Thinking of you Hotes
I'm glad you had the opportunity to say goodbye to your relative but very sorry that it was necessary.
Also much love to anyone else who's having a difficult time, for big or small reasons, and delighted to see that Sideboard Cat is home. I haven't seen her before, what a gorgeous little punk!
I fear I have done a slop of Jackesque proportions today. I had the (ingenious, I thought) idea of blending a charred aubergine and mixing it with pesto for pasta sauce, only once it was burned I realised it was far too smoky and would completely overpower the dish, so I decided to make that chilli recipe everyone raves about instead. Then I discovered part way through that I didn't have all the ingredients, including the tomatoes which are pretty essential, so was looking round my kitchen for anything acidic that would go with lentils. After a moment of sheer desperation where I was actually debating whether a chopped nectarine would be better than nothing, I remembered the random jars of Eastern European pickles I panic bought in March 2020 when I thought the shops might run out of fruit and veg, and found a jar of peppers that expired eight months ago and was covered in a thick layer of dust. My delicious recipe for feta and botulism chilli (0.7p) will be posted when I'm less BUSY.