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Old phones, pretty flowers and glorious sunsets
I had an interesting and rather nice day yesterday. First of all, I went up the road to Burwash. On our local Freecycle group, a chap had offered an old Nokia, the type that makes telephone calls and pretty much that’s it. Just the type of phone that my Mum wanted. So...
Green Thai Kidney Bean Curry, 59p
We had an oldie but goodie for tea this evening. Thai green curry. I used a mix of carrots, a red and green pepper, Savoy cabbage, tomatoes and an onion. The protein part was paneer, and we had it with brown basmati. I tried costing it, but it came out to 98p, and...
Elderflowers and cardigans
I tried to reblog Jen Gales post today about elderflowers, but it wouldn't go. So here is the link. Lots of lovely ideas to use them, and in season right now. Once you have located your elder flowers, go back again in the autumn when the remaining flowers have become...
Taking Stock a la Jen Gale
Jen Gale over on MakeDoAndMend posted this intriguing list today on taking stock. So I thought I would join in and add my two pennorth. This is what I am currently doing, using Jens Taking Stock list Making : wedding invitations for DD2, a Year Book for a special WI...
Fishy Tortilla, 19p plus salady bits
Tried a wholemeal flour tortilla today at lunchtime, just to see what it would be like, and it was scrummy I used the same ingredients as before, but made 2 larger tortilla, rather than 4 smaller ones. Needed my biggest pans to do it, and they were lapped up the sides...
Cherry tree shrouds and un-crusty bread
We finally had some sunshine this afternoon, so I covered over the two cherry trees in the front garden with a shroud of Enviromesh to keep the blackbirds from pinching the cherries when they ripen. They are just beginning to blush pink now. A squirrel is getting into...
Leftover chicken and vegetable crumble
Delicious, creamy and flavoursome. You could make any tasty mix and pop a crumble over it, and in the process, either stretch out a few shreds of meat, or use up some assorted vegetables and beans.
A skip of rubble
Oops, thought I had posted this last night! We’ve got a skip outside at the moment, and today we have been busy tipping stuff into it. From early this morning DP and myself have been shovelling spoil from the foundations etc into a wheelbarrow and pushing it round the...
M&S free foodie goodies and Quidco
Had to go to Tunbridge Wells today and ended up walking from one end of the town to the other, had sore feet by the end. I use an M&S credit card for absolutely everything, to collect the points, making sure I pay it off in full every month. Then every now and...
Spring green breakfast pancakes and really good tortillas
Couple of successful experiments today. First up were these bubble and squeak pancakes this morning. I had made a curry a few days previously, including a side dish of some spring greens swooshed up with a few spices, tomato, garlic and ginger. They were lovely by the...
Robin Bobbin moves out, DAC and tortilla
Well, we are robin-less! Yesterday, they were there in the morning, busily flying to and fro, to and fro, to and fro. In the afternoon, I mentioned that I hadn’t seen them for an hour or so, and DP said, no, he hadn’t either. And that was it. They cleared off without...
A mountainous larder, raspberries, pasta and crispy fish burger
Yet another pancake variation this morning. After the WI lunch yesterday, I had some raspberries left over. So this morning, I used self raising flour as usual, but instead of water, I used raspberries. They had been frozen, so were very juicy, and I had added a good...