I’ve been looking for some recipes on the bbcgoodfood
website as I find it really easy to navigate and the review are super helpful
normally. Last night I came across one
called Fidget Pie. The title alone had me wanting to make it as I love anything
with a name! Ridiculous right? So that’s down on the To Do lost for an
occasion when a huge pie is called for!
That could be a Sunday gathering or Christmas get together, who
knows. I will buy the ingredients in and
freeze them so that I have them ready to use.
Today I overheard a lady asking at our staff café if her
charity would be able to take the left overs once a week on a Wednesday. She runs a group that make a 2 course meal
for up to 100 people (started at 20!) once a week so they can have a decent
meal. The staff were so dismissive of
her that my blood boiled. I reacted
without thinking and offered to help her by giving them eggs and chutneys on a
weekly basis. I’ll make a loaf of bread
for them too occasionally and alternate with other items we have a lot of. We always have eggs and she said it will make
such a difference for them. So although
it was a knee jerk reaction, I’m pleased I did it. Small acts of kindness made a world of
difference, I hope.
The veg box from Riverford is coming today. It’s the first one from them so it will no
doubt be a good one, I find with the first ones they make sure they get
everything right. After that will be the
test. I have a ‘medium veg box with less
roots’ coming, as we have the roots ourselves, 4*4 pints of milk, double cream
and bananas. Tesco are coming Friday as
usual and I’m going to use the time to stock us as with doing so much
preserving, we’re running low on items.
In fact, I actually used the last of the granulated sugar, which is unheard
of!
I grew some Jersey Devil tomatoes which are getting bigger
each day. I wanted to grow them for the nonstandard
shape and I was super excited to see my first one was ready, or so I
thought! Turns out it had blossom rot,
so the chickens got to enjoy it. I hope
the rest don’t have it. That reminds me,
tonight I must check on the carrots and purple sprouting broccoli and see how
they’re getting on, if at all!
