Washday Blues..

No not really..who has washday blues these days. It is all easy nowadays with washing machines and tumble driers. My mum didn't have any of these things. She had to manage with a single tub machine, an old Hoover one, with a mangle on the top, and a spin drier that used to move across the kitchen floor when it was used. The funny thing is when VT and I were married we carried on using the single tub machine for long enough, till I got mad one day and kicked it, and it stopped. Then we bought our first automatic one.Drying the clothes was a real problem, can well remember them draped all over the middle room where the fire is, usually over a clothes maiden.
The other night I had one of those nights when everything happened. First I put some mushrooms on a really low heat to fry in frylight, then promptly forgot them and went to watch something on TV. Of course they burnt. Then I cooked the tea, took the glass lid off a pan and put it on the back of the gas stove. Of course the burner was on very low, and there was a burning smell. The handle of the pan lid had burned and melted! So VT put it into the washing up bowl full of water, where it promptly shattered intop a thousand pieces.. So, that's the end of a good pan lid. Have to get another now from somewhere. Just another day in Paradise!
Tonight we are having:
Chinese.. Spring Rolls,
Egg fried rice..4oz with peas and spring onions.
Stir fry vegetables, with mushrooms and pepper.
Sauce of some sort, depends what VT puts his hands on.

Last nights Sloppy Joes were very good, really tasty. I used Vegemince with a small chopped onion, and a really good dollop of tomato ketchup. About 1/2 a cup. Some water to loosen the mix. VT had a diced pepper in his, and I had a diced tomato. Cooked till the mix was done and the sauce had been absorbed, and served on a toasted bun with a slice of cheese on top.
A good easy tasty recipe.