CuppaTea

Sadly, I expect to be defeated by my own challenge. And yet it was so much fun designing it, and contemplating it, that I plan to continue with it, even though the 2020 deadline looms far too close. When I drafted a list of recipes I might try for this challenge, I expected to have a cake for this category - specifically Black Forest Cake. Just, yum! But now that I am living on my own I am doing much more savoury cooking because people need to eat every day, apparently. ;) And so there are a few recipes, a few dishes, which I have made several times because they are familiar and/or simple enough to throw together after a day at work. My Mum's potato quiche recipe is a favourite of mine. I associate it with Thursday nights when my sisters and I had netball training, because it was something Mum could cook during the day to have ready. This could be a false association, a false memory, but that is where it fits in my mind. And since I have only myself to please or displease

Blue is my favourite colour. It has been for as long as I can remember. And purple and green have come in second, always. And yet, this year is the colour green. I have moved interstate when I had expected to be moving overseas. My new home has a garden, and it baffles me that things grow without any help or hindrance from me. Because someone else (or several other people) have established the garden in previous years, plants occasionally burst forth and I have no idea what they are until someone else recognises a photo I show them. Usually after mystery plants have started flowering. The garden at the beginning of May, before it rained for a few weeks. Mystery plants emerging... Turned out to be these bluebells! I had to have someone come and tell me which green things were weeds and which were garden plants. And then it rained and rained and everything grew before I could get the weeds out and a swath of proper garden plants burst up and I could no longer even se