......when you pay as much as I did for a top of the range blender (aka ERIC) you have to get your use of him!
Easy, he makes our breakfast juice, or smoothie, every morning and I enjoy it. Darsh does his fair share of moaning....and don't even mention Ben's enthusiasm for a glass of bright green juice!
But seeing as I haven't done any shopping and all I had was 2 apples out of the garden.....a day off it is then- and something else is needed for breakfast.
Yesterday Eric helped to make rose-hip syrup....
....not quite tasting as it used to when I was a kid, but it was great fun picking a bag full of hips yesterday, and what am I going to do with 4 jars of the stuff?...Charlotte.....want to try making a rosehip cocktail?.... Sara.....it tastes like it would taste rather good with vodka maybe? I have even tried freezing a jar full...just to see what happens.....you understand.
So, 2 windfall apples out of the garden, stewed, sweetened with rosehip syrup, wrapped in pastry and baked.
Served hot, with frothy coffee.....
......for breakfast.
What a lousy photo, I must stop using the I-pad and been too lazy to go upstairs to get my camera.
It actually tasted far better than it looked, and is quite low in sugar, seeing I have as I have gained a diabetic husband who is not too good at looking at his diet and likes to fill up on fried food and take-aways.
It is five minutes to twelve and Darsh has only just got up. Even Joe got out of bed (mine, not his) earlier than that. It is another beautiful day, and I plan to spend it in the garden.
Got my chair ready, I might even do some digging.
Just noticed Emily peeping out from behind my chair, she has had it far too easy recently, it's been months since I hid her and made anybody jump. Maybe Charlotte needs her to peep through the railings at the top of her stairs.....
I don't quite know what he's waiting for, but seeing as we have a steady stream of windfalls....maybe he hasn't picked the safest spot.
I think he's hoping I am going to put some bird food on the bird table and he is waiting for bits that drop off. If an apple falls he might get more than he bargained for!
If he reckons that the best place for my pastry is on the bird table, he deserves an apple or two on his head.
Still plenty of colour in the garden.....
.....and I just love this old, battered and rusty lamp that I picked up at a flea market way back at Easter.
Those tomatoes need to get a move on and ripen up.
Must try and get back into regular posts, I love having it as a photograph diary and realising that I actually do do quite a lot even when it feels like I don't do anything much at all.
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