I am a little behind with blogging at the moment, but I am slowing getting around to visit you all. Nothing wrong, just life seems to be taking over. Although Gerard has been having some nasty side effects from some drugs he takes. He has now under the consultants advice stopped taking one of his RA injections and consequently is having a flare up. Rest and healthy eating is the order of the day. In fairness we do eat healthily most of the time. We do have a tendency to have treats when we have visitors and we have had several visitors of the weekend. Homemade desserts are the best, yum!
We have an abundance of eggs at the moment so I made meringue, so that I could add strawberries and fresh whipped cream to make eton mess.
I also made a strawberry tart with a homemade custard base, using more eggs.
Topping it off with a strawberry flavoured jelly.
Finally an orange cake topped off with butter cream icing and jellied orange. The perfect addition for afternoon tea.
I have started to use the liners for my baking, so much easier than greasing baking trays. I am all for an easy life these days. I have spent a lot of time in the kitchen this weekend jam making and replenishing the empty glass bottles with basil oil. Apricots were cheap in the supermarket this week and I managed to get some yellow sticker strawberries, making the jam much more cost effective.
Already to be labelled up. Finally the rain has stopped so I am ever hopeful that I may be able to get out in a few hours and mow the lawn. I also intend to pick some more herbs ready for drying. I have an abundance of mint which will be useful for mint sauce. The roof on the outbuilding is almost finished so next we are going to replace the windows and get the door put back on. Once the structure is sound we will be able to make plans for the interior and build the raised beds. It is slow progress but we are thankful progress is being made. What are you working on?
As always I thank you for your visit and your uplifting comments.
See you soon.
