Front door wide open, cables everywhere, yes, the mess signifies that the numpies are still with us!
But having been in the state of 'lemon'* we decide it turn it to our, and your, best advantage and so we are surfing the web looking for delicious recipe for edible treats to make for presents and Savoury Simple is a Blog that we think is fab!
Jennifer Farley creates the posts on this, the most excellent of blogs and you can / will find it on :
www.savourysimple.net.
With time on her hands, and with numpty builders who are quite dozy enough to go away for half an hour leaving our front door wide open, she is house bound and is spending the day zooming about on Savoury Simple in response to having received news of a new post.
WHO doesn't like the odd, small biscuit / cookie? Don't all shout at once and don't think that she's going to make them for all of you! These little drops of heavenly yumyum are one munch numbers, they're egg-less and very quick to put together.
You can and she does, change the spices and play about with that part of (many) recipes, she likes to add a crunch or two of chilli into a spiced biscuits and one of the grinders she bought from Mamy Sugarcraft on Wednesday is perfect for a savoury biscuit, for the ONLY ingredients in this little (refillable) grinder are Lemon Peel, Thyme, Bay Leaf and Lemon Oil, yum.
Another is their mix of Szechuan Pepper, Chilli Salt and Ginger. Holy Moly, that combination would be brilliant in a spiced biscuit!
So these are now on the menu to be made as are the traditional Italian biscotti from Prato, also known as Cantucci. I confess that she sometimes fiddles with this most fabulous of recipes, much to the many receiver's great delight! She's been known to add a little, very finely chopped fresh rosemary and lemon peel.
Don't throw your hands up in horror like that, you've probably never done it and so you don't know how very morish they are with these two additions but if no one ever experiments.. well, we wouldn't have Champagne, would we? Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
And two things that she sometimes adds to our much beloved chocolate salami are dried orange peel and barberries, which come from Iran and are always dried. She puts these two ingredients in with the dark chocolate when it is melting in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water, they soften and their two tastes very gently infuse the chocolate. Finger licking stuff folks!
Back to the numpties.. and what they're actually doing here today. The damaged tanking above the bathroom window was removed and, oh lookielookie, there's the main waterpipe which goes up and into the upstairs house! Its' sweated so the condensation is what has, over many years, caused the damage to the tanking which is situated inside and above our bathroom window.
Slowly but surely, damaged things are being repaired, they're all things that she's been 'banging' on about for several years but it was only after the very thorough surveyor, who came about three week ago, actually saw and photographed the damage and read his own damp meter's reading that the lazy freeholder is actually being forced into doing these repairs and about time too.
Yes, of course, she has photographic evidence of all the damage, she didn't work with Bovis on restoring The Savoy Theatre and Halloway White Allom on the BIG job in The Boltons for nothing.
Now we are waiting for five of the afternoon clock to come tick-tocking our way, that's when our numpties say they'll be finished.. hurray.. and she'll be able to get washed and dressed, she'll whistle up WW and they'll head out for The King's Road and jump a 319 bus up to Clapham Junction to our nearest branch of Lidl.
Almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pistachios and walnuts are on her shopping list, as are slabs of 70% dark chocolate and some ground almonds, together with a bottle each of white run and of vodka, it doesn't have to be the best make as it's for soaking various fruits but she always makes a big bottle with the Madagascan vanilla pods every December as it takes so long to become truly unctuous.. now that's an extremely good word with which to describe her home made vanilla essence.
So there you are.. and she must do a detour to go and drop a note through our Lebanese friend's front door, she has not answered a text and doesn't 'do' emails, her sight is not good but she would, we know, love to see this new exhibition which has just opened at the V&A museum.
Hurray, the numpties and their kit will soon be gone. Farewell, Adieu, auf Wiedersein, Goodbye..
GeeGee Parrot.
December 4th, 2015.
PostScript. *State of Lemon means.. if someone hands you a lemon aka a bumb deal or rap, then use it to make Lemonade! Otherwise known as make / bake some cookies!
