Get a grip woman!

Suffolk_lass

Baileys_Babe said:

Fantastic to hear your stamps have arrived.

Our ice cream maker uses the same principle but is unbranded, we were very lucky a friend passed theirs on to us after deciding a single person with virtually unlimited access to ice cream was unwise 🤣 - it's bad enough with two of us!!

When possible we store the bowl in the freezer, we store the made ice cream in a large yoghurt pot inside the ice cream maker bowl 😉 - would that there was room...

Thanks for sharing your recipe and tips.

I have never made frozen yoghurt, have any of you? Is it easy? Any hints or tips?

Yes - the most important thing is to use a full fat yogurt like a Greek-style - I plan to cook a few blackcurrants 200g with100g sugar and the zest and juice of a lime (one lemon left and I want it for fish) then sieve the mixture to lose the stalks and blitz it with Greek-Style (I don't know how much because I go by colour) and then make lollies as I found the plastic mould for four. If there is any leftover, DH can eat it as Blackcurrant yogurt. If you have any blackcurrant jelly that would save time. I think my friend just freezes blitzed fresh fruit topped with Greek-style with honey so just a sweetened yogurt would work. 

In terms of tips, it does need to be sweetened or it freezes as hard as a brick. As I say, a bit of jam-jelly is good. I've seen a no-churn recipe for  nope. Too decadent with condensed milk and cream, no yogurt!

Baileys_Babe

Thanks @Suffolk_lass making frozen yoghurt is now on my list of things to try.

themadvix

Ooh yes, and finding some ice lolly moulds for it! Sounds delicious and healthy (don’t anybody dare tell me otherwise!)

Suffolk_lass

I might have some silicon moulds in my big river basket at the moment - I really wanted individual ones I can reuse and either cover or put in a rack (like for Dutch beer glasses) while they freeze (the lollies, not the Dutch beer...)

Suffolk_lass

My £3.87 refund from the milkman hit the account this morning and has already gone to savings and been deducted from the Grocery Challenge spending spreadsheet. The bill for next week will also be slightly lower as no milk on Tuesday which is in next week's DD, taken tomorrow. Also no eggs coming at the weekend, all because we are away for a few days.

Otherwise it's all a bit slow money-wise. My Village friend is going to pick while we are away. Just as well really, the blackcurrants are literally starting to leave the bushes they are so ready (and I don't have enough time before we go). Off shopping in a moment, taking my neighbour to the hairdresser as she is going out for lunch tomorrow

Suffolk_lass

Suffolk_lass said:

Today This week we need a list (too, TMV & Cheery!).

Start to get Motorhome ready - 

Check inside for anything damaged, seeping or leaking - both done - seems OK except the oil-filled radiator that leaked onto the precautionary tray
Me list

• • Repopulate stores we carry (a tin of tomatoes, baked beans and curry and pasta jars)- me
• • Make sure there is tea, coffee, salt, pepper and chilli flakes - me
• • Breakfasts
• • Lunches
• • Treats
• • Alcohol
• • Suppers
• • Dog Food
• • Is the bed dry? If not get the mattress out on the airer
• • Are the cupboards clean? - me
• • Do the plates, crockery, cutlery, pots and pans need to go through the dishwasher or be washed up?
• • Is the radio charged up? all done

• Tax it done
• Start filtering water to take drinking water away - me done
• Flush the freshwater tank with tap water, and let it drain through the grey water tank done
• Flush the chemical toilet - DH (!!!!) 
• Dust and wipe down inside - me DH did this
• Check the tyres, fuel and oil. Tyres are in progress done
• Maybe vacuum out the bit where leaves gather done
• Get the bikes checked done
• Make sure their batteries are charged done
• Check gas bottles done
• Pack step done
• Dog bed, pen done
• Pack fire pit and some wood

Garden

• Water and feed veg and pots - organised two neighbours to cover this
• Pick and freeze blackcurrants - organised two neighbours to cover this
• Check raspberries - not ready yet (Autumn ones)
• Rake up clippings
• Take builders bags of garden refuse to the Farm for burning)
• Maybe start the pruning (time and heat driven)
• Check the bees have room (add space if needed) NOT DONE
• Check Calor bottles (Propane/LPG hob)
• bit of weeding/clearing)
• 
  

Other

• Make ice cream done, in the freezer
• Freeze stuff to put in the Moho fridge - done
• sort out food for the week - making courgette soup for lunches - done
• Swap duvet for sheet? (check with DH)
• Jiggle money around (raid the EF) done
• Try and catch up on diaries on here - most
• Await response from JL re card transaction - need to log in
• Consider replacement flooring for lounge - ongoing
• Go through a box of paperwork (I want to cash in the cash ISA that is paper based) - need to find important paperwork - not done
• Take my neighbour to A&E this afternoon done.

That is enough for now - I may edit

Food list prepared. Oh b****r, clothing....

Got a thing of HRT from the pharmacy. Feeling very fortunate

Fortune_Smiles

Blimey! You've been busy 😁

Fortune x

Karmacat

Ooh, your list!  Respect  

Suffolk_lass

Back from our break - I swear I have washed every single item of clothing either of us possess over the last 2 days.

Still a seeping water main leak outside (since first reported on 27th June) - it is getting worse, bubbling up through three holes in the surface and running into drains. I actually had a satisfaction survey sent to me so sent pictures of their "job in progress" note with the job number pinned to a telegraph pole and of the standing water on the road. Soon there will be a sink hole instead at this rate. In the meantime we have had three emails urging us to save water. Ahem! All in favour of that but let's all do our bit.

Dialogue with a big-river seller yesterday included them sending a J.peg of where they left the delivery. Unfortunately (for them) this is outside a pink house, so I replied with a pic of our (newly painted) cream one. They conceded and it will be dispatched again. I replied with What3words to pass to their courier. It is 50 8 foot bamboo canes that we need many of, in order to deal with the runner beans that are on the ground because we ran out of unsnapped canes.

Harvest going well. Lots of tomatoes, cucumbers and chillies in the greenhouse, purple French beans, runners and courgettes in the veg patch. We will lift the onions this week I think, letting them dry before plaiting them. Butternuts and Pumpkins are gathering momentum.

We are having a small BBQ this evening with my cousin and his partner, just to celebrate our wedding anniversary that was on Thursday. We have prawns, good sausages and steaks to cook. I will slice the steaks like Nigella, I think. I have made potato salad and coleslaw (the latter featuring my shameless addition of two small chillies, finely diced, for a bit of pizazz!) - and I have sweet pickled some red onions in sugar and distilled clear vinegar. Just tomato and basil salad, cucumber, leaves, garlic bread and marinades to go...

Cheery_Daff

Hope you get a response to your satisfaction survey! What nonsense indeed.

Glad your delivery has been dispatched again though, grrr. I find what3words most useful out here - our postcode takes you to someone else's house, and while there is a sign pointing to ours before you get to it, plenty of people drive straight past it (even when they've been warned). Got sick of retrieving people - but what3words brings them straight here!

Excellent harvesting. I'm most impressed with your garden.