Baking by us (3), Himself goes up in the world and finally some precious crochet time❤

Do you ever get those moments, when having idly looked at a rather yummy recipe feel really inspired to do it?
Yes?
Do you ever, having been inspired, print the recipe out in a dash at work, stuff it in a convenient bag/pocket/drawer to retrieve at a more kitchen appropriate moment?
Yes?
Do you, then having been inspired, stuffed recipe away safely, got home and cast your eye over the baking the cupboard and decided that you have enough or nearly enough or similar or alternative items to do said baking?
Yes??
Do you then, having been inspired, printed the recipe, sort of confirmed ingredients then have to wait several days to the weekend to actually make said recipe
Yes? Yes??
Do you then find when the weekend actually arrives you have lost your cooking mojo but in a slip of concentration actually mention the words baking/weekend/new recipe to your children who  yell back at you...
YES!!

Oh... only me then - *sigh*

May I present to you............Baking by us (three) while Himself goes up in the world.

1. Windfalls, lightly cooked, chopped then tossed in cinnamon and sugar (thank you Eldest)

2. Pastry rolled and 30 mini pie bases cut ( Eldest)

3. Mini bases after chilling (Photo thanks to Youngest)

4. Pie base, with added apple and now topped with another disc and crimped (Youngest)

5. Pies - glazed with milk and sprinkled with sugar, ready for the oven (Photo thanks to Eldest)

6. Ready little pies, still steaming  from the oven (I'd tried holding one to photograph and burnt my fingers)

7. & 8. Cool enough (just) to eat and the last time you'll ever see them!!

Follow the link for the proper grown up recipe that - if I had read properly - I may not have done. Above  is our simplified-boys-and-mum-on-a-Saturday-afternoon-cooking version. The original look soo elegant and were probably made under ideal conditions - either way - ours tasted yummy❤❤, kept the boys very entertained and fed Himself - a win win situation :)

We've had a bit of a long standing niggling problem with our bathroom leaking when it rains - not every time it rains, just occasionally and when the east wind blows. Himself has been up several times and with this type of DIY, it can only be tested - when it rains.....

The repair some times lasts for months even years before it starts again.

Well, while we were away in Galloway - it rained and rained and RAINED at home - both outside the house and ..... inside the bathroom. Himself once again gritted his teeth but this time he decided to DO SOMETHING MAJOR..... no patching or re-tarring but A RE-ROOFING type mission was planned.

This entailed the purchase thereof HUGE ladders (something he's hankered after anyway so not a difficult task) it involved ripping off ENORMOUS chunks of roofing felt, TONNES of gravel (why on EARTH do you put gravel on a roof???) Years of layers of old tar and pitch which, despite being up there for ages, some of the tar was still sticky.....his trousers and hands are visual proof of the stickiness. Urgh.

With offers of many reviving cups of workman like tea, little apple pies and support from 2 boys and me, he ripped off the roof, re-pitched with thick stinky gloopy black tar from a bucket then lay down layer after layer of roofing felt.

And  did it pass the Rain-Test? On Sunday night - it hammered it down....but was it the right kind of rain? Well..... the bathroom didn't leak! So hopefully his hard weekend paid off - any way he's gone back to work for a rest!


Still surprised by the fact we all like ❤love❤ my blooming flower cushion, I wanted to try something else. Not as 'girly' a bit more edgy but still with ruffles and sporting different colours. I found my inspiration from Made in K-town. So, casting my mini-bunting aside (it is still in progress, I have just run out of cotton yarn) I have started this......

Not finished yet and still an experiment, I do *L*O*V*E the way it is going. I started with straight ruffly-wiggly diagonal lines then got bored and allowed my hook to take me where ever 'it' wanted and now I have a wonderful fracture line running right through it - causing all sorts of interesting movement.

I have a long way to go and it doesn't look anything as neat and as pretty as the original inspiration but I am still loving❤❤ the way it is developing. I will keep adding the stripes and accentuating the fracture line - watch this space!❤❤

Well, that is a small snippet of our weekend and as usual it has flown by and we are back to the beginning of a brand new week full on things to happen - bring it on!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Hope you all have a wonderful Monday :)❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Sowing and Growing, Cooking and Eating, Walking and Breathing

Growing and Sowing

I have to admit to a feeling optimistic delight every time I go into my glasshouse. Daily, no - hourly, the seedlings seem to grow, transforming the pots of dark soil into mounds of verdant micro jungles all jostling for space. Some of the larger seedlings have been pricked out and potted on and they need even more elbow room. Outside I've got a large cloche type cold frame covering my square foot garden where beans, garlic, black kale and spring onions grow on, it won't be long before I fill that too. 

