Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

little_sweetie

Hi Pips, how you must miss her. Glad you've been chatting

Our son lives in Australia, has been there for 12 years during which time we've seen him just twice on his visits back to the UK I do email him but get about 2 lines in reply each time :cool: and we don't have Sky*e, unfortunately, so can't 'chat'....sigh... I think it's a case of 'out of sight, out of mind' as far as he's concerned. He seems to be having a great life...double sigh....

Pippilongstocking

Littlesweetie - hugs - we use skype as its free on the pc. To be honest, she's quite similar in her communication at the moment.

More hugs all round I think.

Folks were asking about the home made frugal sausages.

Its a meat heavy post so veggies, steer clear my lovlies.

Quite simple and delish.

Quite similar in taste to the Mc-version if you're doing pork and sage and with pork mince at £2-3 for 300-500g, making about 12-15 sausages.

A whole heap cheaper.

Sometimes we make them up as McFlower-muffins and freeze and store for the boys for brekkies at work.

They work out at about £20p a sandwich, much cheaper than the leading brand, but that's with free eggs and reduced muffins and really rubbish cheese - but you can use nice cheese puts the price up.

Pippilongstocking

Todays tipping down.

Not much happenning I have to say aside the stoves fired up and I'm doing a lot of cooking.

Hope you're all well.

A nice chat with DD who seems to be having fun.

Hounds are snoring. I think we're off to find the local farm shop soon (looking, just looking, although I've promised himself a pavlova).

Well why not.

Have a great day.

I'm sure I'll be haivering lots more later.

I did cut down a tree.

But I meant to.

Greying_Pilgrim

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I did cut down a tree.

But I meant to.

Stripes - nowt gets in your way when you've a plan eh?

All sounding good. Glad that DD is having an ace time And I'm glad that modern technology means that you both catch up with each other

Greying

rtandon27

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

...I did cut down a tree...
But I meant to...

was it "that" tree? - the one that's not good for the colourful flock?

Pippilongstocking

Aye loves THAT tree.

Thought I'd try a limb with the chainsaw, it's kinda addictive. Maybe I should be a lumberjack ......

DD in fine form, I love tinternet, MSE, Facebook and Skype for long distance loved ones and friendships.

Thank u all.

beanielou

Thank you too for a great diary

mum2one

Hope ur managing to rest your back tonight xx

Cheery_Daff

Morning lovely lass, hope you're cheerful

and :hello: to the rest of you! :hello:

((((hugs))))) must be hard to have dd on the other side of the world but you know she will have an ace time and will come back full of tales and adventures. Hold tight, she's a good lass, you're a fab mum, you'll get closer again xx

Giggling and dogs with pecked noses

Impressed by your list of edible foods! :j :j Mine is currently

courgettes (teeny tiny)
cabbage (ancient and nearly as tall as me and showing no signs of stopping)
purple beans - flowering
tomatoes - flowering
lettuce - lots! (first time I've ever managed to grow lettuce so quite exciting - I know, I'm rubbish!)
mint, sage, oregano, basil etc
chillis - small, no flowers, not looking promising
apple tree - one, no apples
redcurrants - in freezer, mostly stolen by maraudin blackbird (which is NOT in the freezer - I am not you!) :rotfl:
blueberries - nonexistent this year
blackcurrants - picked and in freezer

Not a bad haul considering my garden is about the size of a postage stamp

Have a good one today, whatever you're up to!

Oh! Sausages! I used to work in a cafe where they made this fab sausage plait thing, we used to do it at home with veggie stuff

Mix onion, sausage meat, sage, apples, and spread down the middle of a sheet of pastry (puff pastry?! Can't remember! Suppose you could make your own )

Cut diagonal lines downwards away from sausage meat, then plait fron the top.

Looks quite impressive cut into slices, you can do veggie version as Pippi suggests with stuffing or whatever and hide a load of leftovers in it too I reckon

Not that we eat pastry that much in this house (pah)

wik

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