… use for my air fryer this evening.
While I was fumbling around in the freezer looking for those Chinese whatsits I came across a slice of apple pie that had been in there since the dawn of time, well and truly frozen.
The problem with frozen pie is that when it defrosts, whether in the microwave or in the open air, it goes all wet and soggy. Consequently, I decided to have a little go with the air fryer.
And so five minutes later I had a nice warm slice of crispy defrosted apple pie that was delicious with some of the soya cream that I had left over from the curry yesterday.
That was something good to know and I’ll remember that for the future. Defrosted vegan pie done in the air fryer at the end of cooking a batch of roast potatoes should make a wonderful meal. I’ll have to make a pie now, if only I had some room in the freezer.
If there’s one slice of apple pie in the freezer there might be another, and I’m cooking sausage and chips for tea tomorrow night. That will involve the air fryer so I’ll have another rummage around and see what I can find.
Once more, I had a better night in bed. I was in bed at an appropriate time and when the alarm went off at 07:30 I found myself in the middle of dictating a dream.
When the second alarm went off I was already up and about (well, sort of) and went for the medication. Following that, I checked my mails and messages.
Next stop was to check the dictaphone to see what had happened during the night. I was in a car. There was a car in front of me stopped at some roadworks so I stopped. There was a towbar nearby with a trailer attached. I thought that it belonged to this car so I went to unhook it. While I was doing that I damaged the rear end of the car. The driver was very unhappy. I had to wait there while he sorted himself out and then we went to fill in the form about the damage. I pretended that it was a road accident but I knew that I was at fault. He was humming a tune and I said that I recognised it. He said “yes it sounds like that group ..” and mentioned a couple of songs that they did. I said “ahh, that’s Budgie. They come from your neck of the woods”. We started to talk about the Newton Lane and Hoole Lane area of the town where I used to live back in the early 1970s. All a quite friendly basis although I’d just wrecked the rear end of his car.
And later on I was in a town having to seek therapy. This girl was talking to me in the centre of town. She sent me off for a walk around. I had to talk out loud about what was going through my mind and why I was doing what I was doing etc. I set off for a walk and went around town talking like this but I noticed that she was nowhere to be seen. I thought to myself that I’d go back to where I started. When I returned she was there. She hadn’t moved. She repeated a few of the things that I’d said and added “you need psychiatric therapy, don’t you? Would you like some?”. I replied “yes OK”. She said “go and do this exercise again. Go to these places”. Off I set and she still didn’t come with me. I was walking around and went into a shop. I ended up buying an enormous sheet of hardboard. I thought “this is silly because I haven’t finished what I was supposed to be doing yet and I now have to walk around with this huge sheet of hardboard”. Someone saw me struggling around the shop with it and came to help me fold it but that still didn’t solve the problem. In the shop I’d somehow ended up downstairs in the basement. There was a way out around the back. I could see more shops. I thought “the girl still hasn’t come with me and doesn’t know what I’m doing. I could nip out at the back here and go to visit these shops that she hasn’t said anything about and see what happens then”.
That wasn’t all that happened during the night but you don’t really want to know about the rest of it, especially if you are eating a meal right now.
For the rest of the day I haven’t done all that much. I finished off the notes from the radio programme that I’d been doing yesterday, and then I paired off the music for the last one in the pipeline.
Tomorrow I’ll write out the notes for that and later at night I’ll dictate them. I can’t dictate them during the day because there’s too much noise in the street. That’s one of the reasons why I’m up and about at 06:00 on a Monday morning before everyone else is up and about.
My tea tonight was delicious. Apart from the apple pie, I had rice and veg with those Chinese pastry things that were in the fridge. As I mentioned yesterday, once the rice had been cooked I fried it in a mixture of lemon grass, vegan butter and olive oil, along with a dollop of soy sauce.
And I’ll have that meal again because it was delicious. In fact, thinking on, next time I have a vegan burger that isn’t tomato based, I’ll go for fried rice again but with some cumin and coriander instead of the lemon grass. That should be really nice, I reckon.
Rosemary rang up later on and we had another one of our marathon chats. We had plenty of news for each other but nothing of earth-shattering importance. Just basically exchanging ideas and plans.
So the plans that I’m going to exchange is that apart from the physiotherapist I’ll just be doing that radio stuff tomorrow ready for the weekend. I might have a sort-out of the freezer too to see what I can eat in the near future in order to make more space. I’m still not sure what there is in there.
It won’t do any harm to empty it out a little though. If I’m going to be moving, I don’t want to take too much with me.
