Went out early this morning to do the second layer of finishing on the kitchen sink cabinet.

Then most of the day went to more food preservations. More peppers were roasted (~3.5kg) and then cooking. Andreea’s intentions were to make our first Zakuska (a generic Romanian name for a diverse range of cooked vegetable mash like things … really tasty … and a substitute for vegetables during the cold winter months) – which we have are. A large pot is on the stove in its last cooking stage and the jars are outside in the rocket stove. Soon we will bring the jars in, sterilize them in the over, fill them and cook them some more … then the day will be over.

But I also suggested we start making apple compote … to which Andreea agreed … but later we realized we took on too much … didn’t have enough large pots … etc. But we did make two  jars which came out really tasty … the leftovers are awaiting us after dinner. The compote project will be resumed … hopefully tomorrow.

… and in the midst of it all I did some light sanding and polishing of the kitchen cabinet … the sink _and faucet are installed and the cabinet is now functional … looks great. It doesn’t have doors for now … we’ll see what to do about that later. It also doesn’t have a back … I’ll take care of that once we finish the plumbing.

Andreea is calling me … time to bring the jars in and bring this day one step closer to a close.