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The Potting Shed - come on in, the kettle's on!

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  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    Quick! I need a recipe for a fruit based pie/biscuits or something like that. Something you can serve with a glass of wine. I have logan/tay/raspberries.
    Help please.
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • calleyw
    calleyw Posts: 9,896 Forumite
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    I'm just a meanie. :D

    :rotfl:

    My main concern is the cats getting to it.

    I have seen mum and dad black bird today but could not see where it was going as it kept jumping about like it did not want me to see where it was going.

    Looks like it is going to rxxn here in a little while and I am going out and will have to leave my washing on the line. Better ring my mum just to see if she has any out :rotfl:if not I can put it on her line.

    Have a great afternoon everyone.


    Yours

    Calley
    Hope for everything and expect nothing!!!

    Good enough is almost always good enough -Prof Barry Schwartz

    If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try -Seth Godin
  • HariboJunkie
    HariboJunkie Posts: 7,740 Forumite
    Quick! I need a recipe for a fruit based pie/biscuits or something like that. Something you can serve with a glass of wine. I have logan/tay/raspberries.
    Help please.


    These would be nice with a glass of chilled white and you could use any berry you like. ;)This one looks impressive but easy enough.

    I make lots of muffins. Just use a basic muffin recipe and add whatever fruit you like. Make them in ordinary bun cases to make them look a bit more delicate.

    I also add fresh raspberries to chocolate brownies and they work really well.
  • covgirl
    covgirl Posts: 46 Forumite
    Aaargh I've found a caterpillar and I don't know what type it is. And I've tried to post a pic of it three times and each time the thread has been deleted. The third time, I didn't even try to post the pic, just asked people to check out my Flickr via the visit my homepage link... still deleted! Does anyone know any resources where I can try and ID it myself? Because if it's not too desctructive I'd rather not kill it!
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    These would be nice with a glass of chilled white and you could use any berry you like. ;)This one looks impressive but easy enough.

    I make lots of muffins. Just use a basic muffin recipe and add whatever fruit you like. Make them in ordinary bun cases to make them look a bit more delicate.

    I also add fresh raspberries to chocolate brownies and they work really well.
    Thankyou HJ, we didn't have alot of the ingredients for your one, but I managed to find this one that we did.
    http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rustic-raspberry-tart-recipe/index.html
    Made it with tayberries in the end and it really was delish. Everyone liked it.
    Last minute lot of people coming round, big panic :D

    Can you add fresh to fruit to muffins? I mean in them? I know you can add blueberries, but I thought they would be tougher than something like a raspberry?
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • HariboJunkie
    HariboJunkie Posts: 7,740 Forumite

    Can you add fresh to fruit to muffins? I mean in them? I know you can add blueberries, but I thought they would be tougher than something like a raspberry?


    They look lovely. :T

    I always add fresh fruit to muffins. Raspberries and white chocolate are lovely. Same with strawberries and bananas. I did rhubarb and custard ones last year. ;)
  • stumpycat
    stumpycat Posts: 597 Forumite
    covgirl wrote: »
    Aaargh I've found a caterpillar and I don't know what type it is. And I've tried to post a pic of it three times and each time the thread has been deleted. The third time, I didn't even try to post the pic, just asked people to check out my Flickr via the visit my homepage link... still deleted! Does anyone know any resources where I can try and ID it myself? Because if it's not too desctructive I'd rather not kill it!

    I saw your post and replied to it, but it then disappeared!

    I think it's a Vapourer moth, Orgyia antiqua, looks like this:

    Orgyia_antiqua_3.jpg
  • covgirl
    covgirl Posts: 46 Forumite
    It's reappeared now! All of my posts diappeared and then reappeared much later - I think I shouldn't have tried to post a link because I'm still new :confused:

    But yes, that's exactly what it is! I've moved him to a bramble bush now after I looked him up on wikipedia. Mind you, I'm such a soft-touch I couldn't have killed him anyway. Even when I've got them munching my brassicas I don't have the heart - I net them really carefully now instead.

    Well, we've just harvested more broad beans and peas, I took some round for the old lady next door and she was really pleased. She said it's the freshest peas she's had since the war. I refrained from pointing out she said the exact same thing when I took her some round last year, too :rotfl: Today's tea is all homegrown except the meat :j and if I could afford a smallholding, the meat probably would be too!
  • Primrose
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    Lovely idea! Yesterday we went to visit a local garden which opened under the Yellow Book charity scheme and saw such a lovely large walled kitchen garden that I was green with envy. Having enough space to grow all the fruit and veggies I wanted in a secure space without worrying it being stolen from an allotment is my idea of heaven!

    But I make maximum use of the space available in our garden, with a vegetable patch, and elsewhere growing vegetables mixed in with flowers. I just love this time of year when all the hard work of spring starts bearing fruit. My first two ripe outdoor tomatoes today make another milestone - they're from the tumbling varieties. My upright ones still look like little green marbles.
  • you are doing better than me primrose. My tomatoes have only started flowering this week. I am not holding out much hope of ripe tomatoes by the end of summer. This is the first time I have grown from seed. And it was a windowsill job as I don't have a greenhouse. I have picked spring onions, raspberries, strawberries and potatoes today. So a fair haul.
    Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination:beer:

    Oscar Wilde
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