Crafts and Life

A good day yesterday – and plans made for this week (I'm going to be a busy Tempewytch!), mainly stitching but reading about how to turn a heel, also some cleaning and filing (ack!), but one thing I managed to get done yesterday was to type up some more recipes…

Ingredients 450g firm white fish fillets, such as cod or sole, skinned, or a whole fish such as sole or turbot 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt or plain salt 1 and a half tablespoons finely shredded fresh root ginger 3 tablespoons finely shredded spring onions 2 tablespoons light soy sauce…

Ingredients 320g uncooked rice 1 tablespoon granulated chicken stock powder or 1 chicken stock cube 2 cups/400 ml water 1 tablespoon Sake 1 teaspoon light soy sauce 220g fresh or frozen peas, cooked salt Method Wash the rice and leave to stand in a sieve for 30 minutes before cooking.…

Ingredients 250g bean sprouts 3 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons mirin 1 half to 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger – to taste 300g finely sliced pork sunflower or vegetable oil for stir frying the pork 1 tablespoon sunflower or vegetable oil for cooking the bean sprouts 1 clove garlic, sliced…

Ingredients 1 tablespoon Jasmine Rice 280g minced duck 3 tablespoons lime juice 1 tablespoon fish sauce 2 lemon grass stalks, white part only, finely sliced 50g Asian shallots, finely sliced 5 makrut (kaffir) lime leaves, finely sliced 5 spring onions, finely chopped 1 quarter to 1 half teaspoon roasted chilli…

A good day overall! We went out to the Farmer's Market in St Ives and stocked up on healthy veggies (including some mustard greens and Mizuna!), then ventured into Waitrose to get the last few bits and bobs – I went to Boots and weighed in (good news there!), and…

Well the wooden recorder arrived along with the book and I hadn't ordered a starter book! Ther book I did order is more of a follow on one, so Dr Tempe got me a fingering guide so next week I can start on learning (or re-learning!) the recorder :-). So…

Urk – just urk, I have some type of fluey thing (snerf, siff, ack!)I can't find the colour chart for Winnie the Pooh (but thinking on I might be able to wing it from the pattern!) – I did start the Margaret Sherry Cat and I have ordered a book…

A nice successful day for me yesterday! I finished the first of the Freebie stitching kits, I'm a good halfway through another AND started a third! So Piglet is done, Tigger is started (Tom Mouse is upstairs about half done), still to do are Winnie the Pooh, Ed Hedgehog and…

So far so good! 40 items done and dusted, daily items ticking over nicely – what I need to do is really kick back and get the stitching done, oh and I want to watch the rest of the Gundam Wing dvds, that may actually happen not this weekend but…