I should have more blueberries than this. Last year I had oodles and gorged myself on them every morning before work. Having taken very good care of the bushes over the last months and having watched tiny white flowers turn into mini bulbous berries before my eyes, I assumed this year would be no different. But as the berries [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Blueberry Soup
Posted in Food, Recipes on September 10, 2008 | 21 Comments »
An Autumnal Harvest
Posted in Food, Recipes on September 8, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Autumn’s here. The leaves look tired and and are very slowly beginning to turn russet and red. It’s too dark to walk Marco at 6am now and twice last week the temperature dipped to 3oC in the early morning and I had to put on my woolly hat to go to the woods! Autumn is definitely here. Must [...]
Gourds
Posted in Food on September 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Two of my colleagues had a gourd growing competition. This is one of the competitors’ offerings. Very pretty. Think I’ll join in next year.
Working Girl
Posted in Food, Recipes on September 3, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Still busy, still knackered and still training for that bloody 10k. As a result of all this, I’m also still eating a lot of pasta. That’s no hardship for this girl though, I love the stuff and have a trillion tried, tested and adored recipes using it. The following recipe for Pasta Puttanesca is one of my all time favourites [...]
Spinach and Lamb Curry
Posted in Food, Recipes on September 1, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I’m pretty tired just now. So tired, in fact, that the other night I forgot what kind of car I owned and had to call a friend to remind me. How awful is that? Being this tired, it is very nice to have some ready-cooked meals waiting in the freezer for me to just defrost [...]


