Some of you wondered in your comments yesterday what kind of fruit was in cola (in the jubblies). I unearthed the box from the recycle ...... so you can see just what is in the jubblies - and I noticed that that there are even fewer calories than I thought, I had looked at the calories per 100g, not per jubbly!
I was interested to see that there is hibiscus in the jubblies, as when we were in Singapore, we popped into Starbucks one day for a delicious iced hibiscus tea. In the interests of equality, over the holidays we also visited McDonald's, Burger King, Subway and KFC ...... of course we had the healthy option menu in each establishment!
I had to pop into Hawick this morning, and took a rather circuitous route from Sainsbury's carpark to the High Street, crossing the River Teviot by one footbridge, then recrossing by another, in the hope of seeing a heron, but all I saw was a duck! However I did pause on the second bridge to take these two views of the river
when I returned to Sainsbury's, I handed in this pile of books. The shop has come up with a novel way (sorry, bad pun) of raising money for a local charity. There is a table of books which have been donated, and for 50p, you can borrow a book to read, returning it for someone else to borrow. The scheme has already raised a lot of money, and as the pile of books was somewhat depleted when I was in yesterday, I thought I would have a look through my bookshelves for books I know I won't read again
I have borrowed this one - I really enjoy the Inspector Lynley books, although I haven't watched the tv series, as not just the actor playing Lynley is wrong for the part, but the actress playing Barbara Havers is absolutely nothing like her description in the book
this afternoon I was busy in the kitchen, turning these ingredients
into "hedgehog", a delicious traybake, using a recipe I got from Meredithe. The bits on the plate are the raggedy offcuts, the rest is in the two tubs, one of which I will take when I go down to Longframlington tomorrow to see Anne, now that she has recovered from last week's illness, and the other tub is for Friday night (but you'll have to wait to find out about that!)
so, would you like to guess what this is?
the recipe came from here, as did the bottles. It is apple, cider and sage sauce, and according to the recipe it should last for two moonths (I think it will be eaten long before that, as it is delicious!). I also finally made some rosehip syrup, with the rosehips that we picked last week. Here are all the bottles, waiting for their labels
and how was my soup for lunch - delicious, with a spoonful of half-fat creme fraichhe stirred in!