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Dec. 7th, 2008 12:06 pmMy home is cleaaaaaaan!
I spent the morning tidying and cooking; I'm going to have a lot of food for lunches this week. So far I've made and frosted a cake, put the game hen in to brine, and made a small chicken casserole. The chicken casserole is simple and delicious -- a chopped chicken breast mixed with canned cream of chicken (or cream of mushroom, I use mushroom) soup and topped with stuffing, baked for half an hour at 400. After a bit of a break I'm going to make the pumpkin brownies, roast the game hen, and strip the bird to make an experimental new form of quasi-enchilada.
The quasi-enchilada concept came about because I bought tortillas and PeaPod delivered the wrong size -- I wanted big ones for proper enchiladas and they brought me tiny ones instead. So I'm going to deconstruct it a bit -- layering flat sauce-drenched tortillas with cheese and a refried-beans-and-chicken mixture in a circular cake pan. It'd work better if the cake pan was just a trifle smaller, but I'll make do.
The roomba is less moody these days -- its battery is holding a charge a lot longer than it was, which I think is the result of letting the battery run down and charging it for the proper length of time, something I inadvertently didn't do when I first got it. True to form, it is making love to the snowboots that I left in the kitchen, and ignoring that hussy the automated trash-can completely.
I think what I like most about the Roomba is how it gets everywhere. The places that get messiest in my home are the places that it's hardest to get a conventional vacuum into: under the coffee table and baker's rack, along the kitchen floorboards, and behind the futon. The Roomba hasn't got any problem with any of these; it practically yearns to go roomburbling about under my sofa.
Oh, it also really likes that blanket the christmas tree is sitting on in the living room. Like, a lot.
I spent the morning tidying and cooking; I'm going to have a lot of food for lunches this week. So far I've made and frosted a cake, put the game hen in to brine, and made a small chicken casserole. The chicken casserole is simple and delicious -- a chopped chicken breast mixed with canned cream of chicken (or cream of mushroom, I use mushroom) soup and topped with stuffing, baked for half an hour at 400. After a bit of a break I'm going to make the pumpkin brownies, roast the game hen, and strip the bird to make an experimental new form of quasi-enchilada.
The quasi-enchilada concept came about because I bought tortillas and PeaPod delivered the wrong size -- I wanted big ones for proper enchiladas and they brought me tiny ones instead. So I'm going to deconstruct it a bit -- layering flat sauce-drenched tortillas with cheese and a refried-beans-and-chicken mixture in a circular cake pan. It'd work better if the cake pan was just a trifle smaller, but I'll make do.
The roomba is less moody these days -- its battery is holding a charge a lot longer than it was, which I think is the result of letting the battery run down and charging it for the proper length of time, something I inadvertently didn't do when I first got it. True to form, it is making love to the snowboots that I left in the kitchen, and ignoring that hussy the automated trash-can completely.
I think what I like most about the Roomba is how it gets everywhere. The places that get messiest in my home are the places that it's hardest to get a conventional vacuum into: under the coffee table and baker's rack, along the kitchen floorboards, and behind the futon. The Roomba hasn't got any problem with any of these; it practically yearns to go roomburbling about under my sofa.
Oh, it also really likes that blanket the christmas tree is sitting on in the living room. Like, a lot.
