Crafts and Life

The beer section of the title come from the beer bottles 🙂 Ota and J very kindly gave Dr Tempe some beer for Yule in a flip top bottle, seeing as Dr Tempe a) enjoyed the beer very much (thank you Ota!) and b) is brewing his own he thought…

Ingredients 30g/1oz unsalted butter ½ tsp caraway seeds 30g/1oz plain flour 500ml/17fl oz full-fat milk 100g/3½oz cream cheese salt and freshly ground black pepper ½ onion, peeled, finely chopped 130g/4½oz canned dolphin-friendly tuna, drained, flaked 160g/5½oz pasta (such as macaroni, penne or fusilli), cooked according to packet instructions, drained 60-80g…

Ingredients 2 onions 300 g/10 oz carrots 1 kg/2 lb 4 oz potatoes 450 /1 lb lean minced beef 2 beef stock cubes 400g baked beans splash of Worcestershire sauce handful of roughly chopped parsley Method Cut each onion into 8 wedges. Roughly chop the carrots and cut the potatoes…

Ingredients 2 large eggs 0.5 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 2 tbs vegetable oil salt to taste Method Stir together the eggs, flour, vegetable oil and salt. Drop them, 0.5 teaspoon at a time, into salted boiling water and cook for 3 minutes. Taken from Real Stew bu Clifford A Wright

Ingredients 2 tbs unsalted butter 1 4lb chicken cut into serving pieces 1 small yellow onion, chopped 0.25 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 0.75 lb celeriac, peeled and cubed 2 parsley roots, peeled and cubed 1 lb carrots, sliced 10 small white onions, peeled 10 black peppercorns 1 bay leaf 1.5…

The 101 is still going well but I need to get some of the stitching goals finished off and quickly, with that in mind I hope to finish the RCOs before the end of January and then really crack on with Perfect Pets and Durham (Perfect Pets can be worked…

Various shots of Toby now he is full grown! One of course of a Cairn Terrier in his natural habitat (the snow LOL), and of course the follow on being a Cairn Terrier snoozing in front of a roaring fire. The one of Toby eating is because Dr Tempe added…

Going backwards in time from today! A close up of his furryness, another shot of me with me (showing how much bigger he has got!), a shot from earlier this week (possibly last weekend), showing him sitting ice and upright (and by the beer cases *cough*!) and finally a couple…

2 tins chickpeas, drained 1 small onion, peeled and diced 1 tbs Madras curry paste 200 ml tin chopped tomatoes 200 ml vegetable stock 0.5 bunch fresh coriander, roughly chopped 25 ml vegetable oil 150g Total 2% Greek Yoghurt 2 garlic cloves, crushed Heat the oil in a thick bottomed…

I managed to finish off the book of crosswords yesterday which means that 59 items are completed on the list and I am not through the first year yet! Next items on the list I want to clear are some of the stitching and using the spice holder (yum –…