Collecting my straying thoughts
Today it’s super hot and going to be even super-hotter tomorrow. At 9 pm it’s still over 32 degrees (that’s 90 degrees Fahrenheit) and Canberra is in the cool mountains. Apparently it’s horrendous elsewhere.
The heat began about the time my father died and hasn’t quite let up, so it getting hotter this weekend is more enervating than it would be if we’d just had a couple of days of high temperatures. What this means is that I may not be very energetic for a few days.
You know what this means? More ingredients.
I could just not blog, of course, but that wouldn’t be fair on everyone who is not enduring great heat. And you might be stuck in a northern blizzard and need the joy of knowing the name of your favourite ingredient in Swahili to get you through that.
When the heat is past and I wake up again, I shall start handing out recipes to people who want to try Southern cooking from the nineteenth century and we’ll get on with testing for the Conflux banquet. I’ve also got a whole heap of cookbooks and cooking ephemera to introduce you to. And I promised I would explore the joys of food poisoning, with a special emphasis on rye and ergot.
I can’t help thinking that there’s something wrong in promising you will enjoy the last bit, even though several of you have pushed for it in particular.
There will be other stuff, as I remember it. Just not yet. Tomorrow and Sunday for certain-sure and maybe for a bit longer, there will be ingredients. Some of which will have small jokes attached. Some with recipes. But ingredients. Just till the heat abates.
Tomorrow, I have to admit, I shall be very glad I don’t live in Dubbo. They’re predicting 117 degrees Fahrenheit for Dubbo. If I were living in Dubbo, you would not be getting even an ingredients post! For the record, there are elephants in Dubbo – the Western Plains Zoo is located there. It would be a good supply of puns, if I weren’t feeling lethargic. Instead I shall just send sympathetic vibes out to those poor overheated animals and birds.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:45 am
I LOOOOVE the ingredients posts!
– Laura
February 6th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Then I feel less troubled by the heat