Sunday, 4 March 2012

Today I am ....

In the kitchen
Bread and butter pudding.
serves 4

Ingredients
  • butter for greasing
  • 12fl oz/350ml milk
  • a couple of drops of vanilla essence
  • 3 eggs
  • 2oz/50g caster sugar
  • 1oz/25g softened butter
  • 6 slices white bread
  • 2oz/50g raisins,soaked in hot water
  • rind of a lemon finely grated
  • 2pint/1.1 litre pie dish
Preheat the oven 180c.
Grease the pie dish.
Place the milk and vanilla in a pan and bring slowly to the boil.
Remove pan from the heat and leave to cool
Beat the eggs and caster suger together,untill mixture is pale and thick.
Strain the milk into the egg mixture,whisking untillcombined.
Butter the bread, cut into quarters and layer with raisinsand lemon rind in the pie dish.
The top layr of the bread should reach up to the rim of the dish.
Pour the custard on top, then cook in the oven for about 40 minutes,or untill the custared is set.
Place under a hot grill to crisp the edges.


Bottled up some more Ginger beer

 Made a Spinach (from the garden) bake

  A photo every day from my back door looking west.

 The vegetable garden after all the rain and now the sun has come out for a Sunlit Sunday blease come and visit some more Sunlit Sundays


Friday, 2 March 2012

Winter has come back for a visit, it is true ....


about the saying March comes in like a Lion but goes out like a Lamb.A photo every day from my back door looking west . now this you don't see that much.Yes all that white stuff  is snow.

  Just juicing some clementines have to drink that vitamin c


Looks like we have the same weather as Copenhagen the next few days.

Daniel took some photographs on the way to the hairdresser.