With the advent of my returning to work two days a week, the slow cooker has been dusted off and put to good use on the days when I am out of the house, as work is fifteen to twenty minutes away by the time I pick up the girls and get home they are [...]
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Slow Cooked Sausages in Apple Juice
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged gluten free, recipe, sausages, slowcooking on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A hot afternoon for baking
Posted in Food, Home Economy, baking, tagged baking, gluten free, sausage rolls on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the hot and muggy weather that we have been experiencing, the Girls and I spent a busy afternoon in the kitchen, with some rather pleasing results.
Pardon the colour but it was taken at night using a mobile phone, not the best combination.
Everything that you see is gluten free, and I have to confess that [...]
Peas in
Posted in Allotment, Food, Gardening, Produce, Selfsufficiency, tagged Borlotti, Cucumbers, Lettuce, peas, Sweetcorn on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tallest seen here posing with the row of peas that she helped plant up and stake in.
We’ll go back to the allotment tomorrow to have a recce to see how many succumed to the bloody pigeons that seem to wait undetected while us foolish gardeners plant the fruits of our labours into the ground, only [...]
Weight Loss and (too much?) Activity
Posted in Allotment, Coeliac, Food, Produce, Selfsufficiency, Uncategorized, tagged Allotment, Coeliac, seeds, sowing, weight loss on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, posts have been a little thin on the ground, but then again so have I…
My diagnosis with Coeliac Disease around three years ago seemed to be the answer to my constant battle with maintaining a healthy weight. And for a while this was so, but 11 months after having my second baby, the weight [...]
Booby Buns!
Posted in Food, Kids!, tagged baking, buns on February 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Inspired by one of her favourite characters of book and small screen Lola from Charlie and Lola, the Tallest decided that she wanted to ice the buns with pink icing, what I didn’t anticipate was Hubby coming home from work early and presenting her with a tube of Smarties…the outcome of which resulted in her [...]
Brace of Birds
Posted in Food, Selfsufficiency, tagged drawing, pheasants, skinning on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Saturday just gone, Hubby went beating for a friend (who is normally the beater) who partook in the shoot. So on his return I was presented with a gift.
Now that they have been hung for a few days, they need to be dealt with. I recently did some boiler chickens, but it has been [...]
Ffffrosty mornings
Posted in Allotment, Food, Frugality, Gardening, Produce, Selfsufficiency, tagged Allotment, broccoli, brussels, digging, frost on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All these frosty mornings, although not helping the frugal use of wood, has definately had a palpable effect on the earth at the allotment, there is a definate breaking up of the larger lumps.
I wish that I could say that I was responsible for the largest part of the plot having been dug over, but [...]
Gluten Free Mince Pies
Posted in Coeliac, Food, Recipes, tagged baking, Christmas, gluten free, mince pies, pastry, recipe on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an attempt to keep the Tallest on the go today in the hopes of a relatively trouble free bedtime (it worked!). I decided to revisit my mince pie recipe as the pastry in such small quantities just hasn’t been surviving in the oven. Since my diagnosis with Coeliac my pastry making has been the [...]
Edible Christmas Gifts
Posted in Food, Frugality, Recipes, Selfsufficiency, tagged chocolates, easy, fudge, gifts, packaging, wrapping on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Using the recipes in the last three posts, they needed to be prettied up a bit. I was fortunate that I had some Cellophane card sleeves so I folded the bottom corners into themselves to turn it into a tube and then filled with the said goodies. Sealed the top and then gathered with a [...]
Quick and Easy Chocolate Fudge
Posted in Food, Frugality, Recipes, Selfsufficiency, tagged butter, chocolate, easy, fudge, gift, last minute, present, quick on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is so utterly simple it not true, and it never fails to get me out of a tight corner at short notice, these are a real winner to take to any occasion and can be made in the time it takes to do the washing up, its only the chilling which takes time, but [...]
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