It’s officially autumn then … The cat has moved onto my bed!!
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Big enough, smart enough, rich enough! Motto for life and my own country!🏴 Single Mum with two spicy kids and a big dream.
When did everything get so monotone and flat? Why have I not noticed this before?
Doesn’t look very pretty - but tonight we canned up 13 jars of cat food for our ginger one! He’s actually looking really healthy on it - the vet calls him “well made” LOL. The winter fluff is also coming in thick and floofy! So - stinky job, but appreciated by the smallest member of the house
Got loads of chillis left over from my food collection. Got two bags in the freezer so debating what to do with this treasure? Whatever - it’s going to be a spicy day 😝
Grrr! Did all the research before my youngest went off to Uni - course, accommodation and support! Everything was going perfectly. Sadly one of his profs is an anti-vax, climate denying Trumper transphobe …. So looks like it’s going to be a long year!
Busy day here at the Croft! But I did manage to get one batch of dehydrating in. One bag of frozen peas - into one jar. I don’t do peas as a side but as an ingredient & I hate random peas falling out in the freezer. So a solution to one of the annoying things in life LOL
Teaching the bairn to make toad in the hole for Sunday dinner! My test yorkie is looking FINE!!!
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Fragrant hour on the Croft today … stripping a stash of thyme that has been run through the dehydrator. Not a lot of yield - but it’s another thing that doesn’t need to be bought from the crofts coffer! And the smell - oh my goodness!
Oh the horror!!!! Scotland is willing to come and teach you to ceilidh ??
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Last success of the day - 500g of basil salt! TBH there is more here than I will use in a year so once I am sure it’s very dry I will decant it into three or four smaller jars and gift them to my friends. It’s amazing stuff on a tasteless February tomato - really makes it taste like summer
It’s a bit of a production but today saw two new litre jars go into the store. A mirepiox and a holy trinity as the base for so many dinners over the next year
Oh my goodness - just when I thought I was on top of this weeks freebies a pal dropped these off! Thirty pears looking for a good home! Now I still have ten jars of canned pears in the Cantry … so I think I will throw these into the slow cooker and make pear and cinnamon butter instead!
Leftover chillis strung up to slowly dry in a south facing window. Got a freezer stash already so happy to wait for these to dry out and store longer term. But doesn’t it look festive? LOL
How wonderfully green is the basil salt going into the dehydrator today? Smells like a face full of summer!
Busy day on the Croft dealing with some leftover foods that need preserving. Basil will be made into basil salt. Thyme will be dehydrated as will the carrots and mushrooms. Chillis will be strung onto thread and hung in the window so slowly dry out for chilli flakes and seeds for next year!
Still processing the 15 kilos of organic carrots I scored for FREE! Top and tail. Chop into 1cm dice. Blanche & ice-bath then into the dehydrator till bedtime. 14 kilos will make a little over 1.5 litres of dried bits, that’s the big jar at the back. Now to keep an eye open for next project.
Yesterdays prep for winter here on the Croft!! Six coleslaw mix, 5 salsa, 5 lemon green beans & 3 balsamic beans. Oh - and a quarter jar of chopped carrots in the dehydrated soup mix jar. Hoping for more veggies in the charity collections soon x
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Local lady got these delivered by mistake. Amazon said - keep the wrong ones! Wrong ones are now in my store … about three years of tonic to go with the endless bottles of gin I have accumulated. MERRY XMAS ABODY!!! Lol
Taken all morning - but I’ve managed to find a deal to switch from Scottish Power onto a long term fix (Sept 2028) It’s a bit more - but less than the 20 % plus it’s going up in January. Why is this so fecking complicated???
Showing you how the free food I scored over the weekend ended up being just about a whole jar of dehydrated bits. So much easier to store on the shelf for cooked dishes through the winter & TBH you can’t even tell they have been dried Saving the pennies so I can have more people at my table x
Had an amazing night requesting on Olio. I requested one of each veg and got all of them as no one else requested them. So today is all about preserving this bounty for the winter to come! RRP was £22.63 BTW
You have no idea how “erratic” my cycle would have been if you’d have asked me to do this: 9 day cycle 30 day cycle 3 day cycle 77 day cycle Absolutely fecking NOT!!!
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.