Oh yes,  there's still the potatoes to plant (soil is a bit cold), the spinach and onions to go out, the parsley and leeks, the garlic chives and ....................hmmmm my garden isn't small but it is too small for my enthusiastic seed sowing! (And I've not even started to take into account all the ornamental seeds I've sown too)

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Cooking and Eating

Ages ago I made 'veggie Cornish pasties' which is a bit of an oxymoron and is a recipe that needs a name of it's own, but it was rather tasty and I promised to share the nuts and bolts of it (not to worry they are not ingredients!).

The original recipe came from here but I did my usual and fiddled with the recipe to make it our own.

1. I used onions, courgette, carrot, potatoes and mushrooms.
2. As per the instructions I chopped, sliced and diced.
3. The vegetables were cooked over a medium heat and
4. The grated cheese and stock was added.
5. I cheated and used ready made short crust pastry and instead of making Cornish-pasty rounds I made a single large pie. The veg mix is lovely and moist and the pastry collapsed last time so this time, I lined a dish (not necessary could just grease instead) and made a double crust pie.
6. So, a quick photo before it was guzzled, with home grown salad (first decent crop of this year!) chips as a concession to  Youngest and who proclaimed himself most-starving-one and garlic bread - discovered hiding in the freezer. Yum.

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Walking and Breathing

Youngest has been away for a week at an outdoor activity centre in the Lakes, so he has had less energy than his usual firecracker self and our regular weekend yomp seemed to fizzle away. By Sunday evening I was pacing the floor feeling quite out of sorts. I kinda threw a wobbler and insisted we went out for a walk as soon as we had finished eating. Strangely all my normal walking conspirators were reluctant, preferring to podge out.

 It took a fair bit of firm talking to, to get the boys (all 3) to move but once they did, their dour moods lifted and the walk took on a refreshing cleansing feel to it. 

The evening sunlight gave everything a warm golden glow and the sky was full of dramatic flame coloured cloud. There were lambs everywhere, frolicking in the gentle warmth.

It was like meditation, my breathing connected with my footsteps and my feet connecting with the earth - wonderful.

As usual, our weekend was over in a flash. 

Here's wishing you a magnificent Monday (in the words of my fav sis in law) and a wonderful week xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Old fashioned brownies or 'cheerio hips' as my Gran would say

For artteachergirl at More Powerful Beyond Measure: - the recipe I mentioned yesterday..........

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As I type this, Himself has snuck (yes in our house snuck is a word) I repeat - snuck into the kitchen for another piece of brownie. Last night after quite a long day at work, then an evening of shopping  (I live life in the fast lane.....not) I suddenly and inexplicably got an urge to bake. Not surprisingly Himself stepped aside and helpfully ushered me into the kitchen!


So, I now present to you a very nom nom recipe :-

Old fashioned brownies (16/52)

100gm / 3 1/2oz chopped nuts (or as I used - dry toasted sunflower seeds)
4 large eggs
300gm / 10oz caster sugar  (I must admit thinking as I weighed this out that, this was a lot of sugar, but the recipe was not sweet in any way)
140gm / 5oz  melted butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
140gm / 5oz  plain flour
75gm / 2 1/2oz cocoa powder


a baking tin - 20 x 25 cm / 8 x10 ", greased and preferably lined with baking paper


pre heat the oven to 170 deg C (325 deg F) gas mark 3

• Lightly toast the chopped nuts/sunflower seeds in an oven proof dish for about 10 minutes. take out and cool (do not at this point try to chuck a handful of volcanically hot sunflowers seeds into your mouth - I will not be responsible for your third degree burns as well as my own....despite the absolutely yumshishness of them once I got over the searing heat......)
• Don't turn off the oven. 
• Crack the eggs into a mixing bowl and whisk until frothy then while still whisking - add the sugar. Keep on whisking for about a minute or so then add the melted butter in a steady pour. 
• Whisk for another minute or so then finally add the vanilla extract
• Sift the flour and cocoa into the egg and sugar mix and stir with a wooden spoon
• When completely combined add the now cooled nuts/sunflower seeds and give a final stir.
• pour mix into a prepared tin and spread evenly.
• bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes until a skewer comes out just clean.
• remove from heat and allow to cool completely before taking out of the tin

It is at this point you have to arm yourself with a wooden spoon and a stern voice to keep any marauding brownie thieves from trying to steal pieces as you cut them. 

