Living on next to nought - is that the key?

:hello: Good Evening (coz it still is)

Well, where to start?

Right, first thing is that the 'starter' for the yoghurt is in the freezer. That's not important as such, but what is important is the affect of this diary - in helping to think round things. I have put the yoghurt in little ice-cube moulds. I bought these 'years' ago - probably from Wilkins*ns or P*undland to freeze pesto or something. They were used once and.......progressed to the back of the cupboard. I rediscovered them (was sure I had donated them to a charity stall last year), and guess what, their capacity is exactly a tablespoon - each batch of yoghurt (Hugh F-W's) recipe requires 3tbsps of starter. How cool is it that I can just turn out 3 blocks and away to go?

Secondly, someone has done the right thing. The missing keys - which were the catalyst for this diary - have found their way to a police station. OK, so all the locks have already been changed, and the cash spent, but....... the right thing has been done. And no, I can't thank whoever it was, as elfinsafleydataprotecktionumanroights prevents the finder's details being known to me. *sigh*

Thirdly, the gardening parental left half an allotment on my doorstep, rather than the 'few new potatoes....' promised. I kid you not, I had potatoes ('Swift' if anyone is interested), carrots, peas, broad beans, 3 Japanese onions and a cabbage. Oh, and a slug and a spider....... but as it's all 'organic' I'm not complaining

So my friends, tonight's tea has been..... *lush*. Crushed pea and mint (the only thing I have growing in my *garden* as yet) frittatas, minted new potatoes with carrots and broad beans. It tasted, well, it tasted, that's the point. Everything just had such flavour. I made the frittatas (don't know what else to call them really) in exactly the same way as the avocado custards the other day, using the pressure cooker. I've sort of costed it out, and the only 'bought' things, were; 2 eggs (34p), a stick of celery (5p) and 3 cloves of garlic (10p) - so 49p, with a frittata left over (with some spuds) for at least DP's snap box tomorrow.

In fact, and I'm NOT going to make a habit of this, I promise - I just had to show you......







That is DP's plate and no, I'm not expecting to get a career in food styling anytime soon :rotfl:

Today was also a NSD.

Anyway, today I am grateful for these 3 things;

- folk who 'do the right thing' - especially when you couldn't reward them even if you wanted to.......

- folk who join in - I've said it before, you make the difference.

- family.

Well, I will be back tomorrow and yoghurt adventures will of started. And no, I am not going to photograph it

Thank you for reading, I greatly appreciate it.

Greying