5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

house_elf

Evening All!

Busy day thanks to DS2 and his supervisory skills We have been working in the garden again and now I am in pain

1. DD seems to have had a good day in Bristol. One of her friends got a call back for 2nd audition tomorrow!
2. Finished digging the veg patch and edged it with some terracota tiles we rescued from a skip a couple of years ago. Looks really rustic and rural. Sad we will have to leave just as the garden is taking shape.
3. Lots of birds visiting the garden now they know the bird table is usually stocked up and the soil has been turned over. We had a gang of Bullfinches yesterday and the robins are even more cheeky now they know me!
4. DS2 helping in the garden. He is a good little worker! Long may it last :j This is him on the trampoline in between bouts of helping.
5. Watching telly tonight as too stiff to move. Watched Dr Who and got Ashes to Ashes on pause while DH collects DD from the bus station.

Will post Cheese and apple dog biscuit recipe in the morning. Thought it was on here, but can't find the link. Our dog goes mad for them, but she is very bread orientated. She can hear the toaser go on from the bottom of the garden! Lets hope any burglars have got packed lunch in their pocket. She will pin them down immediately!

Night Night!

house_elf

Hi again.

Shaddowsfall - Recipe for Cheese and Apple Dog Biscuits

1 Cup plain flour
1 Cup Granary (or similar, or another cup of plain)
1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)
1 clove garlic (not optional for our dog!)
1 tbsp sunflour oil
1 egg - lightly beaten
1 apple - grated (the whole apple)
Any old cheese, the smellier the better apparently!

I add all the 'dry' ingredients to the processor and wizz then bind with the egg and the oil and wizz again. Add a little water if it doesn't form a ball of dough, but mine is usually sticky and needs extra flour. Drop this directly onto a heavily floured baking tray (saves on baking parchment). Dredge it in flour and press it out with a floured clenched fist. It ends up like a thin, bumpy pizza base ( 1/3 inch thick?). Score it into squares. (I usually get about 48 biscuits 6 X 8) Cook for about an hour gas mark 2 or in the bottom of the oven when you are doing sunday dinner. Let them cool on the tray. I find they are more crisp if you turn them over to cool. When cool break them up and store in a tin. They last about two weeks if I'm lucky!:rotfl:

The only thing she likes more than this is liver cake, but that makes me feel sick making it!

Have a lovely day all:)

Adamshefard

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Shadowsfall

Thank you House Elf for the recipe, the doglet loves apples, and bread, well and also cheese, so I'm sure she'll be very excited! I might try some with carrots as she adores them.

Hope everyone is doing well

Mine for today are:

1. Being able to visit this site and feel rather chirpy after all the great threads, ideas and enthusiasm it provides!
2. Hearing doves and pigeons coo - reminds me of being very small.
3. Having a massively stocked up fruit bowl right on my desk - plus it's stocked up with fruit that was on offer - yay!
4. Drinking tea from my birthday present - a Marilyn Monroe mug which is just beautiful... she's lovely.
5. Driving away from OH's knowing we'll be spending a lot of our lives together. Unexpected thought and very spesh.
6. A sneaky one... this last pleasure is the knowledge that I could actually write another 10 or so. Brilliant stuff.

Happy day to all! :j

Kittikins

Is it just me or does the doggy biscuit recipe sound good for humans too? Yum yum!

mollythewestie

Had a non stop weekend, so I am catching up still. (((HUGS))) to all that need them.

Here are my weekend pleasures:

Saturday:
- Glorious weather so decided to have a wander round Chipping Sodbury. Which is somewhere I had never been before, eventhough its only a 15 minute drive away. It is a little place with quaint little gift shops, butchers, bakers, deli's etc. It had lots of free parking too.
- Farmers market was on at Chipping Sodbury, so bought lots of nice things to eat.
- Going to Bric a Brac sale where I picked up a few books for DD for 50p.
- First BBQ of the year, (Actually, it was the first in 2 years as we didn't have one at all last year!)
- Getting the last of the fresh bread/rolls in my local deli for our BBQ, it is so nice that it sells out very quickly!

Sunday:
- Quick visit to my parents to drop off the dog for the day.
- Finally finding a suitable swimming costume for DD for our holiday.
- Going to inlaws for dinner, which was scrummy, My MIL is a fantastic cook.
- Seeing some family members at inlaws that I haven't seen for ages.
- Buying the highchair booster seat we had been looking for.