The recipe book does the usual thing about saying will keep for about 5 days but hey - fat chance!

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There are some updates on my Kyōyū kyōyū  blog - and it's all good news :)

Right ho, just enough time to

finish my brew as I do the final

tidy up just prior to setting off

to work....

Thanks ju24!!

Did I mention I was baking biscuits?

Must be getting old and befuddled, but I mentioned yesterday that I made biscuits then forgot the all important reporting about them! Silly me :)

Right ho,  I actually have two recipes to natter about and both are oat based (a firm favourite with us)

Recipe 14/52 - classic oat cookies

115gm (4 oz)  soft butter
140gm (5 oz) light brown sugar
1 large egg - lightly beaten
1 tablespoon mild
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
100gm (3 1/2 oz) self-raising flour
75gm (generous 2 1/2oz) dried fruit
150gm (5  1/4oz) porridge oats
preheat the oven to 180 deg C (350 deg F) gas mark 4.

Chuck together the butter, sugar, egg, milk and vanilla extract into a bowl and beat well. Add the flour, dried fruit and oats and mix well with a wooden spoon. put heaped teaspoons of the oatie yummy dough on to well greased baking trays - space well apart (otherwise all your little teaspoon lumps end up as a frisbee sized oat platter!)
Bake in a preheated oven for about 12 - 15ish minutes, I have done both times and the 12 mins gives you a softer 'cookie' with crisp edges and the 15 mins gives you a crisper crunchier biscuit, either way - they don't last long. The photos below are the THIRD baking, the previous two were munched fairly quickly soon after being lifted out of the oven (.............would you like another biscuit with those third degree burns?............)

According to the recipe you can keep them in an airtight container and eat them within 5 days - hah! fat chance.

Recipe 15/52 Jam Packed Flapjacks

This one I found on the BBC website. We've had them three times and after the initial baking, I omitted the jam as we found it just too sweet.

Delish - however - each time and despite copious amounts of greasing or grease and silver foil, these flapjacks stuck horribly. When I made them in the silicone baking tray, they didn't stick....to the base of the tray or to themselves! The flapjacks just fell apart into a pile of very yummy crumbs.

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Ok, that's enough waffling about biscuits, time to go into the kitchen and actually clear up the fall out from those flapjacks, which entails an awful amount of hoovering up of yummy oaty crumbles and I don't mean with the vacuum cleaner!!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend and here's to the start of the week!!

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Weekend round up and recipe number 11/52 and 13/52

Saturday, we walked in the Yorkshire Dales. It was wonderful, the fresh spring air, the crisp breeze and the gently warming sun.  We sat and drank in the view as we drank our tea. There was hardly any one about so we, in splendid isolation, revelled in the wild beauty of it all.

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Made some Jam-packed flapjacks (from BBC food) only have one to say about them - they didn't last long! Going to make them again. I did my usual and adapted the recipe slightly to our tastes and what was available in the store cupboard. (11/52)

Also tried two more different recipes and put them together for tonight's evening meal.

Lemon spaghetti 

This was a brilliantly simple and quick dish and Himself tucked in only pausing to hmmmm hmmmm as he chewed. Might be making this one again too :)

• 12oz/350g dried spaghetti
• juice of one lemon ( the recipe called for a large lemon, I used a smallish one and found this to plenty)
• good glug of olive oil
• seasoning

• cook the pasta in salted boiling water to taste, drain well and return to the pan
• mix the oil and lemon juice and salt and pepper
• pour onto the spaghetti, toss well and serve in warmed bowls.

I would be quite happy just to eat that dish with a bit of salad, but Himself likes a 'little something' extra so I made a creamy mushroom sauce to plonk on the top of the spaghetti.

