Feeling better: exercising, cooking
Jun. 16th, 2019 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcRecently it has temporarily been falling to me to organize more of our household matters and I have been enjoying it. After buying the groceries yesterday, driving in Dundee I found myself feeling content, almost happy, and enjoying the music on the radio which ranged from The Temptations to George Ezra. It wasn't exactly driving on a wide, straight American highway in my police car or sports car in the hot sun but it was something nonetheless.
For the first time in months, today I chose to do a longer workout during which I also listened to a range of popular music; those songs turned out to include a track sung by Alison Moyet whose voice engages my full attention; I mentioned her here a couple of years ago. After my workout I still felt good enough that I took a gentle jog around the square before I treated myself to a hot bath. My right side is still healing but now barely impedes my daily activity.
I had hoped to go for a walk but the weather has been distinctly changeable so maybe next Sunday instead when I have simple food planned. Today I have batter sitting for the crêpes we will be cooking in a while. While I embrace many American things I do tend to stick with my European culinary background: I adapted the crêpe recipe from my typical go-to, Prue Leith's Cookery Bible, though my fallback, the Sunday Times Cook's Companion, also has a recipe for them; no buttermilk or leavening for these. For the basics of cookery I use a manual that provides the background for the first few levels of the National Vocational Qualification in Food Preparation and Cooking.
For the first time in months, today I chose to do a longer workout during which I also listened to a range of popular music; those songs turned out to include a track sung by Alison Moyet whose voice engages my full attention; I mentioned her here a couple of years ago. After my workout I still felt good enough that I took a gentle jog around the square before I treated myself to a hot bath. My right side is still healing but now barely impedes my daily activity.
I had hoped to go for a walk but the weather has been distinctly changeable so maybe next Sunday instead when I have simple food planned. Today I have batter sitting for the crêpes we will be cooking in a while. While I embrace many American things I do tend to stick with my European culinary background: I adapted the crêpe recipe from my typical go-to, Prue Leith's Cookery Bible, though my fallback, the Sunday Times Cook's Companion, also has a recipe for them; no buttermilk or leavening for these. For the basics of cookery I use a manual that provides the background for the first few levels of the National Vocational Qualification in Food Preparation and Cooking.
