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<\/p>\nIn lieu of my husband\u2019s presence, who is in lockdown with an old classmate of his instead of us (long story), I have had to become the family\u2019s chief food provider. \u00a0I haven\u2019t been in charge of meals since my husband and I first moved in together many years ago, and he soon afterwards asked me to please stop cooking. It\u2019s been a very satisfactory arrangement, until now. I don\u2019t have to figure out meals from scratch, thank goodness – my husband\u2019s club has a sort of old fashioned and less helpful My Food Bag type arrangement, which we\u2019ve ordered. The last two meals were toad in the hole, and chops, and the recipes will often come with little surprises like \u201cserve with mashed potatoes, peas and gravy\u201d as the last sentence, when they haven\u2019t actually given you any of the relevant ingredients.<\/p>\n
Still, the meals have been surprisingly successful. Here\u2019s the aforementioned toad in the hole:<\/p>\n
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And here\u2019s chicken wrapped in bacon from the night before:<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve really been quite astounded at how well they\u2019ve turned out. There seem to be some culinary skills hidden away far back in my lizard brain that are suddenly coming to the fore. Of course I did do cooking way back in intermediate school, and in fact I was the teacher\u2019s pet, if I remember rightly. I have no idea why, but I do remember the exact moment when I fell from grace. It was when they were reading over the loudspeaker the list of all those students who had detention that day (those were harsh times), and my name was on the list. I\u2019d been late to school. The cooking teacher never spoke to me again. The shame! \u00a0Anyway, she must have imparted some knowledge to me in those classes because some of those old skills have come back to me quite gratifyingly in the past couple of weeks, just when they were needed.<\/p>\n
On a completely unrelated topic, the jeans I wear when I walk the dogs in the evening have rather disquietingly become somewhat shrunken over the last fortnight, which is odd as I haven\u2019t washed them. A mystery. Could be extra muscle mass from all the walking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In lieu of my husband\u2019s presence, who is in lockdown with an old classmate of his instead of us (long story),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-1b3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12275,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/evening-update-oct-2nd-stateroom-6060\/","url_meta":{"origin":4529,"position":0},"title":"Evening update Oct 2nd stateroom 6060","author":"Interloper11","date":"October 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The move has been a great success so far: even though it\u2019s only been 15 minutes I have a good feeling about it. 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