I sliced mushrooms and gently fried them in a bit of butter and olive oil, then sprinkled flour on, stirred until the flour coloured slightly then added some milk to make a 'white sauce'. I then sliced thinly some garlic and chucked that in the simmering sauce. Added lots of black pepper and when cooked I served it on the spaghetti. It didn't stay on our plates for long! Nom nom (as Colouritgreen says when she has a yummy recipe!) (13/52)

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Japan - I will let you know what I doing tomorrow xx 

12/52 and Red Nose Day baking

Last night, after the marathon baking sesh, the boys went off to music. Once they returned, they rolled up their sleeves, washed their hands and iced each and every bun. 

Then, this morning, I helped Youngest to carry into his school, one small tub and 6 large tins full of chocolate iced buns. Success!


 I suspect there won't be a single one left this afternoon - oh well, back to the kitchen......

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Last night, after all that baking and icing, the last thing I wanted to do was cook an evening meal. However, Himself has permanent hollow legs and looked rather forlorn at the prospect of nothing to eat.

So a quick look in what I call my 'lazy cook book'  I found this - 

Baked Leek and Potato Gratin. 

It was really quick and easy and filling. (So it is recipe number 12/52)

2lbs potatoes - sliced (the recipe called for thinly - mine were a bit more 'rustic' in size)

2 large leeks (or several smaller ones dug out of the garden)

7oz grated cheese (the recipe called for brie or camembert but I used cheddar)

3/4 pint cream (I used milk!!)

1. Preheat the oven to 180 deg c
2. cook potatoes in salted boiling water until slightly softened and drain well
3. cut the leeks into 1cm lengths and blanch in boiling water then drain (I actually chucked mine into the potato water as it was already lovely and hot and just waiting there)
4. turn half the potatoes into a shallow ovenproof dish and spread out to cover the base
5. chuck in most of the leeks over the potato layer
6. cover with the remaining half of potato slices, leeks and the cheese
7. pour on the milk
8. season with salt and pepper to taste

Bake for about an hour until tender and golden and smelling absolutely delish!

The recipe suggests that if the top browns too quickly to cover with some tin foil to prevent burning.

I'd accidently broken a couple of eggs after the bun making marathon so I fried those and served them on top of the gratin and the look on Himself's face when he saw that I was still going to feed him was delightful!

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walking weekend, 9/52 and 10/52

Right.

You are about to go on a walk and you have been asked to get together all the stuff you will need. Bearing in mind that there is about a 20 minute car drive first

  and  you are a 10 year old boy. 

Ok? Ready? well off you go............

• Did you remember to take your toy car? 
• And that large TransFormer and his mini-me side kick? 
• Oh yes don't forget you need to take your camera (sans batteries) 
• And your GPS (plus flat batteries and then ask mid way to walk if any one has any spare batteries..)
• And for good measure - would you have remembered to take....(wait for it....) your guitar?... I thought not.
• You would have, I suspect, not taken your gloves, or found your hat, or collected your scarf or even begun to look for your walking boots or coat.  For which, as your mother, I would have said a thing or two about your choice of equipment.

Having addressed the balance we would have got in the car, you would have a cross face and a restricted toy collection and I would have a furrowed brow. Then on the journey to our walk, our collective grumpy demeanour would have evaporated with the miles and by the time Himself had parked the car, we would be ready for our walk :)

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While we were out, I took some photos, and I thought I'd share them with you...............

The oh-so cute fisherman's cottage with it's snowdrops and daffodils. 

The happy giddy dog smiling for the camera as we walked towards Elbolton Hill (where we stopped and had lunch)

The wonderful view were we lapped up the sunshine. 

The nip in the air just about bearable as we sat eating our sandwiches 

minus our usual layers of fleeces.

Meandering drover's tracks gently falling away from the hills

leading us to quaint little villages, 

where time appears to have stood still - 

the only hint of modernity are the expensive looking shiny 4x4s littering the driveways.

A strange earth working machinery rusting quietly next to a rickety shelter, 

the vehicle reminded me of Scoop from BoB the Builder

The sunshine bright enough to gift us strong shadows which kept us company all day

Two lovely days of walking.

