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Having used up my preserved tomatoes I need to remedy that gap.
This just takes a few minutes to make using larder ingredients.
A clean jar
3 salad tomatoes, sliced
2 cloves garlic, sliced
Pink peppercorns
1 tsp coarse grain mustard
Balsamic vinegar
Oil. In this case sunflower.
Throw it all into the jar. Shake gently to mix. Take a picture and put in fridge 😄
With peas (cos I like them), yogurt and chopped parsley.
The cauliflower was al dente, and you could still taste the vegetable, as well as the spices.
Roughly chop, make the base, add the rest, cover and sweat, add stock, bring to boil then simmer.
Today I drew off 1/3 just before cooked, blitzed it and returned to the main. Added thickness, I wanted the soup to have some body, but I also wanted it to have plenty of bits on show.
A friend has not been well lately. He liked the pictures of my first batch, so I gathered some more pears at lunchtime and made another batch.
This time with less water and a cinnamon stick, ground cloves and a touch of ginger. If nothing else, my kitchen smells amazing now!
A quick Cortado now and then I'm being my own deliveryman.
Fatto con amore? Made with love. It's the only way to cook 😁
Impatiens glandulifera
a plant introduced to England by the Victorian plant hunters as a garden plant. It has now spread all over the country, especially along river banks. The seeds are under tension in the pods, and thus spread a long way, helping to spread this plant quickly.
As pretty as it is, it chokes out the native plants, which has an impact on native insects, and therefore birds. This balsam is interrupting the native food chain. And that's why transporting the seeds or the plant in England is an offense.
On the plus side, one can make an extract from the plant which is used to treat anxiety. And the young leave (quite bitter) and the flowers can be added to a salad.
This example comes from a community meadow that attempts to re-establish English meadow plants.
The iron joggle is secured with lead. Other holes have been filled with lead to hold hooks for cooking implements. Today we would use a Rawlplug (patented in 1919) or similar plug.
As a rule I don't do cat pictures and I'm sure the Internet doesn't need any more. However I saw this on the way home and couldn't resist it. Miaow 🐱
Malcolm McLean invented the shipping container in 1956.
Here you get get fish & chips, and have churros for dessert.
A lovely trip to the Cat Cafe in Eastbourne. Birthday treat from my brother. Another item ticked off my (very) humble little bucket list!
I am still nursing a torn achilles, and today is a rest day. Too bad that the weather is ticking upwards again.
The barometer that I bought recently has turned out to be defective, so I will have to repair it, if I can. In the meantime, I found this simple but fully-working barometer in another of my favorite charity shops. It has been accurately reflecting changes in pressure for the last week, so I am very happy with it.
Those with sharp eyes will notice that this one comes from GDR - the former East Germany. I once had a car with tires made in East Germany - they hardly wore at all and out-lasted the car (which I had kept for a few years). With luck, this barometer will do the same.
The maker, Fischer, is still in business and you can find some of their products, here:
fischer-barometer.de/en/shop/product-types/barometers/?p=2
I liked the anthem of the GDR, and was sorry when the words were dropped, and they just played the music. We always listened to it in the Kneipe that I often frequented when living in Germany, and it marked closing time, too.
Listen, here:
Tiles I'm cleaning. Heavily edited to show areas that need attention.
Cleaning brings me great peace. Sanctuary from trivial conversations and busyness.