So I played hookie today. Not really, because the requirement for me basically is to be there when I have to teach: since I am co-teaching the course this summer we don't always both have to be there, and today I had to go to the doctor's: a legitimate excuse. So it was only hookie in my mind. But it was good hookie.
This afternoon I took a nap. A siesta. An afternoon snooze. Forty winks. A cat nap. Whatever the words, it was wonderful: and just long enough.
I threw some pain ordinaire together. That's white bread, folks, with not much fuss or frenzy, just the recipe that you see on the back of flour bags. (Well, okay, perhaps a little bit of breadbox's magic touch:-)
I made some soup. Basic, homey, satisfying chicken soup. The house smells wonderful! To echo the poem from Archy and Mehitabel that I posted a few days ago,
breakfast breakfast
i am full of breakfast
and they are at breakfast
in heaven
they breakfast in heaven
all s well with the world
i am full of breakfast
and they are at breakfast
in heaven
they breakfast in heaven
all s well with the world
It's not breakfast, but the sentiment is the same!
Yours, purring,
N.
18 comments:
I love your sense of humour and sensibilities and sense of scents...
I played hookie today too!! Now, I have been punished .....am about to entertain 8 13 year olds and 2 9 year olds shooting off fireworks down by the river....
michele says hi and so do i.
What time is dinner? Im on my way! :) Hope you had a good day playing Hookie :) I think we all need days like that.
Oh YUM, du bon pain frais! I can smell it from here.
I love those days when u steal alittle extra time for yourself.
Michele sent me today ..glad I stopped by. Have a great day.
I play hooky every day :D
I think plain white bread can be very nice...or really horrible depending on how it's baked (I've been to some potluck dinners and such where someone's baked bread was NOT so nice), but "plain" can be nice!
Michele sent me here tonight to say hello and wish I had some homemade bread!
Moon: since you live where you can just walk round the corner and get real bread, I envy you --- though if I had lived there ten years ago I'd have missed all the fun of learning to make bread:-)
Stephanie: I try to make sure that my plain white bread is pretty darn good: and it was tonight. Check further down the blog for recipes which suggest a couple of simple things to try to improve the flavour!
N.
I love to think about "breakfast in Heaven"
I also love breakfast for supper.
Michelle sent me.
Your blog reminds me that it's lunchtime. I'm off to do some baking of my own :) Michele sent me, or rather, someone else popped in between us, but I decided to visit anyway
OOOH A NAP!! How loverly! I'm glad you got to have one.
And please save me some homemade chicken soup--I LOVE that stuff.
(oh, Michele sent me!)
Chancy: beware --- they "breakfast in heaven" refers to the fact that the robin has eaten an angleworm and another bug. He's singing his heart out, and in a moment Mehitabel the cat will creep up on him and he
"went the way of all flesh fish and good red herring".
Catherine: enjoy baking! At least it is the time of year for it there!
N.
aka_monty: any time! and the nap was an unplanned but pleasant diversion.
N.
Howdy. Here from Michele's tonight.
you know I have such good associations with making bread.
it's so comforting to me now. nkeading is the joy of life for the most part...and then there's killing zombies. Sorry I've been playing to many video games lately .
Michele sent me to say h and thanks for commenting on my blog earlier.
I understand where you're coming from & wish I'd taken a nap today myself.
I played hookie all week due to a sick kid! Now that she's doing better I'm enjoying the time off in retrospect.
Michele sent me today.
Hi- sounds like a wonderful day! Michele sent me..
This is off topic but about your prior post.
I do frozen bagged breasts because I usually bread them anyway. They're a heck of a lot cheaper. Saute with onions and mushrooms followed by a broth reduction.
Good times.
Cheers.
(Yes, I cook at our house and you're right about the kids.)
Via Michele
I had people in for lunch today, and I served soup (homemade white bean soup), tarragon chicken salad on Italian boule, cantaloupe, cherries and blueberries, and icecream for dessert. I also made fresh limeade for the first time - and it didn't have enough sugar in it! (ouch). The sinple foods are the best, aren't they? Michele sent me. Wouldn't we like to have her come for lunch?
kenju: now I'm the one who is going to be inviting myself over for food -- that menu sounds delightful, delicious, delovely!
Have you ever seen "Chef at Home" on the food network? He made home made ginger ale: took a simple sugar syrup, poured it over ice with a ton of finely grated frozen ginger, good squeeze of lime, and seltzer. Your limeade made me think of it.
And of course, we'd love Michele to come for lunch... but would we live up to the task?
N.
One of the things that I learned when the children were small was how to go to sleep immediately, whenever I had the chance. I can still sit down and sleep deeply for 5 minutes. And if you sit me in front of a Disney film I have only got to see that castle and I am away!
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