Crafts and Life

Wow! Where is the time going?! Nothing more completed BUT I am well ahead with a couple of the on-going tasks (for instance only 16 more recipes to find! I thought 50 was a reasonable amount to fit in over the 1001 days, 121 in and 34 new recipes already…

Ingredients 3 tablespoon oil 1 large onion, sliced 4 cloves 4 cardamom pods, opened 6 black peppercorns 2.5 cm cinnamon stick 2 teaspoon garlic, crushed 2 teaspoon ginger, grated 1 tablespoon tomato puree 150g tomatoes, peeled and chopped 0.5 teaspoon turmeric powder 0.5 teaspoon chilli powder 2 teaspoon coriander powder…

Ingredients 1 Chicken (About 3 lbs in weight) 1 leek stalk 0.5 lb bacon 1 tablespoon soy sauce 2 tablespoon sherry 0.75 cup red dates Method Wipe chicken with a damp cloth and chop, bones and all in 2 inch pieces. Cut leek in half inch sections. Slice bacon thick…

Well I did a bit of cleaning and some stitching! So that is good news – this weekend we hope to bottle Dr Tempe's next lot of beer and to start off two wine kits (both country but both red – so I will need to label them so I…

Ingredients 45ml cooking oil 0.5 tsp cumin seeds 0.5 tsp black mustard seeds 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 tsp tomato puree 1 tsp turmeric powder 1 tsp chilli powder 1 tsp garam masala 1 tsp salt 1 tsp garlic powder 450g frozen, mixed vegetables 2 small potatoes, chopped into…

Another ticked off the list! I have re-read my wartime books (and am seriously thinking about doing some of the recipes!) On top of this I have done a bit of tidying of the list up and done some cross words and yesterday I sent some post cards – all…

Ingredients 1 Duck 6 to 7 pounds 1 tbs Soy sauce 1 tbs Plum sauce 1 tbs Oyster sauce 2 tbs Sweet vegetable sauce 2 tbs Brown bean sauce 1 tsp Hot sauce 1 tsp salt 1 tsp Honey 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice powder 1 dash pepper Duck giblets…

Okay still nothing else finished BUT I am up to 31 new recipes out of 50 and more post-crossing has been done, I need to get back on track with stitching as that is really the sticking point (oh along with my diet which seems to be going up not…

Ingredients 3-4 tbs olive oil 6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced good thumb sized piece fresh root ginger, peeled and shredded 1 bunch spring onions, sliced 1 red chili, de-seeded and thinly sliced 1.5kg/3 lb 5 oz braising beef cut into large pieces 2 tbs plain flour, well seasoned 1 tsp…

Eeep! I am up to day 102 and nothing else has been finished off! Mind you I am up to 29 out of 50 new recipes AND all my daily "stuff" is getting done so that is better than nothing! Hmm maybe I should contact the local flooring people and…