapt a few things as I didn't have them, but other than that, I liked it! I follow The Kitchn on Facebook and this was one of their recipes.

I didn't have diced tomatoes so I used a small can of tomato sauce. I probably should have added more broth/consomme. I didn't have any cauliflower so I used broccoli and it all disappeared in the stew! I made a half version...oh, and I added a carrot since I had one in the fridge. Here's a link to the recipe if you want to check it out.

http://www.thekitchn.com/slow-cooker-recipe-curried-vegetable-and-chickpea-stew-67520