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Baking Until I Drop

Tuna Croquettes, originally uploaded by Lilandra.

The problem with delaying posts is I take no notes and forget…so if I don’t take any pictures, there is almost no hope.

Monday 22 September, Ramadan 21
suhur: unknown

iftar: Since I wasn’t fasting, I made tuna croquettes from this recipe. I doubled the recipe and used two cans of tuna (6oz each). I also used low fat milk (that’s what I had).

Aunty from next door dropped sahina.

dinner: leftovers from the weekend iftars.

Tuesday 23 September, Ramadan 22
Suhur: can’t recall, maybe bread and butter unless that was wednesday

iftar: leftover sahina and tuna croquettes

dinner: leftovers from iftars

Our old fridge finally was given up on Saturday.
When mom bought a new fridge and stove some years aback…instead of disposing of the old ones, she moved them into the back (where the washing machine and dryer are) and thus caused one of the greatest contentions/controversies in our family. A second kitchen. Outside.

Let it be stated right here, we understand her cooking her roti on the back on a ring stove (because the inside stove would get too messy…hmm and cuz it doesn’t have as much power…hmm) or even frying…heat outside…

You know what it’s like to be cooking (especially late at night) and realize you don’t have an ingredient because it’s stored in the back fridge??? Like apple cider vinegar? corn meal? minced garlic? I could go on…my sisters would probably be better. You know what that’s like when you don’t bring your hijab downstairs at midnight…because really why would you need your hijab at midnight, locked inside your house?

Everything was stored in that fridge.
Noodles galore.
Potatoes.
Granted I stored my flour in it and breads in the process of being made, but it was there. It annoyed me too.

We finally convinced mom to give it up (hard because I hate the inside fridge).
We were looking forward to a lower electricity bill and de-cluttering.
Three and a half people don’t need two fridges.

And the door fell off.

Now the deep freeze is still in the back … we can deal with that.

What this means is that the tiny fridge inside is packed. The freezer is packed. And I don’t really have fridge space to retard my bread dough à la Peter Reinhart.

The fridge is a french door side-by-side fridge, one side is freezer (9″ wide) and the other fridge (13″ wide). I’m not saying more. Really. But when I can’t fit my huge cookie tray in it…I wish it was a regular old style fridge. *sigh*
Also, we have one shelf for water and other drinks.
One shelf for butter, eggs, jam etc.
One shelf for tahini, pickles, milo, sweets and random stuff.
And one shelf for food.
We can’t store lots of leftovers.
So I said new rule. No cooking unless there are no leftovers. Maybe we can sometimes cook when it’s half filled. But there must be room to store stuff before we cook.

So that’ll solve two problems.
What’s the other problem?
Mom insisting on cooking every day because daddy will want hot food.
*groans*