Dinotime

Posted on May 29, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged consumers, Dinosaur, Food, Fun, Gardening, Life, People, Plants, Shopping, Sore throat, ThingsLeave a comment

I went to a garden center a couple of days ago. It’s full of all sorts if stuff, a bit like temu in a big shed. To get to the plants you have to walk round lots of displays. There used to be a way through to avoid them but they’ve blocked the routes. If there was ever a fire I think we would be trapped. There’s jewellery, glass ware, pottery, clothes, shoes, houseplants, garden furniture and other stuff. Once you get to the plants there are a miriad of different garden plants (dinosaur included). I didn’t buy any as I need to sort my garden out first. On the way out we looked at toys and sweets and cakes. There were also three separate cafes/resteraunts. It was full of people, that’s where I think I caught this sore throat.

Pud

Posted on May 25, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged afters, Chocolate, Dessert, Food, Friend, Green, keylime pie, pud, sundae, Tasty, zesty2 Comments

My friend had keylime pie for afters this evening. It looks delicious and she let me taste it. Very zesty and tasty. I had a slightly uninspired chocolate and vanilla ice cream sundae for my pud. Naughty but nice is the expression I would use. I’m going to have to stop eating ice creams but this hot weather we’ve been having has tempted me. By the way the colour is too yellow in this photo, it was almost fluo green! Or that might be my eyes?

Abstract ‘grain’

Posted on May 16, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Bees, Bread, Digital drawing, Food, grain, Insects, Life, Poem, Poetry, pollinating, Porridge, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

If all the bees were gone

There’d be no flowers

So no fruit, no vegetables

No more blossom.

We could still have wind blown pollen

So grain would be possible?

Maybe….

Not much choice

Porridge or bread?

Let’s save our bees

And pollinating insects

We need them.

Scone time

Posted on May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Burleigh ware, Butter, Calico, Cream, Design, Food, Middleport pottery, Pottery, scone, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Sultana scones with cream on a Calico Burleigh Ware plate for tea.

It was very tasty and filling. I decided not to have jam on them, it would have been to sweet. But I did butter them.

Burleigh Ware is a type of pottery made at Middleport pottery in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Calico is one of many pattern types made by transferring the pattern onto the pottery with transfer prints. It’s a skilled job to line up all the prints. They are mounted on paper and stick to the pottery when they are wetted, the print sort of slides off onto the piece. If you turn over pottery it will usually have the makers name and other details printed on the base. People who do this say they are in the ‘turnover club’ .

Turkey in an air fryer?

Posted on May 4, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged airfryer, Cooking, Food, Learning, Oven, Roast, trying to cook, turned over, wish me luck!Leave a comment

I’m currently trying to cook a turkey thigh in my smallish airfryer. To roast it the instructions say cook at 190 degrees in the oven wrapped in foil for 45 minutes, then unwrap and cook for a further 45. So that’s an hour and a half.

I don’t have any foil but I put it on a grease proof paper liner and put the metal grill on top of it to stop it from burning. So far it’s been in for two lots of 20 minutes and I’ve just turned it over again and put it on for a further 20 minutes. after that I will see if the juices are running clear.If not ill put it on for a further 20 ish… .. It smells nice, but it is a big lump! I hope this works as I might try a small chicken next..

Hot cross buns for tea.

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Buns, Christian, Easter, Food, Hot Cross buns, jesus, religious, TraditionalLeave a comment

Traditional hot cross buns, soft sweet fruited buns marked with a cross. Eaten generally at Easter to commemorate Jesus dying on the cross. I like the normal ones but they have started coming up with chocolate ones, or even ones with a creme egg in the middle. I’ve also heard of ones with cheddar cheese! Might as well have a cheese scone.

Crumpet heracy?

Posted on April 11, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged brown sauce, crumpets, Experiment, Food, heretical?, Life, melted cheese, Tasty, toasted2 Comments

Bored with crumpets toasted the with added butter I just toasted some then added grated cheese. Microwaved it for 30 seconds to melt the cheese. Then added a smidgen of brown sauce on the top. I have to say it was very tasty. Beware overheating and making the cheese hard. Also let them cool down so you don’t burn your hands and mouth!

Strawberries and Cream

Posted on March 6, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cream, Dessert, Food, Photo, Red, Spring, Strawberry, Summer, Sweet, Sweetner, TastyLeave a comment

It’s not Summer, not even Spring, but Strawberries are out in the shops and are quite tasty. I had some tonight for tea with cream. I did sprinkle a bit of sweetner over the top of them.

I did think of adding a few blueberries to the fruit but there was enough with what I’d already prepared.

What I do like is the way cream fills in the little pores of the strawberries, it makes a nice pattern and could be cropped and put together as a collage. I might do that. Red is a favourite colour and this with the contrast of black and white makes a fresh looking image.

Shrove Tuesday

Posted on March 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Easter, fasting, Food, giving up a treat, lent, moons phases, Ramadan, shrove TuesdayLeave a comment

Today is pancake day in the UK. The chance to eat something nice before Lent starts. Lent is a Christian tradition where people give up a favorite food until Easter. I guess in some ways it’s comparable with the tradition of Ramadan in Islamic culture, where people do not eat between sunrise and sunset until the end of the period of time when they celebrate the end fasting. I don’t know much about either religion, but it’s interesting that both are movable feasts (related to the phases of the moon).

Going back to pancakes. UK ones are bigger but thinner than the ones in America. The crepe suzzette in France is even thinner and served on a more regular basis. We tend to mainly eat them on Shrove Tuesday. Served with sugar or sweetener and lemon juice. Some people add blueberries or other fillings.

Purrs paws claws

Posted on February 24, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Claws, Food, Fun, Happy cats, head butt, Paws, Purrs, Staring, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cat paw on my hand, he likes saying hello. Hello in the morning, when he comes up to me, assumes the “staring” position and waits to be fed! Then sometimes he will reach out with his paw to greet me. My other two don’t do that. One sharpens her claws on my leg, pulling holes in my leggings, the third likes to head butt my hand in greeting. Sweet.

Mallaband-Brown

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