Miss Macy has gone. Back to Dingle Dangle with her boy friend Scruff.
Gracie has been quite sad. She doesn’t like sleeping alone, or being alone. She is going to get a bit of a shock next week when D goes back to work. At the moment she is lying in [...]
One of the few edible items in the canteen at work are the scones they make. I have had part of the recipe scribbled on a post it note for a few years. I realised when I was making them that the recipe is incomplete (perhaps the catering staff are keeping the recipe [...]
Oat Shortbread
Originally uploaded by ZMB.
Recipe from the side of my packet of Speedicook Porridge.
Ingredients
250g/80z butter
125g/4oz caster sugar
125g/4oz plain flour
325g/11oz Speedicook porridge oats
Pinch of baking soda
Method
Cream the butter and sugar well. Add flour and baking soda and mix, then add Speedicook. Roll out thinly, cut into rounds and bake in oven at 180C/350F or Gas Mark [...]
Here is a tale which I hope you will all heed - be very careful when handling sharp knives.
My beloved has got himself a sharp knife for working with wood. I am generally early to bed and D stays up a while whittling sticks. He has been making a bow drill for making [...]
Miss Macy Moriarty has been staying with us for a couple of months. Sadly, she will be heading home to Co Kerry sometime soon as her owners are coming back from their holiday adventure. We will all miss her very much. Gracie will be totally miserable.
We have made her a jumper, from [...]
Serves 4 as part of a balanced Indian meal
By Cyrus Todiwala
Published: The Sunday Independent, 05 February 2006
Rasam is a very healthy soup from south India, made in many different ways but usually with lentils. It forms a vital part of the meal and is sipped both to add flavour and aid digestion: the spices help [...]
This blog is the result of too many pieces of paper and magazines lying around my home; you know how sometimes someone gives you a recipe and you end up with a pile of loose paper. Here I will attempt to store and organise a few of these scraps.
Pancakes
(from The Irish News 28 February [...]
Recently I heard a story about a woman who is so cleanliness and neatness obsessed that she knits a brand new cardigan every few weeks as she can’t stand it when her garments start to ‘ball’. She knits exactly the same cardigan over and over again!
I still haven’t finished knitting my scarf but I [...]