But having been in the state of 'lemon'* we decide it turn it to our, and your, best advantage and so we are surfing the web looking for delicious recipe for edible treats to make for presents and Savoury Simple is a Blog that we think is fab!
Jennifer Farley creates the posts on this, the most excellent of blogs and you can / will find it on :
www.savourysimple.net.
With time on her hands, and with numpty builders who are quite dozy enough to go away for half an hour leaving our front door wide open, she is house bound and is spending the day zooming about on Savoury Simple in response to having received news of a new post.
WHO doesn't like the odd, small biscuit / cookie? Don't all shout at once and don't think that she's going to make them for all of you! These little drops of heavenly yumyum are one munch numbers, they're egg-less and very quick to put together.
You can and she does, change the spices and play about with that part of (many) recipes, she likes to add a crunch or two of chilli into a spiced biscuits and one of the grinders she bought from Mamy Sugarcraft on Wednesday is perfect for a savoury biscuit, for the ONLY ingredients in this little (refillable) grinder are Lemon Peel, Thyme, Bay Leaf and Lemon Oil, yum.
Another is their mix of Szechuan Pepper, Chilli Salt and Ginger. Holy Moly, that combination would be brilliant in a spiced biscuit!
So these are now on the menu to be made as are the traditional Italian biscotti from Prato, also known as Cantucci. I confess that she sometimes fiddles with this most fabulous of recipes, much to the many receiver's great delight! She's been known to add a little, very finely chopped fresh rosemary and lemon peel.
Don't throw your hands up in horror like that, you've probably never done it and so you don't know how very morish they are with these two additions but if no one ever experiments.. well, we wouldn't have Champagne, would we? Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
And two things that she sometimes adds to our much beloved chocolate salami are dried orange peel and barberries, which come from Iran and are always dried. She puts these two ingredients in with the dark chocolate when it is melting in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water, they soften and their two tastes very gently infuse the chocolate. Finger licking stuff folks!
Back to the numpties.. and what they're actually doing here today. The damaged tanking above the bathroom window was removed and, oh lookielookie, there's the main waterpipe which goes up and into the upstairs house! Its' sweated so the condensation is what has, over many years, caused the damage to the tanking which is situated inside and above our bathroom window.
Slowly but surely, damaged things are being repaired, they're all things that she's been 'banging' on about for several years but it was only after the very thorough surveyor, who came about three week ago, actually saw and photographed the damage and read his own damp meter's reading that the lazy freeholder is actually being forced into doing these repairs and about time too.
Yes, of course, she has photographic evidence of all the damage, she didn't work with Bovis on restoring The Savoy Theatre and Halloway White Allom on the BIG job in The Boltons for nothing.
Now we are waiting for five of the afternoon clock to come tick-tocking our way, that's when our numpties say they'll be finished.. hurray.. and she'll be able to get washed and dressed, she'll whistle up WW and they'll head out for The King's Road and jump a 319 bus up to Clapham Junction to our nearest branch of Lidl.
Almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pistachios and walnuts are on her shopping list, as are slabs of 70% dark chocolate and some ground almonds, together with a bottle each of white run and of vodka, it doesn't have to be the best make as it's for soaking various fruits but she always makes a big bottle with the Madagascan vanilla pods every December as it takes so long to become truly unctuous.. now that's an extremely good word with which to describe her home made vanilla essence.
So there you are.. and she must do a detour to go and drop a note through our Lebanese friend's front door, she has not answered a text and doesn't 'do' emails, her sight is not good but she would, we know, love to see this new exhibition which has just opened at the V&A museum.
Hurray, the numpties and their kit will soon be gone. Farewell, Adieu, auf Wiedersein, Goodbye..
GeeGee Parrot.
December 4th, 2015.
PostScript. *State of Lemon means.. if someone hands you a lemon aka a bumb deal or rap, then use it to make Lemonade! Otherwise known as make / bake some cookies!
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