Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It’s Anna’s birthday today and considering the fact that I’ve been doing so much baking recently I thought it would be remiss of me not to bake a nice big birthday cake for her. It would be an understatement to say that she likes chocolate so the only option for a birthday cake for Anna...
Plenty of Green Goodies coming from the garden at the moment… Served up with some minted lamb tonight which is currently filling the kitchen with a glorious smell as it roasts in the oven. There’ll be some roasted carrots and sweet potato too just to add some colour. And I’ve knocked up a quick chocolate cheesecake too...
Nice… Another batch of Bilberry Beauties.
OK, I know I called them blueberries when we picked them and blueberries when I baked them in muffins but they are in fact bilberries. They are distinct but very similar and it is usually easier to call them blueberries as people know what you talking about then, especially when cooking and eating with them,...
I’ve baked quite a few muffins lately so thought that seeing as we had picked blueberries on Friday that I would make Blueberry Muffins for breakfast on Saturday morning so that Anna could have a nice breakfast in bed. Rather than follow a recipe though I decided to make my own up as I wanted...
I’m not gluten free by any stretch of the imagination – I will quite readily polish off cake after cake and eat anything that’s in front of me, especially from time to time when I have a proper pig out! However, during a normal day I have been trying to cut down on gluten a little bit....
After a weekend of camping, the wet weather that we had endured on Sunday followed us north and treated us to another wet day on Monday. Anna had the day off, Morgan was off school So I took the day off as well. After some chores we had a breakfast of toast smothered in delicious...
After chores and work this morning then a little snorkel with Morgan in Borth, followed by lunch, I couldn’t resist a bit of baking ready for a very British afternoon tea. Mmm, freshly baked scones with strawberry jam and cream. Unfortunately we didn’t have any clotted cream so I had to make do with squirty cream....
Following on from my post yesterday about letting my diet slip a little, this doesn’t really help matters! It’s a banana and chocolate cake that I baked yesterday to use up some bananas that we had left over from the Scout camp. Trouble is it only actually used 2 bananas which is fine, but the...
On the way to Devils Bridge on Sunday Morgan informed me that it was National Baking Day, (in fact I think it is National Baking Week), so once we got back from Devils Bridge in the afternoon there was nothing for it but to do some baking… I know, I know, we should of had plenty of...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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