No, no, I haven't gone on a weird diet! We had homemade chicken soup for lunch, then I made two more pots of soup - I like to have lots of soup in the freezer when the weather gets colder. Yesterday Malcolm had cooked a piece of ham in the slow cooker, with lots of onion, apple and apple juice. This provided a big pot of stock for the first soup
Once I had brought the stock up to the boil, I added frozen peas, and simmered the soup for a few minutes until the peas were cooked
These are the ingredients for the other soup - parsnips, apples, butter, seasoning and chicken stock
I cooked the parsnips for about five minutes in the butter, added the apple - and an extra ingredient, a teaspoon of ground cumin.
Then I added the seasoning and the stock, and simmered the soup until the parsnip was soft. Once both soups had cooled, I gave them a quick blitz. Then I gave Malcolm a little sample of both of them ...... he declared them both to be very good!
I mentioned that Malcolm had another project for the remodelling of the front garden ........ we have never liked these steps in front of the lounge window (the middle section is actually a door)
so Malcolm is making new steps to stretch the width of the whole window using decking - this afternoon he has a trial fit of the supporting framework
The garden is looking good
except for this rather large weed, which had somehow escaped Malcolm's eagle eye!
The knitting update - I have finished the socks, except for the Kitchener stitch on the second sock
I've gone back to the Debbie Bliss book for this chunky scarf
It's a nice, quick and easy pattern
To finish ........ this is the bottom of an advert on the side of a van, which I saw in Hawick this morning. Is the estate agent saying that he is the only independent agent (rather than the property department of a solicitor, which is the more common way of selling houses here) or is he saying that he is the only one who works hard