Now that Pickle is six months old, I’ve been contemplating a return to work. I have been self employed for most of the past 17 years, working long hours as an IT consultant but I don’t think I want to go back to that life. Pickle is too precious to me to only […]
I know I’m very lucky in naturally conceiving and bearing a healthy first baby after 40. I’m recording what I did here, both for posterity and to remind myself of the hard work good luck often is founded upon. I put in a lot of work to conceive Pickle and on those days when
Over the last several weeks I’ve been experimenting with making yoghurt in a desire to satisfy my dairy cravings in a healthy-ish manner. I was inspired by the extremely straightforward recipe for doing so in the Nourishing Traditions recipe book which basically tells you to After a quick trip to the housewares shop to buy a thermometer,
I cannot believe how quickly time has been passing! I’ve added a couple of days volunteer work to my schedule and between those and my frequent naps, I’ve been reading and cooking, but not so much writing or commenting. I have some catching up to do. I had my compulsory booking appointment with the new,
Our furniture finally arrived two weeks ago. I heard the beeps backing up the driveway and was surprised to see they had an enormous truck carting a entire container on the back! In London, they had just loaded our stuff into a medium-sized lorry. We didn’t even have half a container’s worth,
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This week in the veg box we got a little bag of pattypan squash (also known as scallop squash). I’ve never seen or heard of them before. They look like little yellow flying saucers from 50’s advertising. I did a bit of googling to find out what to do with them and was uninspired until
It’s been a few weeks since I last posted and to be honest its because I’ve been in a bit of a funk. While its true I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas (I’m more “ho-hum” than “ho ho ho” due mainly to the commercialism and saccharine idealism of family life in the media) Mr
I’m not very good at preparing small portions, so we very frequently have leftovers. This is good when it is soup or stew or something that can easily freeze and be revisited some time in the near future. Unfortunately my potato salad is not a freezer friendly dish, so we had a portion or two
I have been missing my veggie garden and fresh herbs and Mr Duncan surprised me by bringing home a big bunch of basil the other night. How romantic! The problem was we didn’t have any of the mediterranean type ingredients that I traditionally use with basil. In fact all I had in the
While it is great to have access to a kitchen again, the kitchen here is pretty limited in its equipment – it has one pot with a lid, one pot without a lid, a frying pan and a casserole dish. Sigh. I’m reluctant to fully stock the kitchen with staples and spices as we’ll have