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What to do with a surfeit of nuts? I roasted these in a mixture of melted butter, honey, and a bit of cinnamon. Spread to cool on parchment, and given a few twists of sea salt Just 7 minutes in the air fryer to transform the good to something better!
I've had an order for another jar. I'll add sesame seeds this time at the cooling stage.
For some reason the yogurt split. Not the usual brand; I think it might have had a thickening agent.
I'm normally gentle with my kitchen tools but I have fruit to use up. Packed in to the max line.
Apple
Orange
Nectarines
Almonds
Walnuts
Cinnamon
Water
Looking through the canal bridge, one can see the canal. It's still there but is now silted up. It's not just a case of clearing out the weeds, but that would be a start.
Afternoon tea with my new tea cosy. So hard to find now that few use a teapot and loose tea.
to keep me going till dinner is a Chorley cake. This is filled with raisins and baked in short crust pastry. Sometimes called fly cake for obvious reasons. Nice with a bit of butter and Lancashire cheese on the side.
Tea is lapsang with a bit of Ukrainian honey.
it's reet good!😄
The pattern of the tiles is picked up in the anaglypta on the staircase. Wonderful attention to detail.
For some reason, my 'customers' prefer a foreign-sounding name for the food I serve. Maybe it's because I look and sound a bit 'foreign'. Or they are all food snobs. Who can say.
At first, I thought the yoghurt had curdled, but it was just the sweet potatoes that needed another few minutes with the stick blender. However, I had no intention of doing that all over again. I think I'll ask them to get a proper blender for the kitchen.
The big lumps are some broccoli and asparagus. It seemed to go down well.
What you see here cost 52p to produce.
Craving a fish cake for tea, I decided to make my own. This was inspired by a Jamie Oliver recipe that uses canned goods and leftovers. I'll add the recipe later.
Cooked in the air fryer, there's less fat than if fried.
Timing is everything. Just a few minutes later and this bus would have been full of students.
The potholes combined with the hard suspension made this an almost terrifying journey. The first bang made me think we were being shot at. Really.
I see where I want to go but it's not always obvious how to get there. Time for a flanking manoeuvre perhaps.
From 'Address to a haggis', by Robert Burns
Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratfu’ prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!
It is the anniversay of the birth of Robert Burns, so it's time for a Burns Night Supper (as far as I can manage):
Haggis, neeps and tatties, and a wee dram.
I'm not a Scot, so I have granted myself the luxury of some gravy, to go with the whisky sauce, too. And you already know that I am partial to some of Burns' poetry.
Slàinte mhath!
Sold in pairs, I wonder where the other one is.
Art nouveau or Jugendstihl, I love this style. There's not enough of it about!
Tea's up. Served with some salad - I love summer salads - and a sprinkling of fried onions for some crunch.
Damp has caused my Brabantia canisters to go rusty. So off to the bin with them.
I've found this and one other in the thrift shop. Just the thing next time I head off on safari.
The more attentive will have seen that one of the jobs I set myself today was setting up my 'new' console (it's new to me).
I love finding old tech and re-using it, and I haven't played anything for years. This might be fun. However...
While waiting for the system to update, I thought a bit of lunch would be in order.
Here is this week's guac - too much garlic (for some), sliced baby cucumber, chopped capsicum, cayenne pepper, and a slosh of olive oil (oh, it makes it so creamy!).
Heracleum mantegazzianum, aka giant hogweed, was introduced to England in the 19th century as an ornamental plant. It has since spread to Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada... It's highly invasive and the leaves and stalks can cause skin rashes. The sap can make you blind. And here it is choking the river bank.
Some jurisdictions require you to notify the authorities if you see it.
As pretty as it is, don't handle it.
A small sailboat appears to have been abandoned in the sands. It's been there for a while and quicksand makes it too difficult and dangerous to be worth salvaging this boat.
Here it is. Yertis.
Not very tomato colored but it tastes ok. So it might be pasta for tea today.
40 minutes including 30 minutes cooking. Ez.
A childhood memory is of the bizarre mush that daleks ate. It looked like this.
Homemade basil pesto. Mad color, that's completely natural.
A tell tale of over loading or overheating from a Nutribullet is leaking from the base bearing assembly. No such eventuality today.
This made a pleasant if innocuous breakfast smoothie.
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When these finally open the perfume will be stunning for a few days, and the bees will gorge on the flowers.
This runs 24/7 and drags out 1/2 a litre of water from the air each day in this room. It is very quiet and efficient. It is way cheaper to run than a heater and keeps humidity to tolerable levels, if not ideal.
Comfrey in the afternoon sunshine.
Traditionally called 'knitbone', a poultice of comfrey leaves would be applied to sprains and bruises. Comfrey has deep roots that pull in the soil's nutrients. It's a good idea to fill a watering can with the plant and top up with water. Leave to stand for a week and you will have a fantastic natural fertilizer. Your tomato plants (and anythying else) will thank you for a liberal application. Just be prepared for the smell (awful!). And don't eat it, for the sake of your liver.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
All's well that ends well
Shakespeare wrote about mixing in a number of ways. This is one of my favourite lines.
When you have mixed the banana, egg, and flour the mix should look something like this.
I often wonder how public libraries will survive in the age of the Internet. John and Cuthbert Grundy, local artists, provided some funding to build this, along with Blackpool council and steel magnate, Edward Carnegie.
What is that horrendous loud noise? It's a shredder turning a tree into pulp. A pub clears its garden of a darkening shrub that was left to grow uncontrollably for years.
A dreary cloudy day, but this palm tree was cutting through all the gloom. The Pixel telephoto sensor might be one of the best available on any phone right now...
Minor edits in Snapseed, shot from the Pixel 7 Pro.
For Christmas I decided to make some biscotti for a gift. In the process I discovered the difference between cantuccini and biscotti, and found a dozen recipes that were all similar, but with different twists. I went with Gordon Ramsay's because it seemed to be easy and achievable.
Omitted here is the mixing spoon, and there's an extra ramekin of mixed nuts - it's not meant to be there; it was my afternoon snack!
Formerly a railway bridge. Now part of the national cycle network. It is best left as it is.
One can get around it so no worries.
I didn't know flamingos could sleep like this. I didn't know they could bend their legs like this. Using the zoom lens on the Xiaomi 13 Ultra. No edits.
A new bench scraper and the remnants of experimenting with making French bread (unforgiving) and spelt loaves.
A good crumb…
New kicks - in a sale, of course. When I see 'Goodyear' I immediately think of blimps! They seem to make an awful lot of them.
I've had trouble with my achilles for a month or so, and someone suggested I try a pair of Skechers. They aren't pretty, but I've been walking in them for the last few days and I don't have the same amount of pain when I make dinner now.