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It was 10° and overcast here today and a bit windy as well. Not exactly the weather for sunbathing.
Covid jab went fine, no problems, but then I didn't expect any.
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Covid jab went fine, no problems, but then I didn't expect any.
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Breakfast: fruit salad and yoghurt.
2nd meal will be more buttered chicken, this time with cooked, chilled, jewelled basmati rice. I'm taking it with me when I go out today. I made enough to share with about 15 or 20 other people so that I could take it today.
Just finished the lemon cupcakes so no rushing around today.
2nd meal will be more buttered chicken, this time with cooked, chilled, jewelled basmati rice. I'm taking it with me when I go out today. I made enough to share with about 15 or 20 other people so that I could take it today.
Just finished the lemon cupcakes so no rushing around today.
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Brr that's chilly @Annb, I noticed you have very cool weather and rain on the weather forecast. It's warm here today, we have 24C at the moment - not too hot but I can't stay in the sun. I got up early and was in the garden before 8, planted out the squash and set up trellises and supports for them and the cobra beans.
I'm in the shade now with a camping fan and lots of iced water, potting on and potting up and sowing some successions of carrots, peas, salads and another chilli pepper (havana gold, to replace my first one which hasn't really thrived like the others - the others are all flowering now!)
My windowsill sungold tomato has its first ones ripening now, just turning yellow. I'm so excited, I've never had tomatoes before August/Sept in the past. I also have a windowsill cucumber that grew up under grow lights, it's a mini one, and looks really healthy. If it thrives it will be my first ever cucumber that didn't die before fruiting! There are some little fruits on it already.
In other news, I've filled up the bird baths (one on the ground, two off the ground) three times today already! I'm going to have to stand there with the hose all day tomorrow I think!
Edit: Ooops forgot to post food! Porridge for breakfast, cream cheese lettuce boats with a couple of crackers for lunch, and I'll have some grilled sausages and chicken for tea with a salad.
I'm in the shade now with a camping fan and lots of iced water, potting on and potting up and sowing some successions of carrots, peas, salads and another chilli pepper (havana gold, to replace my first one which hasn't really thrived like the others - the others are all flowering now!)
My windowsill sungold tomato has its first ones ripening now, just turning yellow. I'm so excited, I've never had tomatoes before August/Sept in the past. I also have a windowsill cucumber that grew up under grow lights, it's a mini one, and looks really healthy. If it thrives it will be my first ever cucumber that didn't die before fruiting! There are some little fruits on it already.
In other news, I've filled up the bird baths (one on the ground, two off the ground) three times today already! I'm going to have to stand there with the hose all day tomorrow I think!
Edit: Ooops forgot to post food! Porridge for breakfast, cream cheese lettuce boats with a couple of crackers for lunch, and I'll have some grilled sausages and chicken for tea with a salad.
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Used lots of my home grown salad ingredients in my salads today - definitely weather for salads! I followed your idea @jpscloud of putting some pots on a garden table and they are outside my kitchen window
The tomato plants that survived their time during the recent frost/cold winds covered by fleece are really bouncing back and setting their first flowers - the heat really encouraging them.
Had bacon and egg with a few bought local small tomatoes on LC toast for breakfast
Lunch lots of home grown salad stuff mixed with a few ingredients sourced locally. Had hm hummus too with some celery (spanish)!
Dinner steak, local asparagus and salads and same pudding as yesterday with a few extra local strawberries. One each left for tomorrow!
The tomato plants that survived their time during the recent frost/cold winds covered by fleece are really bouncing back and setting their first flowers - the heat really encouraging them.
Had bacon and egg with a few bought local small tomatoes on LC toast for breakfast
Lunch lots of home grown salad stuff mixed with a few ingredients sourced locally. Had hm hummus too with some celery (spanish)!
Dinner steak, local asparagus and salads and same pudding as yesterday with a few extra local strawberries. One each left for tomorrow!
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@shelley262 I love your kitchen garden table! Lovely to be able to see them growing outside your kitchen window - don't they look healthy? So do your tomatoes, it's hard to imagine they were struggling in the cold just a week or so ago.
My polytunnel tomatoes are loving this heat too, they're really putting on some growth but I think even they will have to come out of the polytunnel for the day tomorrow, the forecast is crazy hot.
I almost carried on too long in the garden today but caught myself in time, just as I was starting to really feel the heat - I had a lovely cool shower and a weak electrolyte drink (sugar free). I quarter the electrolyte tablet and have it through the day if I'm getting sweaty, which I certainly was today!
Another early night tonight, hopefully early start again in the morning and then I suspect I will be hiding indoors for the afternoon!
My polytunnel tomatoes are loving this heat too, they're really putting on some growth but I think even they will have to come out of the polytunnel for the day tomorrow, the forecast is crazy hot.
I almost carried on too long in the garden today but caught myself in time, just as I was starting to really feel the heat - I had a lovely cool shower and a weak electrolyte drink (sugar free). I quarter the electrolyte tablet and have it through the day if I'm getting sweaty, which I certainly was today!