Monday:
- Another quick trip to my parents to pick up dog.
- DH working from home.
- Getting more washing dry outside on the washing line.
- Seeing dog happily lazing in the sun.
- DDs new skills - she can now touch her nose and clap on command!

wssla00

Morning all- a quick one from me! Welcome all new posters

heres mine for the day:
1. Not freaking out in the scanner like I usually do felt very proud
2. Finding a bus that takes me not only to the hospital but the the big shopping centre and to morissons and the cinema made my life exceptionally easier
3. Buying some astonish and cleaning my absolutely grotty oven- very useful stuff I couldn't believe how good it was especially for a quid!
4. Last week I bought some new rhubarb as mine (i thought) had died of root rot (it has been flooded for ages) well I was using up the water in the pot when a root came up and the rhubarb had actually been sprouting and is actually fine! Will plant it today somewhere to get it a good start once again- it was amazing!
5. Having some time this week to really sort through the house- looking forward to it

Enjoy the week all

Shadowsfall

Kittikins wrote: »

Is it just me or does the doggy biscuit recipe sound good for humans too? Yum yum!

Made me chuckle! :rotfl:

Caterina

Hi all

Kittikins, me too, it is NOT only you, that recipe sounds like the perfect recipe for biscuits to serve at an afternoon tea with savories and sweets! Might even try it minus the cheese - shame I no longer can do the cheese thing, I would have loved it cheesey-smelly! I used to be one of these people who prefer cheeses who bite back... alas never again due to intolerance (which seems to have started in my older age grrrrrrr).

Anyway, yesterday I did not come back to give my pleasures so here they are (and today's too):

Monday:

1 - My ex-boss came to my home to pick up the last bits and pieces of filing (which I did last week) and a few office things that belong to the organisation, so now I am well and truly off work (and feeling great about it!).

2 - My friend, who is also an ex-colleague, came with me and my ex-boss to the PO Box to pick up post (just showing her the ropes) so this is yet another duty I am not going to miss!

3 - Over 50s keep fit, hadn't been for ages but managed to do most of the class without collapsing.

4 - Back home, lunch with DS, tuna, egg and veg salad, we both loved it and felt very healthy eating it.

5 - When DD came back home from her work she helped me spring clean the front room and hoovered the stairs too. It is great to work with her, we have a great time and it does not feel like work.

6 - Dinner from M&S Italian meal deal , tagliatelle with pesto sauce (ciabatta bread is in the freezer to be used to make packed lunches for DH). Salad of spinach and oranges (separate from the deal but lovely all the same!).

Today:

1 - Early start, cleaned the kitchen immediately after breakfast

2 - I met up with my friend for a long walk to Lewisham in the sunshine, for our daily exercise, via the library in Blackheath where I returned two books and renewed another.

3 - Still with friend, in Lewisham, I introduced her to the wonderful fish and chip shop where for very little you can have a "small" portion of freshly fried fish and (real potato!) chips. We also shared a portion of mushy peas and were well full after this - can't imagine anyone managing to eat the "regular" size portions, they are HUMONGOUS!

4 - After fish and chips we needed a hot drink, which we got free with my M&S vouchers, which need using up.

5 - Another M&S Italian deal bought today, can always use more ciabatta bread for DH's lunches and will use some of the Pappardelle (very wide tagliatelle) broken in tonight's soup and some in other soups. Pesto sauce will make another dinner another time, with another pack of pasta from somewhere else.

6 - Planning dinner which I shall have with another friend who is visiting tonight: chick pea and fennel soup with broken Pappardelle, followed by lettuce and avocado salad (she is bringing the avocados, she shops in Deptford market where she always finds huge ripe avocados for very little).



Hope you all have a good evening xxx

Ladyhawk

Evening all,

Turns out that I was not hungover afterall... I have a kidney infection So have been tucked up in bed all day today feeling very sorry for myself. I hope these antibiotics start working soon because I have continued to feel worse as the day has progressed rather than better!

Caterina - I completely agree with you about portion sizes at the chippie. I can't even manage all the chips let alone the whale that comes with them!

1) Getting a lovely PM fom Sparrer - thank you so much.

2) Being able to sleep all afternoon

3) Getting some nice texts from the girls at work telling me that they miss me already!

Hmm... not sure if I can think of any more...

Have a great evening everyone.

L