cooking with memories.....

i'm watching the food safari dvds now from what ballarat paul loaned me

the intro music and 'singing' sounds like how i sing coldplay at work LOL maybe the lyrics were written by those morons lol

good day at work today, pretty busy, and lots of doors and door bits sold which was good..... i suppose it'll make me look good but i always remind others that you can't actively sell doors - it's too much of a niche market and it's something that sells itself... i'm just there to educate customers on the rules of doors and to remind them of measurements being important...

had a lovely old lady come and ask for a solid door, she'd been broken into a couple of times and i could see her body just shivering from nervousness... poor thing... nothing worse than being broken into...

happened once in oak flats... so we shifted the computer to alex's room without internet access for a couple weeks until dad constructed security bars for the windows around the rumpus room out the back...

and i always remember when going online for the first time afterwards, the mailing list i was subscribed to for the corrs, it sent individual emails for each person that was sending something to the list.... i think i got about 624 emails after 2 weeks.... took quite a few days to sift through them all lol

train trip was nice today - once again it really helped to shorten my work day by being able to relax in the morning on way to work and snooze a bit, and vice versa on return trip home again...

meanwhile the weather is beautiful and cool now... can't wait for the middle of winter... beautiful cold days, frosty icy nights sitting by the fire... snuggled in warm clothes and a blanket whilst watching something funny...

so i tried making one of the 'marion' asian food meal pack thingo whatsit's tonight for dinner - singapore noodles.... i really like singapore noodles....

i don't like marion's singapore noodles lol

it was really quite a let down, and i ended up turfing it in the bin...

i cannot remember the last time i even threw out a meal i cooked from tasting so bad... not that it tasted bad, but just wasn't what i expected at all and very bland and not flavoursome like some dishes of the same thing i've had at asian restaurants.....

actually i do remember the last time i threw something in the bin, on a technicality really lol

it was in seddon, soon after i booted the fat man and i stopped having to get the police involved lol, i was making my favourite gnocci dish with a cream sauce with bacon and mushrooms.... i got to the stage where everything (except gnocci) was in the fry pan and about to start simmering.... i picked up the tupperware grinder i had full of rock salt (which i had recently filled up with rock salt).... i started to turn the container to grind salt into the pan.... and SPLAT! the bloody container opened up and all the bloody salt fell into the pan!!!!!!!!!! i was so annoyed lol

so it went straight into the bin, i mean, i love salt, but not that much!

that was around the time i was putting chilli in everything i possibly could..... and around the time i had a shower after dinner with a few vodkas and i fell down and bruised my ribs big time from slipping over (shower over bath setup... never trust those things again.....)....

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thank god i didn't live there for that long lol