[recipe] Homemade creamed corn

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700g corn kernels drained if canned
1 small onion diced
45g / 3 tbsp butter
30g / 2 tbsp flour
8g / 2 tsp sugar
180ml / 0.75 cup heavy cream
300ml / 1.25 cup milk
salt & pepper to taste
2 sprigs fresh thyme or 1/8 teaspoon dried

Combine onion and butter and cook over medium heat until the onion is translucent.
Add flour, salt and pepper. Cook 2-3 minutes while stirring. Add corn and mix well.
Add in milk, cream, sugar and thyme. Stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil and thickens. Allow to boil 1 minute while stirring.
Remove 1 cup of the corn mixture and blend with a hand mixer until smooth. Stir back into the creamed corn.
Taste and season with salt and pepper.

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I can’t even anymore

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So. The last round of indicative votes have all been rejected. Again. It’s like trying to reason with a kid in a full toddler meltdown. What do you want? I don’t know. Do you want this? No! How about this, then? No! What about this one? NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Guardian flowcharts about what *might* happen are getting more and more like the Who the fuck knows picture I posted a few days ago, with even more what-if lines of batshit craziness.

I care deeply about what’s going to happen, and even I am getting Brexit fatigue.

So, fasten your seatbelt and grab a barf-bag, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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Best analysis I’ve seen for the current state of Brexit

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Ah, Brexit. The national shitshow. The Guardian does a very good job of covering it in a fairly and factually (if slightly left-skewing) way.

So, since last update, there have been the indicative votes. All 8 of them, none of which got enough traction.

Then there was MV3 – The Return of the Agreement. Which, as expected, didn’t fly. So What happens now? The Guardian provides a full list of options in this nice flowchart:

However, reading between the lines and extrapolating a bit, we get to the most accurate predictor I’ve seen so far:

In other words:

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My cat is an ass and a bully

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It’s a sad truth that you cannot, under any circumstances, leave food lying around because Tolstoy will eat it. This is a cat that once chewed through a plastic bag to eat a bagel. This is what happens when you’re babysitting a large, vicious (not) Boxer. She gets her food bowl owned by an asshole cat and just stares on, wondering WTF is happening.

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When the boy is away

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The grown-ups can have some quality adult time.

Ben was at scout camp this weekend so – after shopping – we were able to go into Lausanne and have a (small) beer, share a basket of sliders and proper chips at a pub before going to see Captain Marvel.

Today, we went to Apero World and shared a G&T and a really big plate of antipasti.

It’s encouraging to know that even post-surgery, we can still enjoy foodie things like this.

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Mind blown!

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Katy and I went to the outlet shops in Aubonne with a mission to get me a new belt. I was super bummed when I was in the Levis shop, because their biggest belt was way too small, and the biggest jeans they had in store were 38s – and I’m not there yet. We looked in a couple of other shops, and the results were depressingly similar. Swiss shops tend to be sized for stick figure people. We tried one last shop, and it well made up for the previous disappointment.

The sales assistant in the Wrangler shop was super nice. First off, they did have bigger sized jeans. I first tried some 48s, but had to go progressively smaller and smaller to get the perfect fit, with ever increasing incredulity at each step. I think the lady was actually happy for me, because she got really into it as well and was really positive at the fitting results.

I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. My jean size went from 48+ inches to 42. Now granted the “before” jeans had always been baggy in the leg but I needed them for the waist. I now have fitting (and fitted) jeans.

Still working on the belt though, but that’s going to come in time – and I’ve punched the 3rd hole in my current belt.

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Constitutional chaos

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  • The Commons Speaker, John Bercow, has said the government cannot bring the meaningful vote back to parliament again unless there has been substantial change to the Brexit deal. Number 10 did not immediately set out how it planned to proceed, saying his statement requires “proper consideration”.
  • Bercow suggested the government could get round the problem by starting a new session of parliament. But he said it would be an unusual move and was not aware of whether or not ministers had such plans.
  • Nicola Sturgeon complained to Theresa May about suggestions the prime minister will allow the Norther Irish DUP a seat in any Brexit trade talks. For months, May has refused to give Scotland a direct role.
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