It's Friday !

Woo-hoo !

So, after a week of colleagues being off sick (meaning mucho work for those of us who remained standing); a week of fighting their bug off myself (that elderberry syrup I made the other day rocks), and the general time-of-year overwhelmingness of it all....

....I am just so pleased and happy it is Friday at last and I get a couple of days where I at least do not have to go to work, even if the rest of my life is unlikely to step it down a notch just because it's the weekend.

You never know though :)

But hey, I did clean my windows this week, and now we can see through them, which is definitely a bonus when it comes to windows.  I made and ate lunchtime bean salads

 

 

                             We sparkled sparklers and ate jackets and bangers on Bonfire Night

 

 

 

And I gutted Jack and got another 1.8 kg of pumpkin to play with

 

 

 

We ate Tarka Dal with our cous cous (only 20 packets left, wey-hey !)

 

Half a cup of red lentils

3 cups of water

1 flat tsp if salt

 

Bung it all into a pot, bring to a boil, then simmer for 20-30 min until you are left with a thick soup.

 

1 onion

3 cloves of garlic

1/4 tsp turmeric

1 tsp garam masala

1/2 tsp chili powder (or to taste)

Oil or ghee, for frying

 

Dice and fry the onion; add crushed garlic and the spices, give it a good stir.  Add to the lentils.

 

As ever, it doesn't look pretty.....

 

But it tastes like heaven.

 

 

And then there was the free stuff....

 

 

                                                        .... and the heavily discounted stuff.

 

 

And finally, there was a copy of Terry Pratchett's   Raising Steam.  I might be behind on pretty much everything..... But I am keeping up with my reading.  Some things are just too important.