Hello! Not a bad day out there today, but I did spend most of it in the kitchen cleaning up my clutter & making strawberry ice cream!
I just make an old fashioned vanilla ice cream then swirl the whizzed up cooked strawberries through it! Roll on dessert tomorrow night!
I was out of potatoes in the pantry – so off to the shed to seek my backup stock.
Of course at this time of year they are all desperately trying to grow. So I knocked off the shoots and brought a box full inside. Hoping my next potato harvest will be more of the bigger potatoes compared to this titchy lot!
And – calamity – I ran out of pickled beetroot. Time to go foraging.
That will be a tomorrow job.
Three eggs… Looking forward to stocking up on a few more chickens when we return from Japan! (Squirt had a slow day. Just when I think she has about had it, she starts making chook-noises that I interpreted to “Feed me” – so I did. A lot.)
Close to my last tomatoes. This is sad. I mean, I am rapt that I have actual fresh picked tomatoes in August, but sad that soon I have a long wait until I get to taste tomatoes again.
Spent some time watering in the hot house. Seeds (of course) have not done anything yet. On Ruby’s advice I usually leave a watering can in the hothouse so I am not watering seeds or seedlings with ice cold water.
And the plum trees have started showing their first blossoms! That makes me so happy!
Cheers!
In this household, the small potatoes are preferred. Either we boil them in very salty water or steam in the microwave. Either way, they get served with lots of butter.
mmmmm – slathered in butter! I steam mine on the stove top. The new ones are the best aren’t they? My fav. is baked tho.
Its the few recipes that I need to mash potatoes for that the small ones drive me doo-lally! Peeling small potatoes is a pain!
That’s a very impressive haul for mid-winter! Thanks so much for passing on Ruby’s tip about not watering with ice-cold water. Makes perfect sense, but not something I’d ever thought about. I’ll remember that one from now on. xx
The watering thing is so logical isn’t it? So glad I have Ruby around! The things I have learned in the past 6 years!