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Days ago I invited someone to dinner by phone message and took out some chicken and pastry dough with the assumption I'd hear back one way or the other. No response. (I'm so disillusioned with males right now.) So tonight I've been cooking up a storm to deal with the plethora of defrosted poultry I find myself with. Unfortunately this comes at the same time as the humidity from the downpour that is making my house feel the hottest it's felt in the last year.

I'd planned to trial a new chicken pot pie recipe with some pastry dough I made a few months ago. (I'd been holding out using it all in anticipation of pie season.) With the clear (silent) sign that I am no longer friends with this person, I now have a few servings of the slightly overseasoned pot pie (I never manage to overseason anything, so I'm not sure how this happened. It's still pretty tasty, though) to last me into next week.

I've also been meaning to make a Jamie Oliver chicken-in-milk recipe that sounded pretty awesome. I lacked a chicken with bones, so fudged the process and hoped for the best. (Actually, I accidentally threw in the rosemary that was meant for another recipe in my haste to season. Oops.) It actually tastes quite nice, almost coconut milk-y, which is surprising and unexpected. It will be better once it's soaked up more of the milk gravy that smells so good. It's a good thing I love leftovers.

Right now I'm waiting for the rosemary lemon loaf to finish baking. Really it was supposed to be a rosemary loaf, but I thought the lemon zest would taste lovely with the rosemary. It's very puffy and cracky in the oven right now, and the smell is nice. I'm somewhat dubious it will work out because it's a Euro recipe and I lack a kitchen scale; my conversions are probably off since various sites gave various conversions, none the same. If ever I get a job it will be one of the first things I buy. (Also on the list is some sort of mixer for bread dough and getting my serger serviced.)

I think I would have been an excellent 1950s homemaker. I just lack the foundation garments to make the dresses look amazing.