We had a great weekend away before everything gets really busy again. I am on the point of finishing a few projects too, so I shall post about these soon!
On the banks of Loch Tay - the wind was so warm!
Mira has taken to kissing in a big way - people, toys, furniture. But I feel that something must be badly wrong if I catch her kissing a picture of Ronnie Corbett in the Radio Times.
This is my most favourite soup at the moment - it makes me feel so refreshed and comforted and happy. This is the recipe as served at my dinner party last night, but you can vary it a lot to suit your tastes too! Specially recommended for colds.
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Ingredients (serves 2)
1 crushed clove garlic
1 heaped tsp grated ginger
1 sliced mild red chilli (or chilli oil)
2 sliced spring onions
Lime juice (and rind if liked) to taste
1 pint chicken stock
Tablespoon of fish sauce (nam pla)
1/4 can of coconut milk
2 packets udon noodles
Sliced baby corn and mange tout
Handful of beansprouts
Method:
Lightly fry the garlic, ginger, spring onions and chilli on a low heat in some oil and add the veg. Stir fry for a couple of minutes, then add the boiling stock and noodles and boil for three minutes, or more if you like your veg softer. Add fish sauce, lime and coconut milk to taste. If you are veggie, you could try veg stock and soy sauce. You could use any kind of noodles, and if I want a stir fry I leave the stock out altogether and add more coconut milk.
Enjoy!
Spotted today in rural Perthshire!
We had a great week at camp - lovely kids and even the rain couldn’t dampen the fun. The team were totally amazing and I loved getting to know them all better.
Off to my sister tomorrow, back to work on Thursday.
I am not going to be crafting or posting for a wee while as I am off to Lendrick Muir. My talk is on ‘pressure’ and I really want one of my illustrations to be the mints in the cola bottle, but I suspect I won’t get away with it! However, I know a fair bit about pressure although no one has yet offered to feed me to a lion or throw me in a fiery furnace, thankfully…
See you when I get back!
I have got the car back now, and with it was a lovely surprise from my mother-in-law!
This is vintage lace, crochet cotton and silk she has had for 30 years she says! I feel some lavender bags coming on… I also want to try Nigella’s recipe for lavender cupcakes tomorrow.
Enjoying the heat wave!
Pearl Pod - knitted wire mesh, pink and ivory pearls, faceted crystals, rock crystal and sterling wire. I used whipstitch to bind the edges of the two layers of mesh and distressed it a little to finish.
Deryn of ‘Somethin Sublime’ has inspired lots of us online creatives to work through Mary Hettmansperger’s book, which isn’t yet available in the UK so its exciting trying to solve the project without it! I love the organic form of the pod and its symbolism of growth, fruitfullness, sowing and reaping. In fact I have so much mesh there may be a lots of these to come!