Another early night tonight, hopefully early start again in the morning and then I suspect I will be hiding indoors for the afternoon!
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3 layer day today vest, heavy jumper and a shawl over the top.
Breakfast: fried chestnut mushrooms with a sauce made from the last of the butter chicken sauce and some yoghurt. Small chunk of melon - it was beginning to go off so it had to be used.
There's still some of the sauce left so I'll cook some lentil pasta to have with that.
Must also make some chicken and leek soup today to use up the stock I made from the chicken carcass.
Breakfast: fried chestnut mushrooms with a sauce made from the last of the butter chicken sauce and some yoghurt. Small chunk of melon - it was beginning to go off so it had to be used.
There's still some of the sauce left so I'll cook some lentil pasta to have with that.
Must also make some chicken and leek soup today to use up the stock I made from the chicken carcass.
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Wow it's so hot here, I can't do any more in the garden now! It's amazing that your weather is so different @Annb!
Porridge for breakfast, cream cheese lettuce boats and a few crackers for lunch and grilled chicken and sausages again for tea.
I'll have to go and water everything later on, but I'm staying indoors now.
Porridge for breakfast, cream cheese lettuce boats and a few crackers for lunch and grilled chicken and sausages again for tea.
I'll have to go and water everything later on, but I'm staying indoors now.
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Of course, I had to check the seasoning in the soup and it was so good that I had to have a bowl of it for a late lunch.
Enough of the pasta left for breakfast tomorrow.
Enough of the pasta left for breakfast tomorrow.
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Breakfast: the rest of the lentil pasta and sauce topped with some grated cheddar. Coffee.
2nd meal will be some more of that lovely soup.
Why do I resent so much not being able to call the soup by its traditional name so as not to offend some over-sensitive computer, just because some childish people need to use pseudonyms for body parts? I also resent not being able to key in other old fashioned names and words for the same reason. It is so annoying!
The soup, by the way, apparently, traditionally includes some prunes although I have never added them - the leeks seem to me to be sweet enough on their own. This time I did shred some prunes and added them and what a lovely difference it made.
2nd meal will be some more of that lovely soup.
Why do I resent so much not being able to call the soup by its traditional name so as not to offend some over-sensitive computer, just because some childish people need to use pseudonyms for body parts? I also resent not being able to key in other old fashioned names and words for the same reason. It is so annoying!
The soup, by the way, apparently, traditionally includes some prunes although I have never added them - the leeks seem to me to be sweet enough on their own. This time I did shred some prunes and added them and what a lovely difference it made.
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How about"Roosteraleekie"
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There's an idea.
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@shelley262 I noticed you posted about rhubarb and ginger cake/muffins. Do you have a recipe for it? Does it use panda flour.
It sounds great and I have loads of rhubarb in the garden this year,
It sounds great and I have loads of rhubarb in the garden this year,
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Yes I love Rhubarb too and have had a lot in my garden. I basically use an adapted Panda Pantry recipe for muffins - see the chocolate one below as it has the dry and wet ingredients quantities for 6 large muffins. Also there is a video link on the chocolate muffin page to how he makes them and also his lemon muffins.
First step is to make the stewed Rhubarb and ginger - I just use a small amount of lemon juice with the rhubarb and ginger (to taste - I am generous!) and soften it as you heat it. You do not need to add sweetner as the muffin itself is sweet enough I find and I like the sharpness and depth of the rhubarb and lemon flavour. Its hard to judge how much rhubarb to use but I'd advise you to use a generous amount as you can use the remaining stewed rhubarb in yoghurt to use it up or in the Panda Flour AppleJacks recipe where I use the rhubarb instead of the apple. Put to one side to cool while you do the spicy/ lemon muffins. Then in each of the tulip muffin cases you put a good dollop of stewed ginger in the bottom then add the muffin mix on top of the rhubarb and Bake.
Id recommend you watch the video on how he does muffins if you go ahead and make them as helps with the general method. He makes big muffins - 6 out of the quantities and I have to halve them and share with my husband. when turned upside down for serving they look like mini steamed puddings. You could just make smaller ones but obviously you'd need to change cooking times. I haven't tried doing the smaller ones as happy to freeze and share them! They freeze really well as do all Panda Flour baked goods and means that as I have a variety of flavours of muffins in the freezer so we can have variety.
The dairy free alternative wet ingredients also do work really well if you are dairy free - I have made both dairy and dairy free over time and can't really tell a lot of difference tbh. Apple jacks if interested use stewed rhubarb and ginger instead of apple
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Thank you. I have some of the panda cake lemon mix so will start with that.Yes I love Rhubarb too and have had a lot in my garden. I basically use an adapted Panda Pantry recipe for muffins - see the chocolate one below as it has the dry and wet ingredients quantities for 6 large muffins. Also there is a video link on the chocolate muffin page to how he makes them and also his lemon muffins.
