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Birthday celebrations. I’m feeling thoroughly birthdayed!
I'm feeling thoroughly birthdayed today. It was my birthday this week, oh how those years whizz by! Mike bought me a magnificent double stemmed orchid, and a lovely soppy card. I seem to have success getting orchids to reflower, so I have quite a collection now. On my...
Walnut ‘Nutella’ and wheat bisks bites. These are so good they’re dangerous!
Having tried faux Nutella with hazelnuts and butter, I wanted to try another version with oil. Having run out of hazelnuts, I used walnuts. So I nipped into the kitchen and this was rustled up in just a few minutes. Home Made Walnut Nutella Priced at Asda, July 2017...
Do you know what Massive Online Open Courses, or MOOCS are?
Have you ever heard of Massive Online Open Courses, or MOOCS as they are shortened too? They have been around quite a while, but I’ve never actually investigated any. Never had time! The concept The concept is that an expert decides to write a course about something,...
30+ different flavours for baked bean hummus / paté, a LCHF recipe, or fat free!
Use a tin of the cheapest baked beans you can find as your base, or chick peas as per usual hummus, or any other beans or indeed lentils. All will make their own contribution. Baked bean paté is smoother than a chick pea hummus, and has a neutral flavour, like chick peas do, ripe for loading in aromatics, spices, herbs and umami.
A charity shop haul
Went for my regular coffee meeting this morning and had a little look at a couple of the many charity shops afterwards. The first one had an utterly gorgeous wicker sofa, complete with cushion over the whole seat. Would have been wonderful in the garden. But it would...
This months cookery group recipes, including some invented ones
Had the U3A cookery group here yesterday. As usual, we fitted in lots of different recipes in our two hours. As well as a couple of made up things, I wanted to try some recipes from a new book. I saw a couple of recipes from Izy Hozzack in the paper and liked the look...
Using up bits and pieces of fruit to make a lovely fresh Summer Berry jam
Sometimes, I get a bit of this and a bit of that fruit wise. There are lots of things it can be used for. This time, I used it as a Summer Berry Jam
Millions of Cusheen toilet rolls. What are they like compared to others?
Groupon do Cusheen toilet rolls sometimes – is it worth getting the offer?
A day out to see Adele at Wembley, what an experience!
I'm sitting on my sofa, back after a couple of days away. Back before Christmas, I noticed somewhere or other that Adele tickets would be on sale for Wembley. Well, I'm a bit of a fan, so I decided to see if I could get any. I was on that site on the dot of 10am when...
A seasonal change over of my silk flower display
I updated my silk flower arrangement today, to be used for the next three months. This is what it looked like before. A base foliage display, fixed in resin in the vase, white Ranunculus and three different shades of Lilac. Stripped out the Lilac and put them away...
The easiest sundried tomatoes in olive oil – ever! And use them in instant tomato pan fried focaccia
A couple of very quick things for you today. Super simple. Do you remember I bought some big bags of wonderful sun dried tomatoes from Healthy Supplies. They taste wonderfully fresh and tangy, the best I’ve had. If you can afford the initial outlay, they are a great...
A No Bake, No Gelatin Cheesecake, with salted caramel, fruit topping and lots of other variations
If you like salted caramel, you’ll love this! A crispy crushed biscuit base, velvety cheesecake, topped with sticky salted caramel – yum!