Monday, 30 May 2011

Happy home...

This weekend has been filled of delicious food, gin and tonic's with cucumber, shed painting and sewing for beginner's...

Mum gave me her Grannie's sewing machine - so this is the oldest treasure and I am certainly going to learn to sew now
Painting the garden shed undercoat....project
Tom's been making mini bruschetta's -

Saturday, 28 May 2011

alpine strawberry cheesecake (from the garden)

Guilty pleasure homemade ottolenghi cheesecake- weekend treat after cleaning out the pond last week with a cup of tea....! We picked the little alpine strawberries from our garden too!

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Making elderflower cordial



Today we made elderflower cordial in the garden in a big pan, firstly we picked the elderfowers from the garden then boiled a huge pan of water,sliced up some lemons,citric acid and sugar, it rests over night then we strain it through some cheese cloth and bottle it up!!!