When I have my own kitchen ....

I shall make chicken soup stock and store it in the freezer.

Then I will cook these .....


sweet and spicy mushroom stir fry

White bean kale soup


Caramelized onion tart with gorgonzola and brie

yose nabe with ginger chicken balls


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My own kitchen again! In just a couple more months :)

Hugs self in happiness.

A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER. by John Donne

I.
WILT Thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which was my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin, through which I run,
And do run still, though still I do deplore?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,
For I have more.

II.
Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I have won
Others to sin, and made my sin their door?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun
A year or two, but wallowed in a score?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,
For I have more.

III.
I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore ;
But swear by Thyself, that at my death Thy Son
Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore ;
And having done that, Thou hast done ;
I fear no more.

Renewal by Toh Hsien Min

In seven years' time there will be
Not one cell in my body that will hold
The faintest, fleeting, first-hand memory
Of you. As the surviving cells grow old
And die, so will you cease to live in me.
Your worm should vanish from my broken pith.
And yet I fear that I shall not be free,
That you will turn from history to myth.
It will pass on from cell to newborn cell:
That golden age, when everything was good.
The streets were paved with oxygen, the food
Was plentiful and birdsong graced the air.
New cells will sculpt the myth: Never so well!
Never so well! Would that we were there!


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So I was talking to Mr Grey -

"So is it really true that all the cells in the human body renew themselves after 7 years?"

Mr Grey - who has a degree in biology) - "Actually, no."

:(

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Also it reminded me of this.

spaces

From here.

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Amazing room. Wish I had the eye for architecture and design - really appreciate a well designed space.

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room update

Thanks to Mr Grey's strenuous efforts with the vacuum cleaner, the room is actually much much better.

But it's still horrendously cluttered and I still have too much stuff so the weekend before CNY is probably going to be spent decluttering SOME MORE.

But... it won't be for long ~hugs self in excitement~