I made cookies didn't I? I'm sure i did! Well the tin was empty again and as it was a rainy day i thought I'd do a serious batch! But before I'd even managed to get them into the tin 3 had dissappeared!
Ok..cookie recipe.
These are soft cakey cookies, not crunchy biscuits.
4oz marg creamed with 4 oz sugar
Add an egg, a few drops of vannilla essence, mix then fold in 6oz plain flour with a tsp of bicarb mixed in.
You're supposed to add choccy chips at this point,
(I use chopped up 30p chocolate to make chunks instead, about 1/3 bar to a batch) but I have learnt that they burn on the bottom so its much better to drop them on the top of the cookies before baking at 160 degrees for 12-15 minutes. In my oven they take 13 minutes exactly. They don't get really brown but i think thats my oven.
I made 50 cookies!!! Then I decided to cost them!
With Aldi ingredients it cost £1.71 for 50! Not including gas.
3 1/2p a cookie :) DS says they taste like big supermarket ones which cost £1 for 5!!! So a treat at a bargain cost if you ask me and everyone loves them. Jones the steam has had 4 already! OH has had 6 so far..They don't last long do they!
The little box is nearly empty!!
It doesn't look like this now! I like to make my menfolk happy...whats that quote..."Its like they're eating a part of me"..creepy but true :)
BBS x
Today I got called a lovely lady. That made my day! And it was by lovely Maurice who is 83 years young and really likes my potatoes :) He came on saturday and bought some and wants more for tomorrow. And he told me a poem he'd been taught by his father when he was young, and bless him he wrote it down for me so I'll share it with you too.
Months of the year
January brings the snow,
makes our feet and fingers glow.
February brings the rain,
thaws the frozen lakes again.
March brings breezes, sharp and shrill,
shales the dancing daffodil.
April brings the primrose,sweet,
scatters daisies at our feet.
May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
scorching round their fleecy dambs.
June brings tulips, lillies, roses,
fills our childrens hands with posies.
Hot July brings cooling showers,
strawberries and gilly flowers.
August brings the sheaves of corn,
then the harvest home is born.
Warm September brings the fruit,
the sportsmen then begin to shoot.
Fresh October brings the pheasant,
then to gather nuts is pleasant.
Dull Novemeber brings the blast,
then the leaves are whirling fast.
Cold December brings the sleet,
round the fire and christmas treat.
Isn't that lovely, and he must have learnt it seventy odd years ago. I love my customers!!
It must be my potatoes....
Look at the size of those little devils!! Two bags off to the chipshop tomorrow :) And I snuck four in the house for tea....
Baked new potatoes? Who'd have thought that was a good idea...not me...but the lovely lady from the chip shop said they were good, so we gave it a go...
MMM cheese...homemade coleslaw and beans :) Joy of simplicity.
And then there was the cookie moment...
White choc chip...smarties and....
Triple choc chip :-0 white, dark and milk choc...I make a batch of each on saturday morning...there was one left today! The boys seem to love the white choc and if it cools off in the kitchen at some point I'll make them another batch! Gotta look after the boys :) Especially as DS is now officially a trainee:)
Ah the budlea (badly spelled) Is out in bloom...and notice anything strange? Yep, purple flowers and white too. A few years ago Jones the steam gave me a pot with lots of small budlea plants in. White and purple. And being a busy litle fairy I forgot to plant them. They grew and grew, grew out through the base of the pot and became one huge budlea bush. Which is truely lovely with its multi coloured blooms. Happy accident :) And the flutterbyes adore it!
Well this little fellow does anyway, i think I scared the rest away!
I've had a little bake....cookies!! Double chocolate chip to be precise. I hadn't made these for a while so they are quite crisp (aka well done!)
DS hasn't complained and they are dissapearing fast! i also had a read of my old vegetarian cookbook. It was the first one I bought in 1990 and I still use it regularly. It is the reason I make great soup :)
I'd never got round to making the homity pies so I thought I'd have a go seeing as potatoes and onions are things we have alot of for free (cheapskate)
Pastry in my glass pie dish, 3/4 lb pots, diced and cooked, 1lb onions fried in 3 tbsp oil, 4oz cheese, tbsp butter, tbsp milk, parsley from the garden, couple of cloves of garlic..in a very hot oven for half an hour or so...
It was surprisingly yummy and OH ate his without complaint! And there was leftovers for yours truely for supper and lunch :D Be glad you weren't near me though as that was ALOT of onion!! DS declared me evil for serving potato pie as he called it with more potato...am I potato mad? Maybe!!
Look at the dress I found in the back of the wardrobe,
it came from a charity shop a couple of years ago. I loved the fabric and the 1940's style but hadn't ever found a reason to wear it. So I wore it for work...
Its cool and cotton, roomy and everyone who visited us asked why I was working in my sunday best!! I felt almost Amish with my headscarf on too!! Now I see why they work in dresses. And if I keep wearing it for work it will end up with the 'make do and mend' shabby look for WW2 re-enactment days. I do hate to look too new and shiny when we dress up!
Ah would you look at my lovely china plates I bought for eating cake on! Cake deserves a pretty plate :) 20p each :) (last of the big spenders!)
And finally...when we went on the last girls night out, Looloo said 'There's nothing you could do, or say or wear that would surprise me anymore' Well, I see that as a challenge! Wanna see what my naughty internet wandering fingers found?
Is it me or do I suddenly look 10 years happier? See that naughty grin? I showed Jones the steam and OH and they just stared...yes, maybe I can still surprise!! (Its a wig!!)
I deserve it after all the hoeing...yesterday I finished rows 17 and 18...then today I started on row 1 again!
Keep smiling :)
BBS x
