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No sugar? Mission impossible

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May 17th, 2021

Daughter mine wanted another dessert with strawberries one she could do without my help. There´s an easy recipe which I often serve in summer, when there are berries aplenty: curd, whipped cream, a tad of sugar and lots of (straw)berries. Daughter did the cutting and the whipping, and since she needs to lose some pounds she insisted on doing the sweetening, too. I watched her from afar, to see her face when she tasted her dessert. One teaspoon, and off she was to get the sugar out of the cupboard. I almost had to laugh. I had tasted the strawberries, they were awful- red but sour and incredibly hard. With sugar aplenty the dessert was no more in line with her diet but edible at least!
Today I have compiled clutter in my studio- cachepots, vases, candlesticks, two lucky cats and some Japanese knickknack I´d have loved to keep but do not have room enough for. Three boxes will get to our church´s flea market in June. I am so glad that I know one of the church ladies well, she will come and pick the boxes up tomorrow and bring them to the church community centre. I am also glad that church flea markets are held again. Took our politicians long enough to allow them to happen! Today is also bread baking day. No, I do not do a week´s contingent of bread as daughter-in-law does. Mostly I bake one or two small loafs, the rest will get acquired in the bakery. Bakers need to live off their job also. I like the smell of freshly baked bread all over the house. It smells way better than the air fresheners we have installed all over the house. And now I am off to get my bread out of the oven. Alexa is jingling...

No sugar? Mission impossible

Daughter mine wanted another dessert with strawberries one she could do without my help. There´s an easy recipe which I often serve in summer, when there are berries aplenty: curd, whipped cream, a tad of sugar and lots of (straw)berries. Daughter did the cutting and the whipping, and since she needs to lose some pounds she insisted on doing the sweetening, too. I watched her from afar, to see her face when she tasted her dessert. One teaspoon, and off she was to get the sugar out of the cupboard. I almost had to laugh. I had tasted the strawberries, they were awful- red but sour and incredibly hard. With sugar aplenty the dessert was no more in line with her diet but edible at least!
Today I have compiled clutter in my studio- cachepots, vases, candlesticks, two lucky cats and some Japanese knickknack I´d have loved to keep but do not have room enough for. Three boxes will get to our church´s flea market in June. I am so glad that I know one of the church ladies well, she will come and pick the boxes up tomorrow and bring them to the church community centre. I am also glad that church flea markets are held again. Took our politicians long enough to allow them to happen! Today is also bread baking day. No, I do not do a week´s contingent of bread as daughter-in-law does. Mostly I bake one or two small loafs, the rest will get acquired in the bakery. Bakers need to live off their job also. I like the smell of freshly baked bread all over the house. It smells way better than the air fresheners we have installed all over the house. And now I am off to get my bread out of the oven. Alexa is jingling...