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We have a book club at work, where a company comes in and drops off a selection of books for us to look at and potentially buy.  I flipped through a cook book idly on Friday evening as I waited for the last patient to leave, when I spotted a couple of recipes that looked quick and easy. After further reading I found several more that really interested me, so I have put my name down for a copy. The first two recipes that caught my attention I wrote down on a scrap of paper to try this weekend and both got the thumbs up from Himself.

One was leek fritters and the other was a very quick lentil dhal - which initially tasted rather dull but with a bit of tweaking, soon improved. I will make them again I am sure, but until then I now have numbers 9 and 10 to add to my 52 recipes I've not tried before. 

Quick, easy and cheap = excellent in my book!

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Time for me to finish waffling, I am sure I could say so much more but it's getting late. So I wish you a good night and hope the spring-like sun shone for you this weekend :)
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Oh - and before I forget, I have been doing some crochet but I can't show you just yet - no, it's not a surprise, it's blogger stopping me downloading any more photos until I pay them some money!!

Ha!

Looky Looky!

Today's heart 

was brought to me 

by 

the postman!

This sweet little coin purse has been made by Gwnïo from Gwnïo's Adventures.

 I saw it on her blog and fell in love with it!

We'd got chatting via email and blog-chat and it appears we had a very similar upbringing in the same far away countries! What a coincidence - finding an ex-Rhodie who also loves funny little cars with character, making things in wool, sewing, growing things, chickens, cats and cooking!

ddiolch 'ch!

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I've been crocheting - doing my first CAL following a list suggested by Gwnïo and have to admit the first square has turned out to be a whopping big one!

Now to start the next one!

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It is a Saturday - so guess what? Yes you guessed correctly - the weather was once again less than perfect, actually it snowed overnight! The boys needed entertaining so I set them baking, Eldest made some rather delicious shortbread biscuits (another one for the 52) and Youngest tackled making scones, complete with jam and cream. 

Suffice to say, Himself and I feel absolutely stuffed! Yum yum 

Eldest sprinkled golden caster sugar on the still warm shortbread biscuits

They were absolutely delish! (I may have already mentioned that, once or twice) We ate far too many...... then came back and had some more!

Youngest's scones - still warm and slightly soft in the centre - I can just feel the calories piling on!

Then, as the evening began to draw in, the weather felt more benign, so we donned boots and coats and set off for a short walk - to blow away any cobwebs and hopefully to burn off some calories, suspect we needed to go on a lot longer walk!!

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You can find the shortbread biscuit recipe here - thanks Mon from Holistic Mama

And if you are interested, follow this link to see what hearty happenings I got up to last year.

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Friday night and fairy lights, fire, food, feline and funk........

It's Friday evening - Woo Hoo! 

It's a funny thing, this working lark,  it's taken all week to get to Friday and now suddenly it's here and I have the whole weekend to look forward too. 

All my boys are out this evening and the house has taken on a solitary air. 

I've put on the fairy lights (we just couldn't let them go at the end of the festive season and so they remain draped and twinkling in our house) and they give a gentle kindly light. 

The fire is crackling away warming the house with a comforting protective feel to it. 

Himself has made and left for me his trademark tuna pasta recipe and I am tucking into it happily. 

The radio is hosting a 12 hour dance music marathon and I think the base line is beginning to get to me....might be time to change the station........

And the feline? Well, while I was taking photographs of my latest WIP (soon to be frogged back) her funny little furry face appeared.... I will leave you with the pictures, they say so much more that words.

.............Feed me please.......................

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And for all of you who asked for the recipe, here it is, the ..........

 'To-die-for-potato-salad'

1. 5 - 7 medium sized potatoes with their skins left on  - chopped into generous chunks
2. 1 large red onion, peeled and chopped
3. Handful of mushrooms - sliced
4. 2 garlic cloves - thinly sliced
5. Oil for frying
6. A few broccoli florets, snapped into nice 'pop in the mouth' size pieces
7. Tin of chickpeas - drained
8. Cucumber, tomato and celery - quantities to taste and all chopped into bite sized pieces
9. Cheddar cheese cubed - again to taste, I put in about tea cup's amount, there probably was more original, but I kept having to quality check it (erhem...)
10. 2 generous tablespoons of plain yoghurt
11. 2 generous teaspoons of your favourite wholegrain mustard
12. Salt and pepper

• Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender and ready to eat, drain.
• Meanwhile fry gently in oil the onion, garlic, broccoli  and mushrooms
• Once they are cooked, add the potato chunks and the drained chickpeas, mix well
• Toss in the cucumber, tomatoes and celery
• I kept the frying pan on the oven's lowest heat and stirred it enough to prevent the vegetables sticking
• Meanwhile make the dressing - mix the yoghurt, wholegrain mustard and season to taste
• Take the vegetables off the heat, toss in the cheese and mix well 
• Serve with a goodly gloop of the dressing.
• Serve to a hungry husband and be pleased at how it fills his hollow legs!!

The original recipe can be found here at Crochet with Raymond.

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Well, that's all for now, want to finish my tuna pasta off, so have yourself a good weekend where ever you are!

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4/52 - A made-to-die-for potato salad

I'd been wanting to try this recipe for a little while but not having the time (work), the inclination (viral what-evers) or the ingredients (kept forgetting to write down on the shopping list) I have had to make it wait. But tonight I managed to overcome all three obstacles. It was very tasty and very filling, although I did tweak it slightly for our palates.

I am a committed not 'a-100% -vegetarian' and have been for over 20 years,  Eldest happily dabbles and plays with his food while Youngest is a raving carnivore, well actually he and Himself are raving foodie-vores - their mantra is...it's food - you eat it!

It is often quite difficult to satisfy all our needs, so I am always on a look out for a recipe that can do that. Well two out of the four ate it happily, the other two preferred to have ravioli. Well, can't win them all!

Work In Progress***, weekend walks and Number 2 of 52

***I have had to change the name of this post as I am getting an extraordinary amount of traffic from rather saucy web sites and searches that I would rather not encourage!!

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I took my new hat for a walk yesterday - my new hat loved it, my new hat wants to go on LOTS more walks. It wants some friends and my new hat asked me, yes, asked me to make more new hats - and I said yes! Sigh, crafting life is good......... (if not a little nutty)


Let me introduce you to my new hat.                Tadaaaaaa-a-a-a-a!!

Ooooh - I love it when I attempt something without a pattern and it works!!


Right - details:
Wool - 100% pure 'Isle of Auskerry' wool - Aran 3 ply from North Ronaldsay sheep

Measurement :    'Band' - 60 cm done in BLO (Back loop only). 'Top' - ever increasing 'disc' in single crochet of a diameter of 18cm

Amount of yarn used : Under 100gm - still have some left for another project

Cost: £6.00 from the Fossil Museum on the Isle of Orkney


Photo - me and that hat - do you know how difficult it is to take a photo of your own head?!


Hat - Very warm, snug, sporting a snow flake and on my head at this very moment.


   And me? Happy happy !!

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Any way, I know why my hat loved the walk - it just sat on my head (or Eldest's head) for over 13 km of country lanes and muddy paths, while I slipped and tripped along. Still not up to full strength I struggled a bit, but it was wonderful to be out and we finally returned to the car in the dark. Tired but a good tired.

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For Angela - 

Apple topped almond loaf cake (2)

150gm butter

150gm sugar

2 eggs - beaten

200gm plain flour

1 tspn baking powder

1 tspn almond essence

finely grated zest of 1 lemon

100mls milk

1 red eating apple - cored, in half and thinly sliced

icing sugar - for dusting

• Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg C. Beat the butter and sugar together until smooth
• Add the eggs a little at a time and stir well between each addition
• Stir in the flour, baking powder, almond essence and lemon zest. Add milk to give the cake mix a soft 'slump'
• Pour mix into a well greased loaf tin (I was given some excellent silicone baking trays - thanks Mum) and level the surface
• Arrange the apple slices over the top
• Bake in the oven for 45 - 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean and the cake has risen and is golden.
• Leave to cool then turn out onto a wire rack.
• Dust liberally with icing sugar and then eat!!

This cake has been made twice by Eldest and  it is very yummy - especially warm as the apple is soft and sinks into the cake............oooh delish!! 

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So, a very brief synopsis of my weekend. It has been lovely sharing with you what I've got up to - hope your weekend was good too :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx