The Survival Experiment - Day 1, Part Two.

Tristan is on dessert tonight so Lucy tells him to make his chocolate cake in the afternoon before she starts her meatballs.
He calls out to me to come and melt the butter for him. I remind him, he has to do it. He does drop the box of eggs while trying to put it away, which results in three broken eggs, now in a glass.

Those are Lucy's shortbread
in the background

When Lucy finds out, she says it is fine she will use them in her bacon and egg pie tomorrow night. As cake smells fill the kitchen Lucy wants to get the cake out and test it for doneness. But Tristan says, "I know what it looks like when it is cooked!" He gets it out when he thinks it looks done.
Once Tristan is finished, Lucy starts cooking meatballs from a recipe she found in one of our recipe books.

Everything is happening in the kitchen,
while the washing sits on the line as the sun goes down.

Once the meatballs are in the oven. The kids decide to go and get their washing, now sitting in the dark. Tristan brings it in and dumps it in the basket under the heat pump. "It's not dry. I am going to leave it here all night to finishing drying." Time for the observers to suggest perhaps hanging it on the rack.
Lucy serves her meatballs with spaghetti, following the instructions on the packet, though they also eat the spaghetti raw while they wait for the water to boil. She serves it quite al dente.

"Two hours!" She says. "I am not cooking meatballs again!" We have a wee taste of her meatballs and they have great flavour - lots of herbs.

Tristan's cake is superb. It is very soft and moist. He even lined the tin. It is not as chocolately as usual so I think he confused teaspoons and tablespoons. The icing ends up very runny so he serves it as a sauce on top of his cake for pudding. He added almond essence to the icing/sauce.

While Tristan is unable to finish his slice of cake for pudding, Lucy hangs up the washing on the rack.

All the while she says, "I am not staying up tonight. I have been working so hard. How do you guys do it all the time and working too?"

The kitchen is suffering, the floor has bits of herbs on it and the fridge door is sticky. 

At 8:45 they are laughing and loading the dishwasher. Lucy is moaning about being very tired. But she wants to make camomile tea for supper. She says she now understands why we don't go to bed when she does as there is still work to be done.

Finally 9:30pm they decide to go to bed but Tristan is going to bed in his clothes. How will this lack of sleep affect their efforts tomorrow will be interesting to see.

There is one thing we have helped them with - the childsafe lid of the dishwasher powder. This wasn't their fault and I am sure with their powers of destruction they could have got into it - but I would rather the container still be in one piece at the end of three days.