IT'S A BAKING HOT DAY already, though it's barely mid-morning. Blue sky, heat-haze, sleeping dogs; sun flashing off every dreamily passing car. The local chippie's not open yet, else I'd be having breakfast from there (the chips really are wonderful). So I've been bumbling about the local shops like a bumble-bee, gathering ingredients for stuffed tortelloni with grated cheese and broccoli sprigs. Foreigners tend not to eat broccoli, so only one of the local shops, who seem to have a stock policy of "look at what the next one along sells and get that in too" even sell broccoli, the most superior of all greens (if you ask me). And yet every one of them has a Polish brand of coleslaw labelled Salata! and rank with flakes of what appear from the illustration to be salty, raw roll-mop herrings..!
I have so many things to do today (and not knowing quite what to do or how...)... I don't know where to start...... And what else can I say..?
I hate Mondays. It's too hot! And I hate Monday mornings most of all!!
*go out in the midday sun...
PS: THIS picture reminds me of Baby Itchy Roborovski ~ jumping for joy! ~ when she used to escape ...
Nothing quite like the joy of a puppy.
ReplyDeleteForeigners don't eat broccoli? How strange. As far as I know, everyone is supposed to eat broccoli here although there are those who don't like it. It's a staple in my fridge anyway, although it was never in my mother's.
Generally, there are no chips (or fries for that matter) available until the 11:00 lunch menus come up. In the morning, the only potatoes are hashbrowns or home fries - the little cubed potatoes which even though they are fried, don't seem the same as chips.
Oh for some hot weather!
ReplyDeleteAs for broccoli...I love the stuff...especially with Hollandaise sauce...yummmm.
Jeannie: foreign-run grocers rarely if ever stock broccoli ~ a "sauce" of quite some consternation at my last but one home... Think of it, how many Middle Eastern/North African recipes can you think of that really NEED broccoli..? It goes yummy with stuffed pasta and cheese and many an other Europeanized dish... but foreign food...? I don't think so (most un4tunately...)
ReplyDeletePuss-in-Boots: and you're writing from AUSTRALIA!!!~??!?!! Does it really get that cold on the Aussie mainland? I heard Melbourne can hit sub-zero in winters; is that correct..??!? If so how inconvenient, though I've never seen it on the official weather statistics...
No cut-up potatoes (inc. wedges) never are quite the same as chips, you're quite right...
mcDonald's really annoy me with their compulsory so-called "breakfast menu" up till 10:30 or so. Does ANYONE come in actually hoping for their idea of a poached egg..? Or anything else breakfasty? NO! Methinks they're compromising and too shy to declare "no! I came in for a lovely hamburger but I'm too unassertive to just turn on my heel and go!!" NO! In my opinion, McDonalds = hamburgers and nothing else ;->...
Good photo of the puppy and a nice reminder of Itchy. I hope that you get a pal for Spherical.
ReplyDeleteI love this hot weather! I also love broccoli! I'd have both every day if I could! :)
ReplyDeleteI want your sunshine. And yes, it's horrible on the East Coast of Oz at the moment. Cold, wet and no respite in sight until next week. I'm even contemplating buying a clothes dryer since my lounge room looks like a Chinese Laundry!
ReplyDeleteBon apetit! :-)
ReplyDeleteSyd: But I'm not sure Spherical could stand the stress; they're not guaranteed to get on with any other pygmy unless born in the same litter or introduced at a very young age indeed ...
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: I used to love hot weather ~ until blinkin' heroin addiction got me and all my heat-cold mechanisms became dysregulated... now every hot day's a sweating-like-a-swine fest. And on methadone it's even worse!
Baino: Ikea do a good fold-out metal one which holds one laundrette washload easily or two if tightly packed. A couple of them would make pleasantly light work of any family's washing requirements (as the brochure might say) ;->...
Baino: dank je wel!
I love this post, Gleddy. The photos are terrific.
ReplyDeleteLove to you,
SB
... and that hopping puppydog looks just like Baby Itchy Robbie (ha-ha!!)
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