Thursdays

So I know that I said Tuesdays were the crazy day, but Thursdays are even crazier!  The problem is, we are producing so much milk right now and making so much cheese that there's nowhere to put it.  Greg is trying to make all these cheeses that require all these different moulds (it's funny, because cheese deals with both molds and moulds...moulds are the containers that the curds are ladled into), but there isn't enough space.  We're trying to make chévre and camembrie in the same day...it's so complicated that I can't really write it down without boring people to death...sorry if I already have.  What it comes down to is that today I washed moulds from 9AM-3PM (6 hours).  With a 15 minute break for lunch.  

So it's this absolutely insane day and it turns out that there's another tour!  It's a group of 40 older people from an assisted living place.  Greg was saying how when you get old, it's just like college again (he once worked in an assisted living home)...you're put in one place with people who are the same age as you and they have all these activities set up for you, field trips and classes and such.  Anyway, we're trying to wash all these moulds before we have to pour camembrie, but we have to give these old people a tour around the cheese house while we're doing it.  Story: Greg HATES flies...understandably, because they bring contamination into his perfectly clean cheese house.  So he is this master fly killer.  He can just catch them in his hand.  It's crazy.  And he's giving the tour, and the whole time he's talking his eyes are just following this fly around, and the fly lands right over this tiny old lady's head, and he stops talking and just suddenly slaps the wall over this woman's head and kills the fly.  She was scared to death.  Thankfully, this incident did not stop them from buying about 200 dollars worth of cheese and shirts.

After I was freed from the house of cheese, I gardened a little bit and made dinner.  Dinner tonight was a quinoa salad.

Rainbow Quinoa Salad

1/2 cup quinoa

1 cup vegetable broth (or water + salt)

Tomato (red)

Carrot (orange)

Yellow bell pepper (yellow)(duh)

Avocado (green)

Onion

Sunflower seeds (or any sort of seed/nut)

Balsamic Vinegar (or any acidic liquid)

Olive Oil (or any other oil)

Maple Syrup (optional, but yummy)

Combine quinoa and broth in pot, bring to boil, let simmer for 15 minutes/until liquid is absorbed.  Chop vegetables into bite sized pieces.  Mix balsamic vinegar and oil in a 1:3 ish ratio and add some maple syrup, if you like (I like).  Mix everything together, add sunflower seeds, and I added nutritional yeast because I put it on everything.  YAY

I didn't take any pictures today because I was so busy : (

Deal with it.