Batching

For the next three weeks my entire immediate family will be enjoying sunny Europe and all that the continent entails. I shall remain in the suburbs of Sydney, in a four bedroom house, alone. So far I've survived two whole days without family and it's been kinda weird. The prospect of the car coming up the drive and mum and dad hopping out with the shopping is still very real; but then so is the fact that I have to cook all meals, clean all surfaces and wash all clothes for myself.

I have been inviting people over to keep me company, and so far that's been good. Still I'm the only one sleeping here and it just feels odd to go to bed with no one else in the house (which leads to me staying up later than I should).

For this first post about my (very) single life I would like to focus on the cooking. I have survived 3 main meals in the following fashion:
Last night I invited my second-cousin over for dinner. The meal was a tomato rice dish. Recepie as follows.

Melt (a lot of) butter in frying pan. Chop up an onion and throw it in with a bit of garlic. Fry up some strips of bacon too. Get a tin of peeled tomatos and whack that in too. Add some milk/cream and some red wine (white wine works just as well). Cook it all up in the pan.

While that's going on cook some rice. Then mix the rice into the pan with the sauce. et volia!

I have a playstation 2 here thanks to my friend alex, but I get bored of computer games...

Pretty much this is an ad. If you wanna move in for 3 weeks you can. It's a big empty house and needs to be filled with love.