Weekly Update

Another week went by very quickly. 

Little by little I feel less stressed about the workload. Two more weeks until the end of this semester! 💃💃💃

This week I tried two new recipes. 

The first one is called Dutch Baby pancake. I saw it on YouTube, and then found the recipe by the same chef here.  I was expecting something similar to a pancake, but it was so light and fluffy. Like a souffle. I plan to change the recipe and make a savory version. 😊

Dutch Baby Pancake.

I also made potato flat bread. I saw this recipe on Facebook. It needs 2 mashed potatoes, 1 cup of all purpose flour, 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of baking powder. 

Potato flatbread.

I received another produce box from Misfits Market.  It had a small cucumber, a turnip, two beetroots, two sweet potatoes, two green peppers, onions, a bunch of parsley, Serrano peppers, and four types of fruits. I sprayed the box with Lysol before opening it, washed everything except parsley with soapy water and washed parsley in water with vinegar. Then I dried everything, put the box and wrapping material in the trash bin, and disinfected the counter top.  It took almost 30 minutes. 

I was tired and thinking what a bother it was until I realized how lucky I was. I could afford to have a box of organic produce delivered. Sometimes it is so easy to forget how fortunate we are in many ways. 

The other day I saw a link to this article titled  "These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America" on Mae's Food Blog. It's heart breaking to see how people suffer without enough food. 

We had a couple of rainy and cooler days.  The garden is doing so well after rain. 

I started this sweet potato vine from a small piece of store bought potato. 

Yesterday I noticed these tiny brussels sprouts!  I can't wait to pick them. I hope bugs won't destroy them. Already lubber grass hoppers are eating leaves. 

I was so excited to see flowers on the passion fruit vine again.  Hopefully there will be another crop of fruits in this summer.  Mom said I could cook tender passion leaves, so I plan to make some soon. The only problem is that the vine is going up a cherry laurel tree and I need a ladder to get to tender leaves. 

They are hard to see, but there is a bunch of passion flowers here.

Leeks.

I had to go to my office to pick up a folder. We are supposed to do the annual review and I had all my professional development stuff in a folder in the office. While there, I also got the equipment to create extra videos in the summer. The parking lot next to our building was almost empty. There were couple of cars of colleagues, but I picked up the stuff I needed and left without meeting anyone. 

I completed all assignments and tests for the upcoming week by Friday, and decided not to do anything work related during the weekend. I was about 90% successful. I replied to several emails from students who waited until the last moment to finish assignments. I started reading a new e-book, How Paris Became Paris - The Invention of the Modern City by  Joan DeJean. This brings so many memories of the times I spent in France. It's been 11 years since I left Paris. 

When this pandemic is over, and everything is back to normal, I will go there again. 🗼

This week I'm grateful for:

1) a safe trip to school.

2) a couple of rainy days.

3) more passion fruit flowers.

4) cool mornings.

5) another box of produce from Misfits Markets.

6) having a backyard.

7) phone chats with family and friends.

XXX
Nil