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Good mornthing.
22/11/18 11:01 In America, where I live, it is a holiday called Thanksgiving. It tends to be characterized by an intersection of celebrations and stresses. I am attempting to maximize the former and minimize the latter by not travelling, and by making a small feast suitably sized for and catered to the tastes of the few people I am feeding. For myself, SALM, and Daughterchild, I will be roasting a smallish turkey with a rosemary garlic butter rub under the skin. I will be baking potatoes, for which there are the options of sour cream, butter, salt, pepper. I will steam carrots, and I will bake rolls.
It will be a simple meal, but delicious. Within our means, and soon within our bellies.
I am deliberately not setting unrealistic expectations for myself today. I know I can roast this turkey because I have done this specific recipe before; it was, in fact, the way I roasted the turkey on the last Thanksgiving before I left Spawnfather, when we hosted his family for the holiday. I know I can bake potatoes, because I have done it. Ditto the carrots. The only new thing are the rolls, which are merely brown-and-serve, simple and tasty.
Aside from the food, I plan to shower and do some more fiber arts. I have have spent the morning thus far finishing a scarf. It is the offset dragonflies pattern in a white vintage fisherman's yarn, and it is flipping lovely. After I have gotten the food into the oven, I am going to set about trying to translate the pattern from crochet into knitting. This is perhaps my one unrealistic expectation for the day, because I have not done this kind of translation before. However, I have done the pattern enough in crochet that I know it, and I have enough knit skills that I already have a pretty good idea in mind of how to go about it.
There will perhaps be some picking up in the living room.
There will probably be off-brand chambord-type liquor in seltzer, because the sweetness and the bubbles feel suitably festive.
There will likely be a movie and/or minecrafting later on.
I am thankful that I have the agency and ability to use today to care for others but also for myself - that it can largely be a day of rest.
I hope you are well. I am thankful to know you.
Hello, Blisstopia.<3
It will be a simple meal, but delicious. Within our means, and soon within our bellies.
I am deliberately not setting unrealistic expectations for myself today. I know I can roast this turkey because I have done this specific recipe before; it was, in fact, the way I roasted the turkey on the last Thanksgiving before I left Spawnfather, when we hosted his family for the holiday. I know I can bake potatoes, because I have done it. Ditto the carrots. The only new thing are the rolls, which are merely brown-and-serve, simple and tasty.
Aside from the food, I plan to shower and do some more fiber arts. I have have spent the morning thus far finishing a scarf. It is the offset dragonflies pattern in a white vintage fisherman's yarn, and it is flipping lovely. After I have gotten the food into the oven, I am going to set about trying to translate the pattern from crochet into knitting. This is perhaps my one unrealistic expectation for the day, because I have not done this kind of translation before. However, I have done the pattern enough in crochet that I know it, and I have enough knit skills that I already have a pretty good idea in mind of how to go about it.
There will perhaps be some picking up in the living room.
There will probably be off-brand chambord-type liquor in seltzer, because the sweetness and the bubbles feel suitably festive.
There will likely be a movie and/or minecrafting later on.
I am thankful that I have the agency and ability to use today to care for others but also for myself - that it can largely be a day of rest.
I hope you are well. I am thankful to know you.
Hello, Blisstopia.<3
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