Dee's Little Blog Space

Taken before my camera went kaput..

My peppers are now starting to germinate and my Tomatoes  surprisingly started to germinate 5 days after sowing [All were sown around the 10 Jan]

I’m growing  Red pointy pepper [yes that's it's name] along with  bell peppers [red green orange] from real seeds. I’ve also decided to grow a Thai green Aubergine [ she says optimistically ] also from real seeds along with my usual black enorma Aubergine..

I’m sticking with my usual Tomatoes.. Roma for sauces and Cherry sweet million. Next on my list is to decide what Squash/Pumpkin to grow,then start those off in pots in March..

Still no sign of the camera lead.. If it doesn’t show up soon I’ll send for a replacement..

I’m resorting to swiping photo’s from sites I got these recipes from, and linking to them – credit where credits due!

I am a soup’aholic. There.. I said it.

In fact I’m a one pot throw it all in kinda girl.  Soups, Stews Casseroles  Hot Pots… I trawl the web looking for recipes and if I could possibly get away with it, i would chuck everything out of my kitchen bar the cauldron. lol. I  have a large Le Creuset casserole {did you know Creuset is french for cauldron}

#Le Creuset has been making superb, award winning cookware since 1925 and the secret recipe of ingredients remains the same today. Each piece is made from a unique mould into which molten iron is poured from a large cauldron (called a creuset).#

It’s become a family joke now.. if someone asks for me, they always reply.. She’s in the kitchen stirring her cauldron – yawn! My one pot soupy, stewie obsession started years ago when I was on a diet. {Remember the cabbage diet} what can I say –  I was young and foolish and if my memory is correct, quite windy.. lol  I was on that torturous  regime for a week feeling week and nauseous before I came to my senses and realised there’s more to life than cabbages and more to the point, most soups stews etc are healthy and low fat. That was the start of my search for one pot recipes … and the end of my diet- any diet. Sensible eating  from now on.. Life is too short!

15  years on  I have around 20 one pot recipe books, 4 folders of recipes I have ripped out of magazines and a huge amount of bookmarked sites. If I were to make one recipe a day I wouldn’t get through them in my lifetime – now that’s a scary thought.. I’m just a tad obsessed I think!

Mushroom bacon barley broth

This is a very filling broth, though I would say more like a stew. Iv’e cooked it a few times with the intention of freezing some – its never around long enough to freeze..

Moroccan chickpea soup

This is a favourite of mine to use up the broad beans from the allotment – sometimes its a Moroccan broadie soup when I have no chickpeas and I’ve been known to chuck in some borlotto beans I’ve  grown at the plot..

Hopefully normal service will resume shortly. If my camera lead doesn’t show by the weekend I’ll order a new one.. I’ve got a feeling it could still be hiding in my suitcase since our last trip…

January has flown by hasn’t it !

I’ve  finally faced the fact that most of my knitting works in progress will never get finished. [ after languishing in bags for 3 years] They have all been ripped back now, after such a promising  start with my needles clicking away merrily, then moi very quickly loosing interest and the will to live..

I have three knit projects in progress – more on those later

My kitchen: My tiny kitchen, has had a reorganise, de-clutter and a new coat of paint. Something I should of done last year when we replaced the cupboard doors and worktops. I can find things now – way hay, and I’m no longer risking a trip to casualty every time I open a door.. Ouch!

I’ve made Marmalade, lots of Marmalade or so I thought. Most of it followed family and friends home. So I now need to make more..

My Camera has died. I’m not sure if it can be brought back to life, resulting in this picture less post.

My other camera has been brought  back into service though, remembering where the lead is to upload photos would be a great help..

And I seem to have developed a passion for roses.. Not for growing, not yet anyway but roses that you stitch and roses that adorn objects/fabric.

Um.. Think I’ve gone all Doris Day 50s chintzy, probably a reaction to all the grey this time of year.

My Allotment probably thinks I’ve abandoned her. Yes. My allotments a she. If I whisper quietly that I’m planning a visit this weekend what’s the chance it’ll not rain…

Tomorrow will be spent turning my bedroom up side down looking for the elusive camera lead, while I’m there I will de-clutter [time to be ruthless] as i seem to spend a third of my life looking for things..