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Enjoying a weekend at home while I can
Friday I worked from home and then went in for Phire training from 17:00-19:00, and played on the aerial silks with the new students, after which Villiam came over and worked on his jester costume while I started sewing my new linen jester lace-up undertunic thing. Damn that fabric is nice! It is the stuff I bought a couple of summers ago at Spelmansstämman at the folk costume both, where one can buy second hand costumes or fabric for making them. Whomever put it there to sell must have had it there a long time, one doesn’t see linen that nice in stores very often these days. I am going to love wearing this thing.
Saturday I worked from home, making progress on a grant application, then took a break to do a little painting around the windows were we had replaced some caulking earlier this summer, and harvested the kale and silverbeet from the garden. It isn’t supposed to freeze any time soon, and it can take a frost, so I could have left it lots longer, but I know that I will be to busy to deal with it later, and I had a bit of time to spare. I put some cloves of water into a pot with water, and then used the water to steam the greens and ran them through the food processor with some tofu, then I steamed some store bought zucchini and some carrot too, then blended the steaming water with the veg and tofu. It filled one pot about 3/4 full, which is quite a contrast to the two pots worth I made last year—a hot dry summer is not good for the garden, especially when one is out of town during the worst of it and can’t water the poor plants. Later in the evening I made a harvest green lasagna like thing out of it:
Butter a large pan, cover the bottom with a layer of homemade egg noodle dough, rolled out to the thinnest setting on the pasta machine. Brush with a thin layer of melted butter, sprinkle on a blend of chopped walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds, add a layer of the cooked and blended veg and tofu (there isn’t much tofu in there compared to the total volume), then continuing layering as before. For the final layer of dough butter it, sprinkle on a thinner layer of nuts, and carefully scoop a little of the separated green water from the pot of veg, to make the top wet, with a hint of chopped greens, but not so much as to make an actual layer. Bake. Slice and freeze most of it to take for road trips later. Freeze the remaining green sauce in little silicon muffin cups to add to other meals later (there was just enough to do one dozen muffin cups).
Today I also worked from home, this time preparing a single pdf of all of the maps I need for next week’s field trip, so that I can print it out and make myself a booklet. I took a break to bake some Grahame crackers, and then used them in a summoning spell, sent by text message: “today’s baking is Grahame crackers, lightly sweetened with honey and a bit of Cinnamon”, to which Villiam replied “I will be there in 20 minutes”. He hadn’t eaten yet, so I fed him the Harvest green lasagna and some Grahame crackers and saw some videos from last night’s fire show (which I didn’t attend, since it was in the city centre, and I didn’t feel I could spare the time). Then we went to the Phire board meeting and I finished up the maps for next week in good time to head to folk dance.
There were only five of us there this week, since some are sick and others are travelling, but it was much fun anyway. Our dance teacher has found a CD of odd Swedish folk dance music which has been heavily influenced by other musical styles, including some forms of Metal (I don’t know enough about metal to guess which form(s) might have contributed). One can still hear the underlying Swedish folk music rhythms, and can tell if it is a polska, a schottish, a hambo, etc. Yet the whole flavor is rather different, so we were having fun dancing to it, playing with the styles and modifying stuff to see what worked.
This week, like most of them will be busy, with Nyckleharpa on Monday, Phire practice followed by Choir on Tuesday, Parkour and Aerial silks on Wednesday, and a folk dance performance for some group on Thursday. Then on Friday I will take the train to Umeå, where I will meet Drake and ride with him to a village a bit inland from Sundsvall where I will attend the Gyllengran XXX Jubilee event. On Sunday I will take the train further south to Göteborg, where I will stay with an SCA friend on Monday, and on Tuesday morning my cousin Carola will pick me up and we will then spend the next four to six days driving to 17 different locations where soapstone has been, or could be quarried in southern Sweden. If every outcrop is easy to find, and I can get away with as little as 30 minutes at each stop and we drive directly from one to the next with no detours then it can be done in four days. This is why I booked my return train from Uppsala on the following Sunday evening, to allow for some flexibility in the trip.
Saturday I worked from home, making progress on a grant application, then took a break to do a little painting around the windows were we had replaced some caulking earlier this summer, and harvested the kale and silverbeet from the garden. It isn’t supposed to freeze any time soon, and it can take a frost, so I could have left it lots longer, but I know that I will be to busy to deal with it later, and I had a bit of time to spare. I put some cloves of water into a pot with water, and then used the water to steam the greens and ran them through the food processor with some tofu, then I steamed some store bought zucchini and some carrot too, then blended the steaming water with the veg and tofu. It filled one pot about 3/4 full, which is quite a contrast to the two pots worth I made last year—a hot dry summer is not good for the garden, especially when one is out of town during the worst of it and can’t water the poor plants. Later in the evening I made a harvest green lasagna like thing out of it:
Butter a large pan, cover the bottom with a layer of homemade egg noodle dough, rolled out to the thinnest setting on the pasta machine. Brush with a thin layer of melted butter, sprinkle on a blend of chopped walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds, add a layer of the cooked and blended veg and tofu (there isn’t much tofu in there compared to the total volume), then continuing layering as before. For the final layer of dough butter it, sprinkle on a thinner layer of nuts, and carefully scoop a little of the separated green water from the pot of veg, to make the top wet, with a hint of chopped greens, but not so much as to make an actual layer. Bake. Slice and freeze most of it to take for road trips later. Freeze the remaining green sauce in little silicon muffin cups to add to other meals later (there was just enough to do one dozen muffin cups).
Today I also worked from home, this time preparing a single pdf of all of the maps I need for next week’s field trip, so that I can print it out and make myself a booklet. I took a break to bake some Grahame crackers, and then used them in a summoning spell, sent by text message: “today’s baking is Grahame crackers, lightly sweetened with honey and a bit of Cinnamon”, to which Villiam replied “I will be there in 20 minutes”. He hadn’t eaten yet, so I fed him the Harvest green lasagna and some Grahame crackers and saw some videos from last night’s fire show (which I didn’t attend, since it was in the city centre, and I didn’t feel I could spare the time). Then we went to the Phire board meeting and I finished up the maps for next week in good time to head to folk dance.
There were only five of us there this week, since some are sick and others are travelling, but it was much fun anyway. Our dance teacher has found a CD of odd Swedish folk dance music which has been heavily influenced by other musical styles, including some forms of Metal (I don’t know enough about metal to guess which form(s) might have contributed). One can still hear the underlying Swedish folk music rhythms, and can tell if it is a polska, a schottish, a hambo, etc. Yet the whole flavor is rather different, so we were having fun dancing to it, playing with the styles and modifying stuff to see what worked.
This week, like most of them will be busy, with Nyckleharpa on Monday, Phire practice followed by Choir on Tuesday, Parkour and Aerial silks on Wednesday, and a folk dance performance for some group on Thursday. Then on Friday I will take the train to Umeå, where I will meet Drake and ride with him to a village a bit inland from Sundsvall where I will attend the Gyllengran XXX Jubilee event. On Sunday I will take the train further south to Göteborg, where I will stay with an SCA friend on Monday, and on Tuesday morning my cousin Carola will pick me up and we will then spend the next four to six days driving to 17 different locations where soapstone has been, or could be quarried in southern Sweden. If every outcrop is easy to find, and I can get away with as little as 30 minutes at each stop and we drive directly from one to the next with no detours then it can be done in four days. This is why I booked my return train from Uppsala on the following Sunday evening, to allow for some flexibility in the trip.