Had my diabetes check yesterday. My sugar was up a little again, but I lost a kilo and a half, so the specialist is pretty sure that the sugar will go down again by next time, and it's probably just the stress of looking for and starting a new job that has been affecting it so much. It should even out now. We hope.
I had a High Tea on Sunday to say goodbye to two coworkers who left. It was the most disappointing high tea I have ever experienced. Usually there's SOMETHING I can eat besides the really sweet stuff. I'm pretty picky with things like sandwiches. I don't like things like egg salad, potato salad, tuna salad, and I don't like fish. High Teas tend to have a lot of salad sandwiches with those things in them....cucumber sandwiches, salmon, tuna, egg salad, so I am not a fan of high tea anyway, and I went to breakfast with A to make sure I wouldn't starve when I went to the high tea, but the only thing I got was a cup of tomato soup and 6 bites of dessert stuff. Usually there will be something like Quiche, or scones, or a tartlett, a fancy grilled cheese, etc. Not a thing.
Chocolate cake pop, brownie, cinnamon tortilla type thing, red velvet cookie with which chocolate, butter cake, and he called the other thing a blondie, but that was NOT a blondie....it was more like millionaires shortbread. These were all just bite-sized treats, so one of each all put together is like one dessert. They were decent, but for the most part, I can make better at home.
So there was a focaccia with hummus (which I don't like) and avocado, a sandwhich with ham, cheese, tomato, and boiled egg...the only thing I would eat on that would be the ham, and only if it hadn't fraternized with the tomato or egg, another thing with ham and tomato and some sort of spread, a tortilla wrap with egg salad and cucumber, and something with salmon and tuna. So there wasn't a thing that I could eat. I've been to high teas before and I can always manage to find something that doesn't have a cold sauce/spread/condiments, unmelted cheese, tomato, cucumber, fish, or salads. They WERE really good about the fact that I don't drink tea and they happily gave me a pepsi max instead. That's not always the case. I once had a high tea where they acted like it was the BIGGEST inconvenience to have to pour me a glass of orange juice instead, even though they served OJ on their regular menu. And then they charged me like 7 euros for that tiny glass of OJ. The one on Sunday actually served us all a glass of OJ alongside our tea.
I got home and heated up some leftover brussels sprouts from the night before. E and I were talking about what we would make if we did a high tea for our friends. We decided on Quiche (which she won't eat), and Melted Brie on toast with zuchinni or appel and honey, maybe some scones, some upside-down apple or pear pastries, probably brownies, and some mini bagettes with rosted vegetables, and some with sauteed mushrooms and cream cheese. And some kind of soup...probably mushroom bisque or butternut squash, depending on people's food tastes, because a lot of people don't like mushrooms, even though we LOVE them. And we'd probably make some lemon tartlets, and maybe some poppyseed bread or zucchini bread.
Anyway, it's always fun to think about. We enjoy baking together and just working in the kitchen with Spotify on so we can belt along to whatever soundtrack or playlist we're in the mood for. So this is just for fun, not an actual plan.
Totally off topic:
The zoo we went to last week announced the birth of a baby Giraffe like 2 days after we were there, but then yesterday they announced that he/she already passed away. So sad. I was really looking forward to going to the zoo again as soon as they were out of isolation, but I guess that's not going to happen.
