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One of those days

I’ve been working from home for a week now and I haven’t crossed a single thing off the list of “things I’ll be able to get done when I don’t have to go to school”.  When I get into a routine I’ll have time to write some dissection guides and run some workshops, in the meantime the phone rings and I can answer it, the email doesn’t pile up all day and keep me up until all hours of the night and I can pick up and deliver all over town at a reasonable time of the day.

Today, for the first time, I even stopped for lunch.  It was 3pm and the phone rang in the middle of it, but at least I sat down and ate something between breakfast and cheese-and-bic.

This afternoon I set out to pack an order for tomorrow, take the dog for a walk and be able to hang out a load of washing before sunset.  Then, since I was in the shed anyway, I thought, “I’ll just cryovac that pluck in the fridge”.

So I did.  And this is what happened:

cryovac machine full of blood
Never put off until tomorrow what you can make an awful mess of today - cryovac machine full of pluck juice. Yuck.

The pluck expelled at least a cup of blood, lung goop and general grossness into the machine and all over the baseboards inside it.  Between them, around them, under them – everywhere.  Ugh.

If anyone from the abattoir is reading this, then this is the reason I complain when the plucks are ‘too big’.  If anyone from the cryo rental company is reading this, don’t worry.  I’ve cleaned it, disinfected it, dried it out and turned it off.

Ah, well.  Order packed, cryovac cleaned from top to toe, dog walked to the bottom of the hill and back, washing still in the machine and it’s after dark.  Cheese tastes better when it’s had a bit of time out of the fridge anyway.

Miss Vivi

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Freaky fashion: Zombie pinup necklace

zombie pinup necklace from Pussy's Bowtique
Zombie Pinup necklace - $10 from Pussy's Bowtique

Check out the gore-geous girl who appeared on my doorstep last week.  She’s got brains ;-), she’s got killer curves and she’s got blood red heels to match her hair.

She’s the brainchild of Pussy’s Bowtique and you can get yourself one via the Facebook page or at Pussy’s madeit store.  If she’s a bit rich for your taste you might prefer one of her more demure sisters or you can get accessories custom made to match your favourite outfit.

the object to your left is now your weapon of choice in the upcoming zombie apocolypse.  What is it?

Miss Vivi

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Bring home the bacon: Cauliflower and Bacon Soup

bacon stock cubes
Cubism - bacon style

At last, a reason to link to Not Quite Nigella!

Not Quite Nigella is part of my Secret Blog Business.  Late at night, while Mr Vivi is getting ready to go to bed and I am waiting for him to get out of the bathroom, I sit and pretend to be shutting down my computer.  What I’m really doing is catching up on my blog feeds and Not Quite Nigella has risen in the ranks to be one of the first folders I open to read.

Tonight, in honour of Australian Bacon Week (have you heard it’s Bacon Week?) I am making an original Not Quite Nigella recipe for dinner and writing about it as an excuse to spread the word about the fabulous NQN blog.  She’s funny, she’s adventurous and she takes much better photographs than I do.

Tonight for dinner it’s NQN Cauliflower and Bacon Soup.  Super easy to make and smells fantastic on the stove.  I used a bacon stock cube and a chicken stock cube to make the stock, added some fresh nutmeg to the pot and some onion to the crumble topping.  I also didn’t bother to blend it in the food processor because I don’t mind chunky soup and I didn’t want to do the extra washing up.

We’ll be having it with a glass of Squealing Pig sauvignon blanc.

Have you got a good bacon recipe, Vivsters?

Miss Vivi