Month: May 2019

Happily the weather turned a little feral, so I’ve had a couple of predominately lazy days.
Although I did clean up the kitchen and bake my very first apple pie!
I cheated by using the puff pastry, but I’m totally at peace with that! 🙂

I was really happy with the result and taste and reckon I might make another couple to put away in the freezer.

It was pretty easy. I greased my pie plate and lined it with a sheet of puff pastry.

In a bowl I put 1/4 cup self raising flour, 2/3 cup of sugar (Dad – please tell Mum I correctly interpreted this as two thirds and not two or three cups) 😀 (Yes there is a story there)
pinch salt, half teaspoon of nutmeg and half a teaspoon of cinnamon. (I also added a bit of cloves by accident.)

I cut 6 or so apples into small, squarish chunks and mixed them into the bowl of sugar etc, then tipped it over into the pie plate.
Added a few dobs of butter and put another sheet of pastry over the top, cut some holes and baked it at 220C for 45 minutes!

Easy !!
Cheers!

Hello!!
Today was a delightfully drizzly miserable day. No pressure to go out and work on the tree!!! 🙂
Yesterday was a beautiful day and Jeff and I spent 5-6 hours hauling bits of tree back over onto our property.
Jeff did a lot of chainsawing that cleared up areas so we could get at the stuff being pinned down by big logs.

We are slowly running out of room but happily we’ve just about moved everything from the front.
Then we can concentrate on chipping, splitting and stacking.

The neighbours gateway has been freed up

We’ll need to straighten the fence and pick up the rubbish that kindly passing motorists throw out their window (sigh… how does anyone think thats ok?)

Anyway, the overall job of moving this off the roadside has dwindled dramatically… and yes… we have been feeling it!!
Very pleased to take a slower day today!

I finished the second of the four blankets I’ve been working on! This one is for me! I got to snuggle under it tonight with Pip while I was working on another one. Two more to go then I will allow myself to start a new crochet project!!

Not much else amazing happening here today… working on that backlog of photos, taking treats to the chooks etc. Picked the last apples off one of the trees – probably need to go get the others soon too.
Now… what to do with them all??
I see more kitchen time in my immediate future!

Cheers!