Gearing Up For Winter Comfort Foods
Damn it’s getting cold around here nowadays! Now when I mean “cold” I don’t mean cold in the traditional northern hemisphere way – not where it actually snows and reaches temperatures waaaay below zero! Nope, I mean cold by Australian – non mountainside at winter – type cold! OK, basically I’m talking a couple of degrees above zero Celsius. Not cold at all, huh? Well cold enough for someone who’s living in an open plan stone building in mid May in Melbourne!
The good thing is – and I must thank Amy for this one – that I can draw thick and heavy curtains across one doorway of the computer room (the doorway leading to the library) and close the sliding door to the bathroom and then crank up the heater so that there’s at least some warmth in the room. I can also switch on the electric blanket for when I go to bed. It doesn’t help though being out of whack again with my sleep patterns!
Due to said sleep patterns I haven’t done much in the way of work in the past few days. Basically I need some daylight hours so that I can cut up some wood for some small planes I need to make. When I do get around to it though I’ll be able to do the assembly and the rest of it at night.
It’s a good time to snuggle up in bed and watch TV…….not that you can do that all the time, but still.
To make things even goofier – for some bizarre reason I decided to buy some frozen yogurt on sticks (like ice-creams or ice lollies or whatever anyone else around the world might call them). I mean they taste GREAT, but why did I buy them at this time of year and in this house!!
I guess I need to start cooking some comfort food again? Nice casseroles and hearty stews and stuff like that. I need to be careful cause I usually go ape with this sort of thing and make a WHOLE CRAPLOAD of it in a HUGE ANTIQUE POT given to me by my mother. It’s not unusual for Amy and I to make large amounts of tuna casserole and then end up eating it over the next few weeks/months/years……well OK, maybe not years then. Anyhow, that’s what freezers are for!
Mmmmmmmm, tuna casserole sounds pretty good right now? I might go shopping tomorrow and pick up the ingredients and then start cooking.
Sounds like a plan!
It gets pretty cold up here in Minnesota but I have to say I have never been tempted to try tuna casserole, although here in MN, casseroles are called “hot dishes.” Do you put potato chips on your tuna casseroles in Australia? That’s pretty exotic up here. Do you use cream of mushroom soup? Ok, enough already.
It’s good stuff – well, if you like tuna it is. Otherwise it’s not so good.
We don’t usually put potato chips on any meals down here, but I know Amy’s family does it in the States (Pennsylvania). Usually we put cream of chicken soup in with the tuna casserole but I tried your mushroom idea as well. It was good!
Now I’m hungry again…..