PEONIES AND RAINBOWS
This beautiful tree peony blooms every year and just as it comes into it's own, wind and rain come to destroy it. It's a big blousy specimen with such beautiful, papery blooms, but only for a couple of days, not long enough. I sometimes wonder about taking it out and replacing it with something that provides colour for a longer period, but I haven't got the heart to do it.
Later in the day whilst walking the dogs, there was the briefest of showers, then this.
Rainbows never seem to look as vibrant in photographs sadly. This one was a doozy! It quite made my day actually...like I've said before, small things give me such pleasure.
On the way back from our walk we stopped off at the allotment and planted our onion sets and harvested the last of the leeks and parsnips. I'm tiring of winter veg a bit now, roll on all the luscious salad veggies.
To use up my veg surplus, I made a mixed vegetable curry for supper, together with an Aloo gobi, just because the cauliflower was going over. I think the salads will be on hold for a few more days as they are now saying temperatures will be dropping and rain's on the way.
I'm finding it harder these days to eat meat and have decided that it's only poultry and fish from now on for me. Mr is still a fully fledged meat eater and I certainly wouldn't expect him to follow suit. He does eat a lot of vegetarian food and I'd say meat features at most about three times a week in his diet. I know the hardest time for me will be the smell of bacon cooking at the weekend, when we have a fry up, well, it's all cooked in the Aga, which is not strictly a fry up, but healthier. Most of the smell disappears up the flue, but when Mr. dishes up, I might have to remove myself to another room to keep my resolve. I have mentioned my breaking strain is that of a Kit Kat haven't I?
I decided some of my spices needed a freshen up, as the Masala Dabber I keep them in isn't totally airtight and the ones that don't get used as often tend to lose their pungency. I keep larger airtight jars of spices in the larder and decant them when needed. These containers are really designed for people who use their spices on the daily basis.
It's so weird that I have numerous books on Indian cuisine, which I love to peruse (cookbooks are my porn) but when it comes to veg curries I just love to do my own thing as you can't really go wrong. Lots of onion and leek, reduced to a caramelised loveliness with garlic and chillies, plenty of toasted spices, fresh diced veg and coconut milk, cooked for about an hour...yum!
The clouds are now gathering...I think my choice of a curry was wise.
Hoping the sun in shining where you are.
This beautiful tree peony blooms every year and just as it comes into it's own, wind and rain come to destroy it. It's a big blousy specimen with such beautiful, papery blooms, but only for a couple of days, not long enough. I sometimes wonder about taking it out and replacing it with something that provides colour for a longer period, but I haven't got the heart to do it.
Later in the day whilst walking the dogs, there was the briefest of showers, then this.
Rainbows never seem to look as vibrant in photographs sadly. This one was a doozy! It quite made my day actually...like I've said before, small things give me such pleasure.
On the way back from our walk we stopped off at the allotment and planted our onion sets and harvested the last of the leeks and parsnips. I'm tiring of winter veg a bit now, roll on all the luscious salad veggies.
To use up my veg surplus, I made a mixed vegetable curry for supper, together with an Aloo gobi, just because the cauliflower was going over. I think the salads will be on hold for a few more days as they are now saying temperatures will be dropping and rain's on the way.
I'm finding it harder these days to eat meat and have decided that it's only poultry and fish from now on for me. Mr is still a fully fledged meat eater and I certainly wouldn't expect him to follow suit. He does eat a lot of vegetarian food and I'd say meat features at most about three times a week in his diet. I know the hardest time for me will be the smell of bacon cooking at the weekend, when we have a fry up, well, it's all cooked in the Aga, which is not strictly a fry up, but healthier. Most of the smell disappears up the flue, but when Mr. dishes up, I might have to remove myself to another room to keep my resolve. I have mentioned my breaking strain is that of a Kit Kat haven't I?
I decided some of my spices needed a freshen up, as the Masala Dabber I keep them in isn't totally airtight and the ones that don't get used as often tend to lose their pungency. I keep larger airtight jars of spices in the larder and decant them when needed. These containers are really designed for people who use their spices on the daily basis.
It's so weird that I have numerous books on Indian cuisine, which I love to peruse (cookbooks are my porn) but when it comes to veg curries I just love to do my own thing as you can't really go wrong. Lots of onion and leek, reduced to a caramelised loveliness with garlic and chillies, plenty of toasted spices, fresh diced veg and coconut milk, cooked for about an hour...yum!
The clouds are now gathering...I think my choice of a curry was wise.
Hoping the sun in shining where you are.
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