marmite's Profile

Pizza with ricotta base and spinach & broccoli last night. Lunch today for the parents is roast topside of beef with Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes. It got frosty again around here!

English rhubarb just turned up in the greengrocer! So some kinda sweet rhubarb thing, maybe whole wheat muffins since I have way too much whole wheat flour. Not sure how that's gonna work out!

Eating up leftover slow cooked beef cheek, and making side and dessert for Mother's Day lunch (nobody panic... UK version!)

Inspired by Italian oranges at the greengrocer's, have done caramel-blood orange upside down cake. It was a little involved for my baking aversion, but it looks beautiful. Eating the caramelly bits from skillet not too much of a chore, either ;)

I am totally imagining bringing a coconut to the gym, and nestling it in the bottle holder on the treadmill, with a straw and a cocktail umbrella. It would really glam things up!

Signed up! I thought I submitted my email address in advance but now remember that it got glitchy when I tried to type on my phone.

We moved to a new place in August - can't believe it was that long ago - and have lost momentum. This will be great, since we now know better how the space feels, how we use it, what the light is like.

Today, grilled steaks as a late lunch for some friends, with roasted garam-masala-spiced cauliflower and carrots, and some very buttery mash. And then a long time lingering and chatting over coffee. Perfect after a frosty ride through the park!

Tonight was grilled pork with homemade applesauce and boiled potatoes. Tomorrow, beef and barley stew.

I kinda disagree. We have kept our kitchen in a much better state since shrinking the drying rack.

With a massive rack, our tendency was for the person who didn't cook would do the dishes alone and then leave stuff to dry overnight. We got a smaller rack which doesn't hold an entire meal's worth of pans and dishes, so now we habitually do dishes together, one washing, one drying. More social, and the job actually gets finished, so nice to come down to first thing in the morning :)

With the bin, personally I prefer to empty a small bin often, as it gets less gross. A big dirty smelly bin I find icky, and am liable to delay going near it.

This is a strange idea. Why would you not just put actual canned food up there; form AND function.

Or, is there something better you could do with the space? Wine bottle cubby holes, maybe?

Could you do something at waist height or thereabouts, to keep the light and keep the space open, but also create a division? Not sure what, perhaps a sliding gate at the top of the stairs, or a narrow console table between the stairway and the bed?