I caught up on housework today - boring.
I put the halogen oven in the drier room. We had a sort out in June and got rid of so much rubbish we now have room to leave it out there permanently. I will try to use it more as 1 - it is more energy efficient and 2 - it does cook food a lot faster than putting it in the oven. It cooked our cornish pasties for tea lovely, was faster and used less electricity than putting the oven on.
I put the halogen oven in the drier room. We had a sort out in June and got rid of so much rubbish we now have room to leave it out there permanently. I will try to use it more as 1 - it is more energy efficient and 2 - it does cook food a lot faster than putting it in the oven. It cooked our cornish pasties for tea lovely, was faster and used less electricity than putting the oven on.
I also almost finished the Minion (pattern found here). Only I realised after sewing his goggle and strap on I had forgotton to put the white of his eye and a pupil in. Jenny help?!?! Can I pleeeaaassseee have some white and black felt? x
While we were out and about on Saturday we popped into a charity shop, saw this crushed velvet wool for 50p a ball. As usual I couldn't make my mind up so left it, went back later in the day and the shop was closed. Mark stopped off at the shop on the way home from work today and picked it up for me, thanks, that was a nice thought :-) Don't know what I will do with it yet, maybe a shawl? It is a lovely plum colour and will be nice for winter.
We have wanted to try and make homemade jam for a while now especially when we were in the caravan in the summer and went blackberry picking. Unfortunately being in the caravan we had limited cooking equipment. When we were in Hobbycraft on Saturday we saw these tins to make homemade strawberry conserve. We thought it would be a good introduction to jam making so we bought one to try.
Mark stopped off at mom and dads house on the way home today as we didn't have a saucepan big enough to do it yesterday. I went to Asda today and bought a punnet of fresh strawberries to add to it and a lemon to add the juice for the pectin.
Anais chopped the strawberries, Roman measured the water and sugar..............
Anais chopped the strawberries, Roman measured the water and sugar..............
....................we didn't add all the water as it seemed to be quite runny..............
...................Anais was patient and kept stirring it while it boiled....................
..................until it had reduced down. We put some on a saucer and put it in the fridge, when it came out the fridge it we tested it by running a finger through it - it formed a skin so we think it was ready to jar. We sterilsed the jars and sorted out the wax discs (wax discs bought from The Works in Melton Mowbrary how many years ago?!?!)
We had six jars and a half jars which we have tested and it tastes very nice. More importantly it has SET!
They have gone on a shelf in the kitchen. Next up we want to try some chilli jam, various chutneys, pickled onions and pickled eggs.
Anais came home excited she had used a soldering iron in D&T. She made this stick man.................
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