Day two of my “time off to get some more work done” was more of the same really, luckily all trains were on time or just about so I had no stress whatsoever on my long and sunny voyage to Flanders Today HQ in Groot-Bijgaarden. It takes me a little over two hours to get there so I’m really grateful I don’t have to do that on a daily basis but it did give me the opportunity to get a lot of reading done. I finally started our next book club book (cutting it short as usual) and I already got through the first 200 pages of The Echo Maker. Richard Powers’ novel is off to a promising start so I should be able to finish the following 400 pages in the next 4 days.
Another vacation resolution was to spend some more time in my kitchen, my favorite room of the house which has been severely neglected the past few weeks. I can honestly say that I haven’t done a lot of cooking lately and even less baking but this week I have already made a zesty lemon cake, a loaf of whole wheat bread, very tasty (if I do say so myself) vegetarian meatballs in a creamy tomato and basil sauce with celery and fluffy mashed potatoes, a gorgeous meat free lasagna with a fennel-saffron sauce and my rum raisin cupcakes are begging to be eaten as we speak. Maybe there’s still hope after all?
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