..is defrosting the freezer. It takes forever! But I found the last of the bramble and apple puddings and had it for lunch.
Such comfort when the sky is dark and the rain is lashing down.
What is your favourite comfort food in November?
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..is defrosting the freezer. It takes forever! But I found the last of the bramble and apple puddings and had it for lunch. Such comfort when the sky is dark and the rain is lashing down. What is your favourite comfort food in November?
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I fear I am having my very own energy crisis as I still feel a bit feak and weeble (as my daughter once said) after my horrid cough and cold. Several beautiful apples a day might help. They are gorgeous!  ..gatherings and sharings..      I have almost a kilo of sloes in the freezer to make sloe gin when I am recovered! I have not made it before. Have you? ..are quince and brambles. Am thinking puddings.     Thankfully soething mostof us rarely experience.
It was a long journey home from York. Three buses, two trains and a ferry and all connections worked out well until the last one. I had to wait an hour for the last bus. I don't eat much when travelling and all I had had was an egg and a biscuit, so I was truly hungry by the time I got home. I had eaten out in York at the wonderful Betty's and I had lovely meals made for me by friends, but I have to say that the quickly made Heinz baked beans on buttery toast with a cup of strong tea was the best tasting and most enjoyed meal I have had for ages! Every mouthful utterly utterly delicious! ..is one of FlyLady's best ideas (It's a Wednesday). I kept buying healthy food and not eating it, then I feltt so terribly guilty for wasting food when some people have none, that I kept putting off clearing out the fridge! Eventually, one Wednesday, I just faced it. Some went in the compost, some in the bin, some glass jars went in the recycling, some leftovers in the freezer and some in the juicer.   Some went on a my plate for an interesting lunch. Then it was time to go shopping.  What will you do next anti-procrastination day? Do share! ..and putting on weight! This beautiful clematis was an inexpensive supermarket buy, in a very small pot and I read that it is a good idea to grow them on in a bigger pot until they have a stronger root system before planting them out in the garden. It is doing well so far in the greenhouse.  The underside is lovely too.  The weather is awful, so I am still enjoying Wimbledon. So far with my tennis I have had scones and jam, strawberries and cream, white wine and gin and tonics. How many more days has the tournament to go? You can always tell a blogger - they photograph their food before they eat it! It's a wonderful and relaxing treat to have such food put down in frnt of you. Leisurely breakfasts and healthy lunches..  Salads and juices with 7, 8, 9 ingredients.    A restaurant on the beach as the sun set - torches lit the beach after dark and we waded into the still warm sea.     Desserts included the best affogato ever! All making me rethink my cooking at home.. ..when you just have to grit your teeth and spend some money. The old chairs lasted 20 years and will now be recycled, as will the cushions which were so faded you wouldn't know they once had a pattern on them. They were sparking no joy whatsoever!   Breakfast outside on a sunny, if cold, spring morning is sparking joy! The tulips, Purissima, start out greenish, turn creamy then white. They are also one of the very few which repeat in my garden.
Have you had any meals outside yet?  100 g each of butter, caster sugar, ground almonds and SR flour. Beat togeher butter and sugar then work in almonds and flour. With damp hands roll into 20 or so walnut sized pieces. Bake 180C for 10 minutes. Sandwich together with Nutella. Make on a wet and windy afternoon. Serve with good coffee and pretend you are in Italy. ..that when plans go awry, my thoughts turn immediately to chocolate?  I ate all of them... A big bag of apples and a box of clementines.  The extravagance I really want is a trip to Paris to see this exhibition, but it's not looking likely.... ..about November. We have had a very wet, windy and grey spell of weather and I am having to look hard to find things about Novembeer to be cheerful about! The first sweet clementines with leaves on are irresistible, in their lovely natural basket. They say we will have sunshine on Sunday. Can I wait that longg?  .... If at first you don't succeed...have some cake. It's often worked in the past, but oddly , I seem to have gone off cake! Which could in fact be useful as I am still trying to lose those pandemic pounds....  Charlie Mackesey's description of mole stuffing himself with cake in The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse always makes me laugh out loud. A ten minute bus ride to the next village along the shore today to meet a friend at a new cafe which has opened next to the village hall and the phone booth gallery, and across the road from the pier (the ticket office is available for holidays...) and a good view of the Waverley. Perfect.    I can recommend raspberry with white chocolate topped with fresh mint. This cute little building on the shore, not five minutes walk from my house, has just opened as an ice cream shack. Sooo tempting! And for a village without a shop it is a big event.     What would your blissful breakfast look like? Can you make it happen this weekend? Kylie Flavell, pragmatic dreamer, makes her dreams come true. You can too..  We had our famly mid summer beach barbecue yesterday, in gorgeous sunshiine and with the beach to ourselves. My husband used to say that if the weather waas this good al the time it would be crowded here, so we savour each beautiful day and count our blessings. So happy!  I have to dictate texts and answers to your comments, and while predictive text can be wonderful it can also be very annoying and make utter nonsense of my message. . I sent my sister a phtoto of some sunflowers I had bought and we were discussing where they might have been grown. I said 'Not in Argyll.' and the nachine sent 'Naughty naughty girl'!! She spent the afternoon wondering what she had done wrong! It rather defeats the purpose when you have to read what you have dictated to check that it is right....  Hugs and friends at my table - that's what's been missing from life. It was so hot we had to move the table to the back of the house to have some shade. And the smell of the lilac was divine.  I rarely feel thirsty. So I forget to drink water. How can I forget that when I do drink a few glasses of water a day I feel more alert, less sluggish and therefore happier? Pouring a big jug of water in the morning and leaving it sitting out in the kitchen reminds me.... Such a simple thing! Sometimes, if I waken early and the sun is out, I will have two breakfasts. Some coffee and toast, savouring the deep early morning silence. A few birds sing and the cuckoo calls further up the glen. Later I will cook something more substantial.. I love a slow start to my day.  My bithday flowers have lasted three weeks! I added the camassias from the garden.  Have a happy Sunday!
   Cakes, food and wine, flowers and cards, balloons. bunting, sunshine, my birthday was wonderful and the best gift of all was to have my family here Together for the firs time in a long long time. Relaxing in the sun (Laura nd Scott went for a swim in the loch) it felt almost normal! The gorgeous cup and saucer is a present from my sister. I hope you have some good things to celebrate too. I am also celebrating the loss of that five pounds I was aiming to lose between the Easter cake and the birthday cake - keeping it off will be the next challenge. The next project is an exhibition.... Between Easter cakes and birthday cake (about three weeks) I intend to lose 5 pounds and be comfortable in my clothes again!   My sister bought me this pretty plate. It says Have your cake and eat it! If only we could.. |
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