Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Lemon_Tree

hi Pippi, i'm sure Peedie didn't mean to nip you and that he's more sorry about it than you are.

Keiss congrats on the job it's sounds absolutely perfect and wonderful.

Marru

Oooh found you!!!

Congratulations for new diary and finishing the writing stuff. :j :T

gilligansyle

Keiss well done on the opportunity. That sounds like it will really suit the way you want to go.

Hope all those heading north have a lovely time.

starnac

morning all.

Pippi on saturday I had a "sorry we couldn't deliver your parcel as it's too big" note pushed through the door. I thought "what on earth could that be?? Pippi said 3-4days" I looked at the note and on it it said Parcel Reference - Amazon. I ordered something from Amazon at the beginning of the month and one thing came broken so I asked for a replacement and sent it back. Got the replacement (not broken luckily) and now I've got another parcel waiting for me from Amazon :mad: what could they have messed up now????

Picked it up yesterday and was so pleased to see "Seren and Nicky" written on the envelope. Excellent reuse of packaging even if it did have me worrying all weekend Seren loves it thank you

NorthernLas

For Gill, a cake with grated potato! (for those going eeeuwwk, hold on it is gluten, fat and dairy free and YUMMY)

Cherry and Almond cake

200g glace cherries
3 med eggs
180g sugar
200g finely grated potato
100g rice flour (+ 2tbsp extra on a plate)
100g ground almonds
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

Filling: Sour cherry jam
Topping: icing sugar and 1/4 tsp cinnamon

Two 18cm x 5cm loose bottomed tins
1. Pre-heat oven to 180 deg C. Brush tins with veg oil, line with baking parchment and then lightly oil it
2. Cut cherries in half and toss in extra flour
3. Whisk eggs and sugar for 5 mins until light and fluffy
4. Beat in potato until well combined. Add flour, almonds, baking powder and salt.
5. Divide mixture between 2 tins and gently place cherries on top of each cake. Place in the middle and bake for 30mins
6. Once cooked, remove cakes and unmould onto a wire rack to cool for 10 mins. Peel off baking parchment.
7. Sandwich with cherry jam and sieve mix of icing sugar and ground cinamon over top.

(Adapted from Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartcake by Harry Eastwood)

Pippilongstocking

Lopplips in very quickly!

Dashing but wanted to say hi, will look back and respond properly later!

Marru nice to see you not long til you hear about that exam..........:) nice you've found us must pop over and see what you're upto, starnac you're very welcome, squizz the cordial was YUMMY!!!!! We're making more as we type and also trying the same recipe but with raspberries, even with the sugar for the cordial and the citric acid, at £3.15 a bottle for the posh elderflower cordial, its such a cheap and tastier alternative - thank you so much, I'm going to make more before the flowers go - its very very yummy - I may blog it later if I may, its a gorgeous recipe, but I'll link it back to that blog if you are OK with that?

Cheri etc don't worry it took me years of having the books on the shelf before I even read them, funny what we do and don't like eh? xxxx

starnac sorry for the confusion! but yeah to dd loving the parcels!

Maty loved the pine nut/cheese recipe and enjoy glasgow NL - thank for another veggie cake recipe I'm glad you're all putting recipe up here

Keiss - enjoy the holiday parcel came on saturday but OH stashed my post so I only got it today - lol thank you very much and be lovely to meet you next week, invade away! gilligan you're right what a great opportunity for her! (Hello to you too)

Cheery I'm always up for an invasion I even froze a bag of chopped aubergenies (20p each) in your honour, I'm thinking ratatioue

LT _ The dog did indeed look very perplexed when I ran around with blood coming out of my finger!

I'll look back and see what/who I've missed!

I'm off into local town today then attempting a bit of work in the garden and on webstuff from here, but might end up needing to go into the office we'll see. Hoping to save a bit of petrol

Put £200 to capital one
Put £200 to lloyds cc

Contemplating the rest of the money, need some for webstuff (I got the amount back from the lady ) and looking for polytunnel bits too

A fair haul of reduced meat/bread/milk yesterday - got our curry out for tonight, so far the foods gone down great with the visitors phew, that's a releif!

I hope you're all good today, dull here and a bit windy, but NOT raining, so thats nice

Tall ships were/are amazing, we've been watching them go past the house in the bay, gorgeous, keep thinking of Jonny Depp however, lol!

Went puddle splashing with lil nice yesterday, much fun and excellent use of wellingtons - she's already converted wouldn't it be great if you could keep the spirit of a two year old forever?

My random garden bunnies are still munching my veggies, I need to net the veg patch - worse things happen at seaI suppose, its nice seeing them dootle about the garden.

Will pop over a few fences later and catch up on what you've been upto

Cheery_Daff

<waves to pippi>

That wasn't a very quick pop! that was an epic! :rotfl: :rotfl:

:j :j to aubergines :j :j :j

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

<waves to pippi>

That wasn't a very quick pop! that was an epic! :rotfl: :rotfl:

:j :j to aubergines :j :j :j

I know, concise and me are not friends, I'm sure I've forgotten someone!

Yay indeed to visitors


Hope you're good and don't forget your bike if you can bring it

And, my little treat was a rainbow like the robin you gave me, but obviously not a bird, but a rainbow stained glass thing :T

redsquirrel80

Glad you enjoyed the cordial Go for it with the blog - the more people know how to make lovely elderflower cordial the better! Sadly all our flowers are gone now - the last few blew off - but just wait until the berries are ripe.. That blog is lovely too, not mine, just came across it randomly when trying to find something similar to the recipe I use (which is from the Forgotten Skills book they mention.. which is, incidentally, amazing). *ponders putting some recipes on own blog* hmmm...

Uniscots97

Morning All, thought potatoes were doing ok but one of the plants is turning yellow. I have no idea whats causing it?

On another note I have just had my first chocolate bar since my op and feel positively sick. Before my op I was a total chocoholic, now I can't bare to look at the stuff but half an hour ago i faniced a little bit of chocolate so I thought ok I'm getting back to being myself. But nope. No idea whats wrong with me.