Thursday, August 7, 2014

On walks around Ballymahon and more grub

Cultivated bed by canal



"News Stand"




Happy Potentilla on the canal bank



Salmon and Spagetti based on a recipe from
"Food for one, tow and more"



Cheats Cheese cake with cream and berries -
shop-bought "lemon cheesecake" (not much cream cheese in this)
then whipped cream and garden berries on top




The green woods




Ash Tree full of berries





Gino's Gnocchi

I've not liked any commercial gnocchi I've had so far so I decided to try some homemade a lá Gino D'Aeampo.
It made basically from riced boiled potatoes blended into a dough with flour and an egg.

My ricer finally worked well on the boiled potatoes (it failed with tomatoes etc)




Yes I do use a ruler as I can't decide what is 1.5 cm etc off the top of my head, so why not use a ruler?


Dough divided into 2 equal portions then rolled into a sausage then cut into pieced
(the size of the pieces is a matter of taste I'm told)






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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Apples, Spider and Yarn

The apple trees have large crops this year, bending the boughs

Tree 1

Tree 2


The other 3 trees and the 2 pear trees have lots of fruit too

A spider decided to move into my glass candle holder for some reason


It was sent outside

Just to remin me of the had-spun yarn I made this July
(more on DroimAnUan blog)


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My Meadow Flowers early August

The Meadow boxes have been successful in growing wild flowers around the grassy paddock - first yellow ones then blue, red, and white  ones:






Hopefully they will spread their seeds around the paddock and come back next year.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Food and Flora; end July to early August

Butterfly in the house:

Red Honeysuckle

(i usually see only white)

There were some days of high temperature - especially by the front door.
Love the little guy in shorts

Blackcurrents galore this year


And then it turns into jam


Reflections in the lake

At Boora Parkland

Wildflowers:






Bucksome Ferns


Bridge




Sculptures Boora









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