Off the Cliff

Yesterday was jacket weather, first since early June. Today is a tad warmer because sun, but I stayed in anyway because I was doing a laundry in the late morning (having woken finally at 11), reading a mystery in the afternoon (A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia), and cooking up chicken breasts and veg in the evening. Cool enough to have the oven on = make the most of it.  Hope to roast the remaining carrots, sweet potato,  and second hand mushrooms tomorrow before we return to late August temps by week's end.  Had a lemon in the fridge that I thought to use with the chicken but it was petrified when I went to slice it. Chucked it in the roasting pan anyway for whatever good it would do, but an hour later when I checked on the chicken (my oven is very slow) it had cooked enough that I was able to stab it with a knife and release the warm juice within. So yay for that.

That trick about separating bananas to keep them from ripening too fast works very well, but not when you buy green bananas. Which will stay green and hard as a rock for a week if separated. Wait till there's at least a little yellow there.