One or two boxes of large salad tomatoes (I like to put two so plenty of tomatoes)
2 large sweet red peppers
Salt, pepper, dried basil all to taste
Lea and Perrins or tabasco sauce (couple of shakes if you like spicy)
1 litre vegetable stock (I cheat and use two veg stock pots with 1 litre boiling water Continue reading
Hello again
I really wish I had the time to blog all the things that run through my brain constantly but somehow work has taken over all living hours. Continue reading
At present I guess I am posting these blogs for my own satisfaction. QT1 tells me its because I don’t post often enough and don’t promote the site. That is the hazard of being a working mother with kids!
So Older Daughter is winding down the days until she returns to University. Continue reading
I defrosted some blackcurrants from our garden (picked in 2013) two bags worth. I bought some cheap green skinned apples (eaters not cookers) from Sainsburys. Continue reading
Chicken and mushroom soup
I made this today and froze it ready for a future Saturday or Sunday when we need something warming after or before sports fixtures; I was also using up some leftovers.
3 small onions, peeled and chopped roughly
leftover scraps of chicken from a full roast chicken (supplemented by ready cooked chicken pieces from Sainsburys Basics range)
about 10 largish closed cup mushrooms (peel and rough chop)
1 and 1/2 pints chicken stock (or on this occasion about 1/2 pint home made chicken stock from a previous roast – boil all bones etc, season with salt, pepper and mixed herbs, strain, cool and freeze) and 3/4 pint of ready made vegetable stock pots with boiling water as I had no chicken stock pots.
Fry onions, add chicken, fry for a bit longer (stir continuously) add stock and mushrooms. Season to taste. Simmer on lowest heat for about 1 hour. Liquidise in blender. Cool thoroughly, bag and freeze. When reheating add single cream if you like it more like the tinned stuff.
Hello again, my apologies for being away so long. Partly due to having had 6 days away in Cornwall without the children! For the first time in about 18 years. It was certainly a relaxing and pleasant experience with plenty of downtime Continue reading
Just feel for me all you parents of teenage kids, Thursday is GCSE day and QT1 awaits her fate. Either entry into the 6th form at her present school or an apprenticeship because she didn’t choose another 6th form. We are of course all hoping for the former but then again she has seen an apprenticeship in media and computer type stuff which would be right up her street so we shall see….
I know that the summer holiday is winding to a close. Older daughter has less cricket matches (only 1 a weekend instead of two) and both pre-season rugby and hockey training have started for QT2. Continue reading
Saturday’s dinner:
Two 400g trays of leaner British beef mince (Sainsburys)
Red pepper (large) or 2 small
3 small onions
half a “family” tray of mushrooms
two jars of Lloyd Grossman Bolognese sauce (on offer at Morrisons on Friday)
tomato puree (for thickening the sauce which was actually very oily, won’t be buying that again offer or no offer)
enough spaghetti for 5 people (in fact ours was gluten free but nobody noticed and we couldn’t tell the difference) Continue reading
Today we went to a local “Motor Show” which was basically a load of car dealers trying to sign you up to “manager’s deal of the week” (ranging from £0 to £10,000 off – why would you write “customer savings £0” ? – that really doesn’t do the trick!) Continue reading
Suburban Law Mum 