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Thursday, 6 March 2014

Soup on the hob, Bread in the oven and Ben on my lap

Thursday nearly over, mind you I had to put the TV on this morning to check what day it was. 
We have had 2 days of glorious sun and today dawned grey and damp, not to worry Ben still wanted his walks, I have sewing, crochet and housework to do.

I turfed everything out of the cupboard under the stairs, didn't find an owl, or a wand.
Somethings have gone back, some have just gone and a few have been moved, 3 boxes of jam jars that I bought 5 years ago for instance. I bought a massive amount at a very good price, with the lids, and still hadn't opened these. 

I now have everything at close hand, no need to empty it to get the mop bucket out. Of course I now have my jars and lids handy for when I start preserving, Marmalade soon.

A quick and easy dinner, soup that I made yesterday and some bread made today from my AF bread mix.



I used 750 g of bread mix and made 6 decent size rolls and a 20 x 30 cm Focaccia. The Rosemary was from the garden and has been growing all winter. I cut the loaf into 4 as it was quite deep.

I had about 1/3rd of a cabbage in the fridge so sliced and blanched it and put some in the soup, the rest is in the fridge.


I added a handful of frozen peas and the same of sweetcorn, it was delicious.
No sewing or crochet, Ben's arthritis is playing up so he has spent a lot of time sleeping on my lap. This happens every now and then, I have pills for him and he is usually better the next day.

He is now climbing back onto my lap so I will just post and write again tomorrow.

              TTFN                                            Pam



7 comments:

  1. Did you mention sunshine? Not much sign of that in my bit of Scotland!
    Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger

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  2. Try Ben on Turmeric. Google it, great results on my 32 year old horse and my 14 year Labrador. Hope he feels better soon.

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  3. You must have the sunshine I had for a couple of days, it was grey today, I hope Ben is better soon.

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  4. Can you say how you did the bread/rolls please - is the AF bread mix easy to use?

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    1. I just weighed out 750 gm and added warm water and a good slug of olive oil till it made a dough, easy peasy. The mixer kneaded it for 10 minutes, I left it to prove and then divided it in 2 parts. I added extra oil to 1 portion and turned it into Focaccia, it only took around 30 minutes to prove and 25 minutes to cook.

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  5. There's nothing better than a dog sleeping on your lap, it just soothes your soul x

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  6. I really must do my under stairs. Many things fall over as I'm trying to reach something else and I invariably bang my head on the sloping ceiling. There's no owl or wand in mine either but it's an adventure just going in!
    Love from Mum
    xx

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