Get a grip woman!

themadvix

It's looking good!

What do you do to prep your courgettes for freezing and then what do you use them for? 

Karmacat

Gorgeous photo, SL!  And I hope your bees stay safe.

foxgloves

Our pantry is looking similar & I'm nowhere near finished yet. I think I will have to get right in there & do some re-arranging. Even after that I think I'll have to start storing jars on the floor. I do love a full pantry though so I don't think my tendency to 'over-preserve' is likely to dissipate anytime soon.
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lucielle

I have pantry envy.  Looks amazing
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beanielou

Blimey, that is an awesome collection @Suffolk_lass.  

Merlin's_Beard

I'm mainly just jealous of your neat shelves, I have to be honest.

rtandon27

Ooooo - I have serious pantry envy SL - well done!

Suffolk_lass

Merlin's_Beard said:

I'm mainly just jealous of your neat shelves, I have to be honest.

That made me laugh so much I nearly choked!

@themadvix I make courgette soup most weeks in winter to have with a slice of bread for healthy, cheap, filling lunches. 2 onions, 2 carrots, a bag of frozen courgettes, fried in veg oil, sprinkled with herbs, a dollop of lazy chilli or 3 chopped and frozen chillies and a stock jelly, topped up with water, simmered for about 40 minutes and then blitzed. It is lovely and creamy tasting and sometimes I pour it in on top of half of one of those individual boursin cheese portions or swirl some cream on top.

themadvix

I remember you saying about courgette soup now, but glad I asked as that sounds so much tastier when a full recipe is given! Thank you, I shall be freezing some to try that!

Suffolk_lass

Well I have one or two theories of what was going on with yesterday's bread. It took all day to prove and then obstinately sat in the tins, refusing to move after knocking back - and had only really moved half-way by bed-time. So I stuck it in the fridge overnight, brought it back to room temperature and prodded it at a proving temperature before baking it. I think they are more like house bricks than my usual, reliable loaf. I should have discarded the yeasted starter as this was slow, and the yeast was out of date. Or I could have not mixed the salt through the flour well enough before adding the yeast starter before the sourdough starter. I also used cold water with the sachet of dried yeast. 

It's literally years since I failed with bread!

I enjoyed our supper of runner bean salad but not sure it was a keeper. I might do my own thing with it to make it more "us". 

Today I plan to process the giant apples (7; all bigger than your average supermarket grapefruit) - they are windfalls so won't keep for baked apples but they should bottle in my new wide-mouth screwtop K-jars. I need to redo the raspberries to as one popped open when I removed the band after sealing to clean the spillage from the neck before storing too. I also have room for one more bag of runner beans in my produce freezer so they need prepping and blanching too.

It is the first bee meeting tonight, so I've just cleared my plan for (courgette! TMV) soup for an early supper with DH. I'll suggest beef salad for a late lunch in an effort to stop him snacking all evening. To be fair it isn't all evening. It's at bed time, when he is loading or has just loaded the DW ready for me to run it in the morning on solar power.

Diddly squat financial update as we have spent nothing yet this week. I do need to edit my shopping list with Morries though - I intended shopping on Friday but not sure I really need to. I reorganised the freezer with the meat in and there were 6 chickens in there (2 shops of 3 for £10 I think - my hoarding instincts meant I bought them after the promotion was briefly removed and then reinstated). I think we will have roast chicken then leftovers for the rest of the week.