Today was yet another lovely day! I was up early and decided to strip my bed and wash my sheets today. I like to do this once a week to keep them clean and fresh! Of course, if I have a bit too much fun and make a mess then I do it more often as needed 😉 Once I aired out my room and headed downstairs, I put all of my sheets and pillowcases in the wash before going about making breakfast.
I have been wanting to practice my scrambled eggs, a classic breakfast staple. There are so many different little tips and tricks on how to make them more this way or that, so I am going to experiment a bit over the next few days. Today, I tried out adding a little bit of light cream to my eggs before mixing them and then slowly cooking them over low heat. They were super creamy and soft! I tend to like my eggs a little runny, so they were delicious. Once I cleaned up, I did general tidying like I usually do and then I set about taking inventory of the kitchen.
Tomorrow is grocery day, so i need to compile a list of what we need. This means I need to meal plan for the weekend. I don't cook dinner every day, but have been slowly taking on more evenings. Right now, I cook 3-4 nights a week. So, I wrote out my grocery list with a few recipes in mind.
Once that is done, I moved my sheets over to the dryer and went upstairs to get washed and dressed for the day. There was a thunderstorm that rolled through in the late morning that really packed a punch, so I went about setting out some candles just in case we lost power (we did, but only for about an hour). Once my sheets were done, I brought them upstairs and remade my bed.
At this point, I needed to get some work done so I focused on that for a couple of hours. Then, I went downstairs to do some baking. I decided to bake some bread. It takes about 2/2.5 hours to cook a simple French Artisan loaf, so I went with that. It always comes out super yummy! My dad likes to have some toast in the morning and I figured I could use some to make my sister a sandwich for lunch tomorrow since she has work during the day as a lifeguard. As I baked, during the lulls in the process (proofing, rising, and baking), I made a few phone calls, answered a few emails, and went over my to-do list to see what priorities for the day I had left. Once the bread was finished baking, I set it out to cool and cleared up any mess so that the kitchen would be clean for dinner. My sister really wanted sushi this evening (and homemade sushi is not yet in my repertoire) so we ordered from a local Japanese restaurant.
Finally this evening, I did some reading (the women in my family are all in a book club together so I am reading this months book, The Water Dancer). I let myself relax for a short while before getting washed up for bed and now here I am!!
Another lovely, and productive day! <3