Between the Sheets, when you don’t have any lemons or simple syrup..
You use lime juice and ginger syrup and I think it tastes pretty good…
What
1oz cognac
1oz cointreau
1oz white rum
1oz lime juice
1/2oz ginger syrup
How
Pour all ingredients over ice. Shake. Pour into chilled glass. Drink
On Monday, we decided to walk. We drove to Craster and walked along the coast to Low Newton and back. It was 12km in all and the rain held off until we finished.
Scenery was amazing and Emberton Bay just beautiful. It was refreshing in all ways.
I’m gonna miss this kid (and her mother) and the crown…
Making faces..
With Mummy and ‘my crown’ which she allowed Mummy to wear. Mummy was very keen on the crown and even wore it in the street!!
Re-arranging the magnets on the fridge..sorry “making a tower of flags”
This is what happens when you have spare rocket pesto and a chicken to roast.
You know about that space between the chicken breast and the skin of a chicken? You don’t? This one..
You fill that up so that your chicken looks odd and green. Like this
Cover the chicken with foil until about 15-20 minutes before it’s due out of the oven to let the skin brown (don’t forget to stuff half a lemon up it’s insides too!).
It’s good, keeps the breast moist and if you’re not mad keen on white meat (that would be me!) it makes the best chicken, pesto and salad sandwich. Which I ate before I thought about taking a picture and this is why I’ll never be a famous food blogger…
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain…because, just because..
Today I am going here
Odds are the at the sun won’t be shining in quite the same way but I don’t care.
Providing it’s not pouring with rain there will be walks here
here
I will at some point eat some of this
Life will be good and I will get a rest..
Whatever, you have planned for next week, have a good time…
I told Ma about this cocktail and she promptly named it Kings Bissap.
It’s Kings Ginger, bissap, lime juice. It’s not too dry but is tart in a good way. This is another one for people who aren’t big cocktail drinkers but like the idea, for that matter it’s a nice drink for people who aren’t sure about bissap. (Also please excuse the photos as I was about to take a photo, the camera battery died and then I discovered that the other camera battery was dead and I only had the iPhone to take pictures with!)
What
1oz Kings Ginger
2oz bissay
1/2oz lime juice
1/2 oz triple sec
How
Shake everything over ice. Pour into chilled glass and garnish with twist of lime. Drink
Last night I went to the theatre.
I’m very lucky to live in London where a lot of good theatre happens. This year, I’ve made more of an effort to do more local theatre, not the National or stuff at the West End. This is mostly because of cost…I don’t have much money, it’s also because the Bush Theatre has new premises and I’ve made an effort to find out what’s on there. Generally, though I can be quite London-centric and not know about other theatre in the rest of the country, relying on the fact that often if it’s good it will get to London eventually and the sad truth that I can’t afford to see a lot of theatre in London so how would I afford to travel somewhere else (no I still can’t drive or afford to learn!)
However, I do follow Samuel West (@exitthelemming) on Twitter and it became clear that he was rehearsing a play in Newcastle. Close the Coalhouse Door was the play. So I looked it up and it looked interesting and it was on in May and Ma and I would be driving through Newscastle in May, so maybe we should look into it? Only to find it was touring when we were on holiday and we could see it in Richmond on 9th May. Tickets were booked.
At this point, I should point out that I am no theatre critic, I’m not great at defining (and then explaining) what I like and don’t like about a play. So please don’t look at me for any kind of knowledge or wisdom. That said, I really enjoyed this and if you are in or around anywhere it’s touring (click the link) go and see this.
The play, which was based on the stories of Sid Chaplin, is written by Alan Plater and first shown in 1968. The music was written by Alex Glasgow and it has been updated by Lee Hall, to account for the closure of the pits and the rise of the call centre.
It’s a funny play (a review I read said something about, “it’s soul belonging to the music hall”) , without self pity, it tells of the fight by the miners for rights, decent working hours, proper pay etc. It’s not hard to see the parallels with the current situation.
That said the play isn’t a polemic, although it’s upfront about the politics of the writers, it’s basically a hymn to a world that’s gone and ought to be remembered. Whether you agree with the need for unions or not, they were formed because capitalism, unchecked, treats profit as more important that people and people as disposable. The real question is, and the one that the play left me with, are we going to need them like we used to?
Jenny who I sent my foodie penpal parcel to last month, has a fabulous blog, takes great pictures and made Smarties Ice Cream, as she said, it’s not really cooking. It’s ready made custard, a pot of double cream and a tube of Smarties.
Luckily I think that ice cream is a food you can eat at any time, it’s not just for sunny weather (and a good job too given the absolute lack of sun, we’ve had so far this year!) I just needed an excuse to make it and Jo and Ms T coming over for lunch last Sunday was that excuse, so I borrowed Michel’s ice cream maker and away I went.
I couldn’t find Smarties (I know it’s shocking!) so used Minstrels but I’m pretty sure that you could sub any pulverised chocolate, M&M‘s (which are just less fun Smarties!), Flakes, even just plain chocolate. A tube of Smarties weigh 42gms so I used that amount of Mistrels but I reckon the ice cream could take a bit more.
It’s pretty good, not as good as Spurellis but it’ll do until I’m back in Amble…
On Saturday, we had family lunch.
After lunch we went for a walk. Well everyone except Oli, who went for a scoot, with monkey in the bag hanging off the handles.
He had a race with his Grandma
and told her that “I won” and then that “I still winning”…
He scooted towards his Daddy and made him jump..
He got off the scooter to play the drums on a table
He needed the runaround because he’d been very good at lunch.
Scooting
