"Cooking"

No mention will be made in this blog today to last night's Swans Vs Geelong footy match.  At one stage the knife was in my hand and sitting just above the arteries on my left wrist!  But I resisted temptation.  After all it is just a game!

We have a weather guy here in Queensland named Josh and he is the Channel 10 Weather guy.  Josh loves catastrophic weather events.  "A cyclone is now forming off Fiji and it might head east and it might strengthen to Category 9 and it might cross the coast into Queensland and 4,000 people might die!"

He is just drooling over the possibility of an "El Nino" later in the year which has a 70% chance of happening and may cause devastation to the farmers in the outback!

Last night there was no doom and gloom, just the possibility of a light shower or two but nothing more in his evening weather forecast.  So overnight we have had well over an inch of rain!  It poured down there for a while washing out any thought of a bike ride this morning.  Had Josh have known we were going to get a storm or two he could have predicted flash flooding, sand bag your home, move everything above the floodline, he would have loved it.

It is quite overcast out side and we could get another shower or so later on.

With no bike ride this morning and with Trish safely arrived down in Melbourne for the next 5 nights I was able to get on with my "cooking"!  Well the first task did involve the big stainless steel pot and a fair bit of mixing.

I put a brew on this morning and used the big steel pot to mix the ingredients all together.  The brew is almost bubbling in the garage now and it only went on around 5 hours ago.

Next, the big steel pot was used for my perennial favorite whenever Trish goes away and I stay home, "Curried Sausages".  I have used a couple of sachets of mix, 8 snags, 4 potatoes, a couple of onions and 2 carrots and it is simmering away.  It smells pretty good.

Needless to say it later on it may get a teaspoon or two of Springvale Chilli Oil just to give it a lift

Before serving I will add a couple of handfuls of peas and the casserole will be my main 'fare' for the next few days.

I have discovered that a non-stick pot would have been a better choice for my casserole rather than the stainless steel one.  All has now been transferred to the non-stick variety and with some elbow grease and a scourer the stainless steel container is back nice and shiny in the cupboard.

However the Noodle Shop at Golden Beach which sells a version of Char Koay Teow may get a run as well one night.