Kitchen Poetry: 6 & 7

As it's Remembrance Sunday tomorrow I've decided to combine my last two 'kitchen poetry's.

Here's a forgotten corner of my kitchen - don't look too closely as it's rather dusty. We never eat the nuts, I think they've been in that bowl since our first Christmas here!

The next photo's are a bit of a cheat as they were taken last weekend. Nipper had great fun helping to make a cake:


But as usual as soon as your back is turned he's up to no good:


Here is the result - yummy!

Kitchen Poetry: 6 & 7

Kitchen Poetry: 5

Lovely autumnal comfort food from home - Lancashire Hotpot - made with carrots, leeks, courgettes, thinly sliced potatoes and lamb neck fillet. I'm sure this is the cut of meat which we used to call 'scrag end' when I was a child. It certainly looks scraggy but 'neck fillet' sounds much more up market - lol!

Kitchen Poetry: 5

Kitchen Poetry: 4

I just love the look, the colour and the feel of this wooden fruit bowl!

Kitchen Poetry: 4

Kitchen Poetry: 2 and 3

I didn't manage to post yesterday but here is Tuesday's photo:


My Weekly Shop (plus extra as we have guests this weekend, plus getting ahead for Christmas). I couldn't face the trolley hell of our local Tesco's this week so I got it delivered instead.

Here is today's photo:


I have about twice this number of cookery books. I hardly ever cook from them but I do like to drool over the photo's - I think this is referred to as 'gastroporn'! The picture is a tiny print of one of my favourite places - Manorbier in Wales - a fabulous castle and cove. The chicken is a Navajo wood carving bought when we visited Mr Earplug's grandad who lives in Arizona. There is a lovely pink heart shaped pebble which I found on a beach (though can't remember exactly where - most likely Wales), along with rose oil handcream from Morocco and Miss Muffett's pottery class cup.

(Good news: I had an ultra-sound scan this morning and there was a wee tiny baby with a beating heart clearly shown on screen - so far so good!)

Kitchen Poetry: 2 and 3

Kitchen Poetry

Toni at Simple Sparrow is having a 'kitchen poetry' week. The idea being that whatever's happening in your kitchen, be it poetry or chaos, just blog it. I'm signing up for the chaos as there's not much poetry in my kitchen!

This is the story of my life at the moment:


Peppermint Tea!

The cup and saucer is a lovely dainty little set, far too dainty for me, which I found in a flea market in Paris about 10 years ago. The handle is so tiny that you have to hold it with your fingertips. It's 'Porcelaine de Sologne' which has been around for over 100 years and is made in the Lomoges tradition (according to the good old www).

Kitchen Poetry