foraging for free fruit and making preserves and jams
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
I love foraging.
Posted in Food, tagged blackberry, chutney, cooking, forage, green tomato, jam making, plum, preserves on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tasty tomatoe treats
Posted in Food, tagged garden, grown your own, Rocky, sunshine, tomatoes on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sucess of growing my own tomatoes in the summer sun
A lovely day out.
Posted in Food, Random, tagged Cambridge, colleges, day out, lunch, punting, shopping, sushi on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today has been a fab day enjoying the sights of Cambridge with H2B, his mum, sister and cousin visiting from Aus. As well as a comedy narrated punting tour we wandered the many streets, shops and colleges and had a very yummy lunch at Teri-Aki. Here’s some pics of the day, including my sushi lunch
Spuds, straight from the garden!
Posted in Food, tagged garden, good life, grow your own, growing, organic, potatoes, spud on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Harvest of potatoes grown in a big pot in the garden
Bake-o-rama!
Posted in Food, Uncategorized, tagged baking, cakes, festival, Olney, Olney RFC, rugby, sevens, strawberries, tea room on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Olney 7s tournament 4th July Ladies Tea Room cake stand and strawberries and cream
A secret, stu-pendous surprise!
Posted in Food, news, tagged anniversary, car, claridges, diamond, engagement, Food, gordon ramsey, ring on March 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
a mystery car, the perfect surprise engagement and dinner at Claridges!
Savvy Shopping
Posted in Food, tagged Aldi, budget, cost cutting, Food, Morrisons, shopping on January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cutting the cost of the food shop with some savvy shopping, swapping from the big stores and getting more for my hard earned cash.
What a lovely lamb.
Posted in Food, tagged family, lamb, roast, sunday dinner on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I probably only eat a full roast dinner two or three times a year, one being Christmas and the other times at special occasions, and yesterday was one such occasion.
My other half’s parents were celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary and it was up to us kids to cook; my fella being in charge of meat [...]
fartlek for fitness?
Posted in Food, Random, Sports, tagged exercise, fartlek, routine, rugby, training on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s now less than a month to go until our first rugby match of the new season and, although its only a friendly, there seems to be no amount of fitness training that can prepare your body up to match fitness other than actually playing a lot of matches (past experience you see).
I do feel [...]
Fabulous France
Posted in Food, Random, tagged Brittany, Food, france, holidays, Josselin on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve just returned from a family holiday in Brittany and it was lovely. The weather was good, the food was delicious and the wine flowed freely. We discovered that 1Euro bottles of red are perfectly drinkable, as are the 5 Euro (5litre) barrels of wine which were equally good to wash down masses [...]
