Well, I've made the hollandaise ....... and it's the law that when you make hollandaise you have to make meringue with the egg whites, isn't it ......... so it's a good job we've still got some of those strawberries and ice cream left from my shopping trip yesterday, isn't it ... Supper will be salmon with asparagus and new potatoes and hollandaise sauce followed by Pavlova with strawberries and ice cream ......... form an orderly queue
Just thinking, it's the sort of thing we used to do for summer weddings when I had the catering business 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Possum makes chocolate fondants @Dovefromabove in batches of 9 and they go in the freezer without being cooked and then make a very easy and delicious Sunday dinner dessert; just using the oven after the roast comes out. They use more egg yolks than whole eggs so we have frozen egg whites. She's also taken to cooking Saturday evening meals and is planning a soufflé with some of the egg whites as I don't have double cream for a pav.
Damp day here after a muggy and slightly damp day yesterday. OH and I have been having a mega clean. Just all the kitchen surfaces and floor left for me to do and then I'm off out to the cave to do the last batch of mortar and tiling. It's been far too nice to play in the cave recently.
I spread 2 x 60 litres of compost under the bigger wisteria yesterday and planted a mix of hosta Gold Edger, Japanese painted fern, another anonymous fern and hosta and some geranium phaeum and macrorhizum, finishing with purple leaved violets. It already had some daffs, hardy cyclamens and acidanthera all dormant at the mo so, as long as the chooks don't rearrange it all it should have a long season of interest.
Planning to put chipped bark on as a moisture retentive mulch when today's rain stops.
Our bedroom has a door, not a window, so that only gets opened when it's really hot. meanwhile, we can open the bathroom windows if we need extra ventilation. We don't worry about wildlife noises with 2 cats about the place.
Supposed to be back to dry and sunny but not baking hot tomorrow so, touch wood, the chaps should finally come and take away all the crud from our tornado visitation last October. Don't tell OH but I have plans for the bits where several panels of corrugated iron roofing ahs been lying as it will have been an effective weed suppressant n'est-ce pas?
@Busy-Lizzie other than proper Cumberland or venison sausages from a proper butcher I haven't bought English sausages since 1991 when we moved to Belgium and found they make real pork sausages with no nasty rusk and mechanically rendered nasties. Here I generally buy Toulouse or country sausages with pork and herbs. There's a local producer here who also does them with salt from the Il de Ré or Pineau de Charente. Luscious.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I loooove puddings of all kinds - very naughty! But my baking corner of the kitchen is currently serving as my potting shed. Everything potted on and outside now so it needs clearing and cleaning - saving that for a rainy day. Yes, I know it is raining now, but I mean another rainy day! It will have to be done before the end of next week though - visitors!
Unexpected but very welcome rain here - give the plants a good slurp before the nice weather returns tomorrow.
Been on a morning tour in the car running various errands. One of which was to buy a new parasol for our terrace. Old one is 22 years old, and although the wooden frame is still good the fabric is now patched beyond further repair. Gone for a cantilever one this time - decided that if we are not too old to balance on tables putting the cover on the thing now, we certainly will be in another 22 years time 👵🏻👴🏻.
Now it’s time to get the books out and do some more swotting 📚
@punkdoc, it might have to be Asparagus spears at 20 paces, that's my ideal menu @Dovefromabove😄.
Well I looked up from my last post and there were spots of rain on the patio. (Not forecast till tonight, and then only maybe). It's not stopped since, so we just had to go to our favourite GC/ nursery. Feeling very poor now, but at least we got OH a belated birthday present.
I think there will be a lot of jostling in the queue @Dovefromabove! Sounds delicious! @tui34 I don't think the two are connected but I read that Orange went down on all emergency numbers the night before last causing urgent cases not getting to hospital, ours went down the same evening, there's certainly something odd going on. We have torrential rain and thunder now and the heating has been on. On second thoughts Dove I think your delicious meal will have been snapped up before I have finished my quarantine!
I’ve had an absolutely lovely afternoon. Hubby had secretly ordered a large tin of Derwent Procolour pencils for my birthday from Amazon and they arrived rather earlier than he expected. So I was encouraged by him to open my present about 3 weeks early and I have had a really happy afternoon, testing colours and entering them in my book that I record all my colours in. I can’t remember having had so much fun for ages. 🙄🙄. Yes, I know, easily pleased, but hey, why not.
I will catch up on your doings in the morning. Night all.
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Just thinking, it's the sort of thing we used to do for summer weddings when I had the catering business 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Damp day here after a muggy and slightly damp day yesterday. OH and I have been having a mega clean. Just all the kitchen surfaces and floor left for me to do and then I'm off out to the cave to do the last batch of mortar and tiling. It's been far too nice to play in the cave recently.
I spread 2 x 60 litres of compost under the bigger wisteria yesterday and planted a mix of hosta Gold Edger, Japanese painted fern, another anonymous fern and hosta and some geranium phaeum and macrorhizum, finishing with purple leaved violets. It already had some daffs, hardy cyclamens and acidanthera all dormant at the mo so, as long as the chooks don't rearrange it all it should have a long season of interest.
Planning to put chipped bark on as a moisture retentive mulch when today's rain stops.
Our bedroom has a door, not a window, so that only gets opened when it's really hot. meanwhile, we can open the bathroom windows if we need extra ventilation. We don't worry about wildlife noises with 2 cats about the place.
Supposed to be back to dry and sunny but not baking hot tomorrow so, touch wood, the chaps should finally come and take away all the crud from our tornado visitation last October. Don't tell OH but I have plans for the bits where several panels of corrugated iron roofing ahs been lying as it will have been an effective weed suppressant n'est-ce pas?
@Busy-Lizzie other than proper Cumberland or venison sausages from a proper butcher I haven't bought English sausages since 1991 when we moved to Belgium and found they make real pork sausages with no nasty rusk and mechanically rendered nasties. Here I generally buy Toulouse or country sausages with pork and herbs. There's a local producer here who also does them with salt from the Il de Ré or Pineau de Charente.
Luscious.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Been on a morning tour in the car running various errands. One of which was to buy a new parasol for our terrace. Old one is 22 years old, and although the wooden frame is still good the fabric is now patched beyond further repair. Gone for a cantilever one this time - decided that if we are not too old to balance on tables putting the cover on the thing now, we certainly will be in another 22 years time 👵🏻👴🏻.
Now it’s time to get the books out and do some more swotting 📚
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Well I looked up from my last post and there were spots of rain on the patio. (Not forecast till tonight, and then only maybe). It's not stopped since, so we just had to go to our favourite GC/ nursery. Feeling very poor now, but at least we got OH a belated birthday present.
@tui34 I don't think the two are connected but I read that Orange went down on all emergency numbers the night before last causing urgent cases not getting to hospital, ours went down the same evening, there's certainly something odd going on. We have torrential rain and thunder now and the heating has been on.
On second thoughts Dove I think your delicious meal will have been snapped up before I have finished my quarantine!