Something beginning with S

It was fun to wander around my home and find things beginning with 'S'

 

 

I made this stocking a few years ago.

 

 

D2 brought this home for me and it smells beautiful.

 

 

 Yesterday we enjoyed Shortcrust topped apple and berry pies with cream.

 

 

I needed to replace this to keep my fine hair in place.

 

 

Hee Hee! The oranges are very tasty at the moment.

 

...Dot

On the Floor

Today on the floor I found the following:

Had a cute litte girl to babysit today.

Going out for dinner

Somebody else is off somewhere too....Dot

Something I made

Toward the end of last week we had our Patchwork Group Christmas Dinner. We each took a gift to swap and I made up the jar, pictured above. It had layers made up of hot chocolate powder, instant coffee and sugar (raw). To finish it was topped with mini pink and white marshmallows. It became a talking point when opened.

I had a huge bucket of frozen berries to play with (thanks Little Bro), so I made jam (lots), and Crumble which we enjoyed last night, smoothies and tomorrow I plan to make a pie with the last of them.

Last week I cooked a leg of lamb for the four of us and there was plenty leftover. I pulled out a recipe that I had not made for a while. It would be a good one for leftover cold meat around Christmas so I have shared the recipe with you below. It is delicious and reasonably simple to make. It feeds 6 good serves; I cut it back a bit so I did not have any leftovers and it fed the four of us comfortably...Dot


Cold Meat Pie
1 Tb arrowroot flour
1 Tb curry powder
2 ts salt
1/2 ts pepper
500g thinly sliced cold cooked meat (lamb, beef or chicken)
250g pumpkin, 4 potatoes, 2 medium sweet potatoes, 1 onion - all thinly sliced.
(I used a slicer: beware of the blade)
1/2 bunch spinach, silver beet or kale, de-stalked
1 cup vegetable stock

Mix flour, curry powder, salt and pepper into a bowl. Dip each slice of meat in seasoned flour. Grease a large casserole dish and line with layers of potato, meat, sweet potato, spinach, pumpkin, onion. Repeat layers finishing with potato. Pour over stock, cover and bake for approximatly 1 hour on 180 deg (160 deg if fan forced).
Serve with green peas.

Outdoors

We have had a wet, wild and woolly weekend. The rain was good for our tank. It is thankfully half full. Today was a bit calmer and I got out to fill the clothes line and it is now all dry and folded. I also went downtown to get supplies and the shops were very quiet, I guess the end of the week will be different.

 

Molly didn't worry about the wind, she kept close to me and happily explored.

 

On Sunday afternoon we popped out for an icecream and took in the rough seas.

 

I wonder if you got outdoors more than I did...Dot

 

Lights at Night

On my way to bed I put my camera up to the window...

 

 

... and took a picture of the huge tree in the middle of our town which has been lit up for a few weeks now with Christmas lights.

I then turned around and took a couple of shots of our pretty tree. All the lights are out except for those coming from the tree. We leave them on overnight so others can enjoy them too, in fact we don't turn them off until Christmas Day.

 

 

I hope you get to see some nice lights about where you are...Dot

Something Green

My garden is the best place to find a mass of green at the moment. It is doing well and we are enjoying a few things from it and will do even more so over the next few months.

 

 

The new potato patch is growing well. We enjoyed a few chats last night with our dinner.

 

 

We have already had a pick off the rhubarb and now it is growing back well to give us another go at it.

 

 

A friend passed on some seed for climbing butter beans and so these are starting to climb up the trellis I made for them.

 

Green is my favourite colour at the moment and will be for some time. It is a very refreshing colour which speaks of life and health. If I am to remain healthy I better go get some lunch, my tummy is rumbling....Dot

Sweet

And so we think of sugar, I know I did. My goal this year was to cut out sugar. I have not cut it out completely but have to admit (along with the rest of the household) that we have cut back dramatically. We have noticed that some things that we used to eat are now very sweet to our palates.

At the moment though, 3 of us are enjoying a daily chocolate tidbit from an advent basket thanks to D2 who never fails each year to make up her own Advent Idea and fills them with chocolate to share around.

And last night we received a huge box of Roses chocolates. Oh no!!! I have had a couple and we have guests coming around tonight...Dot :-)