Well I have been a busy little camper! I have been having fun making lots of experimental food to hopefully not poison good friends with. So far in the last two days I have made hummus, tzatziki, basil pesto, baba ganoush, grissini, pumpkin & pinenut salad, mushrooms with thyme, lamb kofta, chicken skewers and Guinness brownies. Still to go - raspberry coulis, assorted salads & antipasto /cheese platters to prepare. For four people. Anyone know a small third world country that needs feeding? I know the Guinness brownie dessert doesn't really go with the rest but, hey, John likes it! Hope I can manage to stay awake for the actual dinner....
This food stuff is good for keeping the mind busy. I'm afraid I have stopped reading/watching the news and am just scanning blogs I normal devour. I am having a case of *no idea what the world is coming to* itis. Our election here in Queensland seemed more like a predator feeding frenzy than a considered democratic process. How the utter destruction of one side makes for stable considered parliamentary process is beyond me. Did we learn nothing from the LNP/National walloping which saw them barely able to function in Opposition. Our new government spent many, many years in the wilderness as an Opposition without a clue. The steady revolving door of leadership, coupled with a seeming inability to engage with issues, kept them from being an alternative government. Somehow appointing a strange little micromanager from outside of the parliamentary party as leader seems to have the populous forgiving the obvious ineptitude of the sitting members. One Newman to rule them all, apparently.
And don't let me get started on the USA electoral debacle. Watching the Republican primaries just makes me wish a little that I didn't read so much science fiction. Hysterical flashes of "The Handmaids Tale" & "Little Brother" alternating with "Revolt in 2100". And that is just the political scene.........
I don't sleep well......
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