food and excercise

[2eclipse]

man am i wiped.
today i picked all the dandelions in our yard and started to make dandelion wine. i realized that i didn't have all the sugar i needed.
so i went biking.
and i biked to the store - all hills. i made lunch for myself(mmmmm...watercress salad) and finished the dandelion wine, which is now fermenting on my stove and will be left to sit for the next two days - a good thing since i need to figure out how to bottle it.
then i prepared scotch broth for dinner.
basically
stew meat
3 turnips
2 leeks
1 onion
3 carrots
2 small potatos - all stuck in a crockpot with water and cooked for 4 hours
1 head one chopped head of cabbage added at the last minute plus thyme, salt and pepper
turnips in anything always taste like scotland and ireland to me. maybe because i've never eaten them in this country except when i've prepared them myself. i love my celtic folklore cookbook.

then i went shopping for ross - he needs clothes
then i went straight to belly dancing.
then i brought in some of the fresh lilacs that are blooming to grace our table and ate some dinner.

now i will clean the cat box and break up boxes for recycling and then i will be able to relax.

Comments

[sunmother.livejournal.com]

It is such a great idea to bring in lots of lilacs before tackeling the cat box. :)
I admire your creative cooking. How does the Dandelion wine taste?
Also admire your exercising. I seem to have been sitting here typing papers for weeks.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

ya'know, i didn't even think of the lilacs in light of the cat box. i just kinda did it. mostly they just stink pretty around the dinner table, not all the way into the office. but now that it is warmer out and we have the windows open a lot (just not when it is raining all the damn time!), the house doesn't smell as much like cat. at least, _I_ don't smell it much.
i have no idea how long dandelion wine tastes. this is my first attempt at making it and i have never had any before. it will be another day before it is ready to taste.