A Busy Sunday

This was my day today;-

• Let the chickens out and topped up their food and water
• Tea and Toast for me and Mr Milly this morning
• Tidied the kitchen and put a load of washing on
• Put chicken in the slow cooker for dinner (not one of mine!)
• Popped to the local shops for a few bits and pieces
• Went to my friends and carried bricks from her garden and loaded into my car
• Went to the Lottie,  unloaded one lot of bricks from the car,  wheeled the bricks to the plot (too muddy to drive the car)
• Unloaded the 2nd lot of bricks and wheeled them to the plot
• Roughly laid out the base for the Greenhouse
• Hammered in the last post for the Bean Frame
• Attached and tied in the canes for the Bean Frame
• Came home,  made lunch for Mr Milly
• Made the bed
• Had a shower
• Cooked dinner and lemon cake for dessert
• Washed up and tidied the Kitchen
• Emptied all the Bins
• Made 2 Owl Hotties and a Chick-sicle
• Turned up a pair of Jeans
• Helped Mr Milly with a shower 
• Sat and watched the telly.....

Bean Frame - No climbing strings yet,  the frame is in place to start bean trench. 

Rough outline of the base of the greenhouse on Plot 96 and a spare pile of bricks. 

3 Owl Hotties - pop them in the Microwave for a bit of a warm cuddle.
The little one is a Chick-sicle,  keep him in the freezer  for when a bit of cold is needed - better than a bag of peas!

In summary,  some shopping, gardening, brick carrying, housework, cooking, nursing, and sewing.   What a day of complete extremes!


Did you have a good day?

Alison x

Cooking

I have sometime off from work and I am doing the cooking.   It's not often that I cook a meal -  it's just the way our lives are arranged as Mr Milly is the househusband and cooks the meals.    So I have been taking stock of what tools and foods we have around us and how can we do things differently.  A few reasons for this,  the first is money - can we save a bit?  The second - as there is just the 2 of us to cook for now can we do things differently?  The third  - we have the Lottie now and want to use it to its full potential.  And finally we have lots of gadgets in the kitchen, I am a bit of a gadget lover - I don't think we really use them enough.

One of the bonuses of Google - there is an abundance of recipes and information at your fingers tips.  This week we have had a Steak and Mushroom pudding.  I love these types of puddings, but the hours of steaming and having to watch the pan really put me off.   But I discovered this week you can use a slow cooker to steam these puds -brilliant!  Make the pud - stick it in the slow cooker and forget it and no steam in the kitchen.   In fact there was so little steam I was sure it wasn;t going to work!!  It did and the result was lovely - the one pud was enough for 2 of us for 2 days - so very little cost.   Today there is a chicken in the slow cooker - dinner today and a pie tomorrow!

The bread machine has been out too - I'm trying some different recipes to see what comes out and some different flours and yeasts to see if cheaper ingredients make an acceptable loaf.  Mr Milly is usually the occasional bread maker in the house and he sticks strictly to the instructions and the recipes.  I'm not quite so strict and the results so far have been good and different.

The Lottie is managing itself nicely at the min,  the cauliflowers are looking a little loose which is not good for caulis - we will see how they end up.   Everything else is coming along fine and everyday something is different which is fascinating to see.    



Sunflowers are getting tall



The pumpkin is just starting to turn orange.



Teeny little butternut squashes are starting to appear