Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Do you not make chilli con carne? Or harissa?

Here is a harissa recipe that has a fair bit of tomato in it (you could also halve the amount of dried chillies in it).

https://tomwebster25.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/homemade-harissa-paste/

Goes well in hummus, roasted veg, pasta and rubbed over chicken wings before baking.

 

I absolutely hate chilli con carne @rosebay and im not sure i like harissa

I dont tend to eat spicy stuff since i became ill to be honest. Cream cheese jalapenos are about it these days lol

 

somehow I missed this thread, will have to go back and have a read.
So far, not much done, the typical errands, get the mail, go to the Amish veggie stand, get veggies and eggs, do some laundry, clean some pillows, hang to dry, tidy up something. Bought a chicken to roast later. got on the computer to roam around a bit, but have to contact a manager about renting a house in Key West, Fl, for our May trip, as we are looking to try a different area. Then got distracted by this thread. After, moving of the computer, will go outside to garden, and put my chicken in the oven.

 

Yes that's the more usual kind of recipe. I have a similar one that I use. I chose to link the tomato one for Dips as I thought it might be less powerful.

I think your suggestion for Dips to find someone who likes dried chillies might be the best bet.

 

We are decorating the lounge next month . Went picking wallpaper for the feature wall - I hate picking wallpaper . Went looking at Italian leather sofas - I hate Italian leather sofa price tags ! Went to a charity bash my friend organised , Peroni Azzurro on draught - I love Italian beer!

 

in our decorating mode, we took down all the wallpaper from the prior owners. The walls are getting filled with an assortment of art. Attending local auctions, you can find some good stuff cheap, in great frames. The living room was just repainted, and art is being rotated, husband really into it.
Slept in today, will spend most of the day out in the gardens as the weather is perfect here, little chill etc. Still working on my coffee now.

 

Yesterday i had my physio again. In the last month i have gone from only being able to sit on the wobble cushion for five minutes to being able to stand on it unaided for 20 mins and to be able to stand on it on one leg with a bit of aid.

How quickly my body is responding and improving is amazing. i have a naturally more muscular body I have always been chunky and i have been overweight since i was 6 months old (if i was a bottle fed baby i would if been put on a diet). For years and years before i got sick i did aerobic sports and i never lost weight or got slimmer. Now im barely doing anything but only focusing on anaerobic stuff and muscle strengthening and i have gone down a trouser size and recently went down a bra back size and now i need to go down another one.

My body is loving it. I wish i had done this years and years ago. Aerobic exercise did nothing for my body compared to this.

My illness isnt getting better but making my body stronger is making it a lot easier to live with.

Im doing so well with physio we are stopping weekly sessions and moving to every two weeks instead

I can also walk in some of my heels again. My ankles are a tad week but standing on the wobble cushion is going to help that a lot.

Im really enjoying seeing my body change and become stronger altho most of my body is shrinking my thighs and calfs are just getting bigger and bigger but then i have always had really muscular legs with minimal effort.

 

At the office, paperwork etc. later today, out to dinner with brother -in-law and his wife Ewa who is in the USA from Poland. So before she flies back we try to get together. Seems she spends half the year in Poland and the other half here, and he also. Guess the marriage works.

 

at the office working. leaving soon, have to figure out dinner, thinking of fish.

 

Oh I agree, @redstar!

We have loads of original artwork hanging on our walls. Are we rolling in money? No way, and certainly not when most of the art was bought. We would visit the local amateur art festival each year, always trying to get there on the first day. The routine was to find the picture that we both loved (there was one most years), and if we could afford it, buy it. If there were other gems, that were well framed, to buy them. Often we would be getting an original watercolour or oil, framed the way the artist approved of, for less than the cost of a mass-produced frame.