I had just come through from having my shower and getting dressed this morning, when Malcolm, in his role as photo-op spotter, told me to grab the camera and follow him out to the garden. It was very misty and damp, ideal conditions to show up the many spider webs. Here are just a few of them
when I got in the car for my usual Monday morning trip to Sainsbbury's I noticed there was a spider web on the wing mirror, so when I got back in the car to come home, I took a photo of it ....... but not just the web, but also its reflection in the mirror. And if you look carefully, you can see a car with a red canoe on its roof - not a very nice day to go canoing!
I made the first pot of soup of the winter - although I think it is still officially autumn, until the clocks change at the weekend, it has been such a mesierable day it definitely felt like winter! As always, after taking this photo, I realised that I had left out an ingredient - vegetable oil.
parsnips, apples, onions, spices, seasoning and chicken stock
I chopped up the onions, parsnips and apples, and sweated them in a little vegetable oil. I added the spices and seasoning, stirred it well, popped the lid on, turned the heat down and let it all sweat away gently.
I made up the chicken stock with some boiling water, added it to the pot, and simmered the soup unti the veggies were soft. Then it was into the blender, as I like smooth soup ..... ever since I was little I have disliked soup with "bits" in it!
a quick whizz later, a big bowl of delicious soup, and a little bowl to taste
finally, in to containers ...... two double portions for the freezer, and a single portion for my lunch tomorrow
when I went on my road trip in Melbourne with Meredithe, Mrs Mac and Helen, we were chatting about all things Scottish that Mrs Mac had learned from her Scottish Granny. One of them was a "piece" ...... which can either be a sandwich, or a snack. When I was at primary school, we took a "playpiece" to eat during the morning "playtime" ...... the ten minutes mid-morning when we went outside for a break. It reminded me of a song about children in Glasgow moving to high rise flats, and finding that their Mum's couldn't throw them a sandwich ....... this is the chorus
Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat,
Seven hundred hungry weans'll testify, to that.
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan,
The odds against it reaching earth are ninety-nine tae wan.
Mrs Mac was delighted when she mentioned jubblies and I knew what she meant ........ so when I noticed this box this morning in Sainsbury's, of course I had to buy it!
when I was little, we didn't have a fridge, never mind a freezer, so we had to buy our jubblies in the "wee shop" at the top of the road, not buy a box and freeze the at home. These ones are the same shape, but considerably smaller than the childhood ones ....... but then at 27 calories each, I won't have to feel guilty about having one