It's countdown time. We're off on our hols later this week. I've just picked the apples & pears off the tree. We'll probably be going to the Pub this afternoon. PD is hoping to see us there. We'll take the excess fruit with us. They always appreciate the fruit for making desserts. They've even been known to cook some there & then so we could sample poached pears in chocolate sauce, for example, just by way of thanks. Some I've wrapped up to keep us going through the winter months. It doesn't seem to have been a good year for fruit. We had far too much rain & wind in blossom time. Even in August the gales were blowing the fruit off before they had chance to ripen.
On Saturday we finished the last of the Fox's carrots. We wouldn't want them to go to waste. He's still feeling encouraged to have another go next year. He's even thinking of extending his range of crops!
We're having our use-up stir fry for dinner tonight. I thought we'd use up some left over chicken, rather than prawns, for a change this time. It will be a right mixture. We seem to have a fair number of peppers, both red & yellow. There's a quarter cucumber in the fridge. We tried cucumber in a stir fry not so long ago. It was surprisingly nice, though you do have to dry it out a bit. Just scoop out the seeds. Salt it well to draw out the water. After 20 mins or so rinse the salt off & dry on kitchen paper. We also seem to have a piece of stem ginger & loads of chillies. (It's one of the things that gets to me is that you end up buying a whole packet of chillies, when you only want one. Chillies can stretch a long way.) Oh, and there's some spring onions & shallots. We'll also add a few extra veg from the freezer, probably broad beans.
That only leaves eggs to be used up. We have a half egg which will probably end up in floddies (small bacon fritters) or mini fish balls. After that it will probably be something like an omelette or a rice & egg meal. I'm determined not to leave anything to go off. The potatoes will keep until we're back.
On Saturday we finished the last of the Fox's carrots. We wouldn't want them to go to waste. He's still feeling encouraged to have another go next year. He's even thinking of extending his range of crops!
We're having our use-up stir fry for dinner tonight. I thought we'd use up some left over chicken, rather than prawns, for a change this time. It will be a right mixture. We seem to have a fair number of peppers, both red & yellow. There's a quarter cucumber in the fridge. We tried cucumber in a stir fry not so long ago. It was surprisingly nice, though you do have to dry it out a bit. Just scoop out the seeds. Salt it well to draw out the water. After 20 mins or so rinse the salt off & dry on kitchen paper. We also seem to have a piece of stem ginger & loads of chillies. (It's one of the things that gets to me is that you end up buying a whole packet of chillies, when you only want one. Chillies can stretch a long way.) Oh, and there's some spring onions & shallots. We'll also add a few extra veg from the freezer, probably broad beans.
That only leaves eggs to be used up. We have a half egg which will probably end up in floddies (small bacon fritters) or mini fish balls. After that it will probably be something like an omelette or a rice & egg meal. I'm determined not to leave anything to go off. The potatoes will keep until we're back.
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