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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Dream on!!!

I do like the new link I have pinned to my start menu. It only takes 2 clicks to get to my blog Word document instead of about 4!! I know this is a small thing but over time it halves the number of times I have to click. Yesterday I went to the Library, paid some money of my watch bill, picked up my jeans from lay-by and went to the supermarket for a small shop. ($50!!!) I was dragging myself around I felt so tired. The Labradors had a walk and went swimming in the icy cold dam. It is lucky they have a double coat, just like a Tim tam really!!! I shouldn’t have felt so tired but I did. In fact I slept in this morning till 10-30 am. I woke up for ½ an hour or so and put the garbage out and had a cup of tea. Then it was back to sleep and I dreamed I was dreaming a dream. Very weird and unsettling to be wake up and still be dreaming!!! I made delicious pork chops with apple, red onion and mushroom grainy mustard sauce and broccolini for tea last night. I am on a broccolini push. I have had it 3 days in a row now. It only takes 5 minutes to cook, little more than a long blanch, and you eat the stems too. It is great with a tiny squeeze of lemon juice. I made enough for 2 and I have just eaten the second meal for my lunch. I was going to have grilled bacon and scrambled eggs on toast but I have no bread and I am too lazy to go up to the corner bakery to buy some. I have to go to the bone marrow and blood specialist today so I am having a tiny decline. I feel slightly sick in my stomach.
The weather is very good at the moment : a heavy dew in the cool morning, a sunny and fine day and then a cool night so you can have a hot water bottle and snuggle under the doona without having to stick a leg and arm out as it gets too hot!!!!!
I have almost cut out all of the cushions for school and I can blanket stitch and appliqué (I can’t make a French acute, grave or circumflex but the spell checker can) while I am watching TV or tonight when we have our first sewing night!!!
It is amazing that 1553 people have visited my old blog in the last month. Do they use the recipes? Do they use it to click on the clicky link to this blog? I have no idea if anyone reads this at all as my Luddite side holds me back from looking into adding a counter. I should try really. I might do that next week. Always put off till tomorrow or next week what you can do today. I really need another nap already.

Greek Almond Biscuits
375 g almond meal
220 g caster sugar
3 drops of almond essence
3 egg whites lightly beaten
80 g flaked almonds
Preheat oven to 180 C ( 160 ff) and line a tray. Combine meal and sugar, stir in wet ingredients and make a firm paste. Roll tablespoons of mixture into log shapes and then into flaked almonds, curve into crescent shapes. Bake for 15 minutes and cool on tray.