For Dry ingredients you could use his shortcut - I often do these days - and use 225g of one his cake mixes to make it easier - the pumpkin spice mix would work well with rhubarb or the lemon mix. These are available as sample packs.
First step is to make the stewed Rhubarb and ginger - I just use a small amount of lemon juice with the rhubarb and ginger (to taste - I am generous!) and soften it as you heat it. You do not need to add sweetner as the muffin itself is sweet enough I find and I like the sharpness and depth of the rhubarb and lemon flavour. Its hard to judge how much rhubarb to use but I'd advise you to use a generous amount as you can use the remaining stewed rhubarb in yoghurt to use it up or in the Panda Flour AppleJacks recipe where I use the rhubarb instead of the apple. Put to one side to cool while you do the spicy/ lemon muffins. Then in each of the tulip muffin cases you put a good dollop of stewed ginger in the bottom then add the muffin mix on top of the rhubarb and Bake.
Id recommend you watch the video on how he does muffins if you go ahead and make them as helps with the general method. He makes big muffins - 6 out of the quantities and I have to halve them and share with my husband. when turned upside down for serving they look like mini steamed puddings. You could just make smaller ones but obviously you'd need to change cooking times. I haven't tried doing the smaller ones as happy to freeze and share them! They freeze really well as do all Panda Flour baked goods and means that as I have a variety of flavours of muffins in the freezer so we can have variety.
The dairy free alternative wet ingredients also do work really well if you are dairy free - I have made both dairy and dairy free over time and can't really tell a lot of difference tbh. Apple jacks if interested use stewed rhubarb and ginger instead of apple
I tried the pumpkin spice the other day with chopped walnuts in and they were good. Also the coffee and walnut with strong espresso instead of other flavouring and extra chopped walnuts.
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Im sure the lemon mix would work really well you could always add a bit more ginger to the cake mix if like me you really like ginger!
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I do.
MommaE
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A tasty use of rhubarb is sugarfreelondoner.com site recipe Rhubarb coffee cake. I’m still waiting on my rhubarb, almost ready to start picking. My neighbours plants are much bigger, with the same aspect so I’m wondering if it’s because mine is only about three years old and also had to suffer a temporary move last year.
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Breakfast was a poached egg on lc toasted bread, Greek yogurt with stewed rhubarb and mixed fruit that was found in a bag at the back of the freezer.
Lunch, iceberg lettuce, red cabbage, cucumber and a few chickpeas all with hm blue cheese dressing.
Dinner, lamb chop and Greek salad.
Lunch, iceberg lettuce, red cabbage, cucumber and a few chickpeas all with hm blue cheese dressing.
Dinner, lamb chop and Greek salad.
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Now I need lamb! I have some lamb leg steaks in the freezer, so I'm defrosting those for tonight. I stopped buying supermarket tomatoes because they were terrible quality (I only do online shopping at the moment so I can't see what's good or not). My sungold windowsill tomato is just about ripening the first fruits but not quite today, so Greek salad will have to wait, I'll just have some ordinary salad!
I was so busy keeping cool and trying to do some urgent garden things that I didn't post for a bit, but I've survived the crazy heat and so have my plants, so far. Last night I had my tower fan on full blast right next to the bed, and actually got a good sleep. It was 35C in my bedroom when I went to bed!
I've been getting up around 4.30am and doing quiet jobs in the garden from about 6, as all the neighbours have their windows open and wouldn't really appreciate a lawnmower or garden shredder at that time
It got too hot by lunchtime so I did things indoors for the afternoon and just popped out now and again to do odd things and water all the plants.Today is a bit less intense so I'm getting quite a bit done.
I had the usual porridge for breakfast, it will be cottage cheese salad for lunch and lamb leg steaks with salad for tea.
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Breakfast: mushrooms fried in butter on a small soda scone. Coffee.
2nd meal will be more of the roosterleekie soup.
Not going to be fit for much today. Neil is going to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription for Amoxycilline so that I can get started on that. I always have my little alarm button with me - just in case it is ever needed (I'm pretty sure that the one time I really need assistance, I will have left it somewhere). This morning (1.30 am), when I got out of bed I needed help, reached out to press the alarm button and knocked it onto the floor. Clumsy clot! So I had to manage without help - and I did. It was a very wobbly effort, but I got through to the kitchen and took some painkillers. A bit improved now but still very sore and having to move very carefully.
2nd meal will be more of the roosterleekie soup.
Not going to be fit for much today. Neil is going to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription for Amoxycilline so that I can get started on that. I always have my little alarm button with me - just in case it is ever needed (I'm pretty sure that the one time I really need assistance, I will have left it somewhere). This morning (1.30 am), when I got out of bed I needed help, reached out to press the alarm button and knocked it onto the floor. Clumsy clot! So I had to manage without help - and I did. It was a very wobbly effort, but I got through to the kitchen and took some painkillers. A bit improved now but still very sore and having to move very carefully.
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