Crafts and Life

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…

Crafts 1. Finish stitching Map of Durham 2. Finish stitching cat ornaments 3. Finish stitching The Hikers 4. Finish stitching Perfect Pets 5. Finish stitching The Aerodrome 6. Get at least the border area done on Green Man 7. Finish Woodland Sampler 8. Stitch Medieval Sampler 9. Finish stitching freebie…

Ingredients 1 tablespoon glutinous rice 1 tablespoon oil 1 stem lemon grass, sliced 4 small red chillies, sliced 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 tablespoon fresh root ginger, grated 460g lean minced beef Juice 1 lemon 2 tablespoons fish sauce 1 tablespoon fresh coriander, chopped Method Place the rice in a…

Well the weekend was ….. odd! After a late night Friday night (more Saturday morning!) we planed to go out, get shopping, lunch and then chill for the evening with an earlyish night and the back massage. Best laid plans and all that though, Dr Tempe went out to the…

Another item half done! I managed to get into town (with Dr Tempe) this afternoon and we picked up some essential oils – hopefully this weekend I can have my back massage (and possibly reciprocate) ad that will take me to 37 items completed! In the meantime I need to…

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…