This morning , TBSITW came over. She was quite early for the farmers market, so we were in time to get chicken livers from a really good free range chicken farm. Having bought that, I bought more leeks to add to the Cock - a - Leekie Soup I am making tomorrow, also sausages and streaky bacon from a wonderful piggery place, just down the road. Then it was on to the stall where I could get lamb chops followed by the fish stall for a salmon steak. To cap it all, we sat down in the local park and had an ice cream cone.
I think it is easier to go behind anyone rather than ahead, when we can't go side by side (when I am on my scooter) as it is very easy for me to match speeds that way.
I have now made chicken liver pate, put it into three dishes and frozen two, putting the other in the fridge. I have also frozen the sausages, divided into portions of three and two double loin chops.
It was really good to have TBSITW there to show me a better route and to show me that I am able to go to the farmers market on my scooter on my own (though it will be better when I get the saddle bag for the back (not to mention the stick holder!!!)
I am going to go to the Church tomorrow and look for help to get into the body of the Church.
If you don't try, you don't get...
Showing posts with label Farmers' Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farmers' Market. Show all posts
Saturday, 11 April 2009
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Farmers Market with TBSITW - and after
I can't remember much about what I did on Friday This may turn out to be significant. What I particularly remember is going to bed and having a wonderful night's sleep, getting up, showering, getting dressed and finding out it was 11.30 pm!!!!! After that I crawled back into bed.
On Saturday morning I felt better but did not have a shower as I felt too tired.
Later on Saturday morning TBSITW came round and took me to the Farmers Market. I didn't buy much, but I always like to look round. We then went on to Asda and got some shopping. You may not remember that my kind neighbours left some marshmallows, so I bought Thornton's toffees and Rice Krispies. This is to make these wonderful krispie cakes.
We came home and had cheese scone (me) and carrot cake TBSITW) and had a good blether. TBSITW sorted out some things on my laptop for me.
The BEST thing was that she brought me a gift of Molton Brown's Naran ji room spray. Now she knows how much I like Naran ji. I bought her liquid soap and hand cream for Christmas, and - as you do - bought some for myself at the same time.
After she left I felt rather tired and sat down.
Later, I got up to make a cup of tea, and managed to have yet another fall, once again onto my sit-upon. Unlike the other day, I could not get up onto my hands and knees and certainly not up to stand.
This is becoming a bit boring and repetitive, isn't it?
A lovely lady from the County Falls Response Service came and got me up using her wonderful machine.
Still not feeling great so I fell, once more, into bed. A bit of a disturbed night, and did not feel up to having a shower, but I have had a cup of tea and 2 cheese scones.
There is something of an irony about all these falls. The Day Hospital was trying to persuade me to get these special pants with inserts to protect the hips. Two things were off putting: I have never fallen on that part of my anatomy - face, head, shoulder, arm, back, knees, tail end and the other is that the pants are terribly reminiscent of incontinence pants. If they want to protect me from injury from falling, they will have to dress me up as the Michelin man, or put me in a padded cell. I would not mind the latter too much - as long as I could have access to plenty of books!
On Saturday morning I felt better but did not have a shower as I felt too tired.
Later on Saturday morning TBSITW came round and took me to the Farmers Market. I didn't buy much, but I always like to look round. We then went on to Asda and got some shopping. You may not remember that my kind neighbours left some marshmallows, so I bought Thornton's toffees and Rice Krispies. This is to make these wonderful krispie cakes.
We came home and had cheese scone (me) and carrot cake TBSITW) and had a good blether. TBSITW sorted out some things on my laptop for me.
The BEST thing was that she brought me a gift of Molton Brown's Naran ji room spray. Now she knows how much I like Naran ji. I bought her liquid soap and hand cream for Christmas, and - as you do - bought some for myself at the same time.
After she left I felt rather tired and sat down.
Later, I got up to make a cup of tea, and managed to have yet another fall, once again onto my sit-upon. Unlike the other day, I could not get up onto my hands and knees and certainly not up to stand.
This is becoming a bit boring and repetitive, isn't it?
A lovely lady from the County Falls Response Service came and got me up using her wonderful machine.
Still not feeling great so I fell, once more, into bed. A bit of a disturbed night, and did not feel up to having a shower, but I have had a cup of tea and 2 cheese scones.
There is something of an irony about all these falls. The Day Hospital was trying to persuade me to get these special pants with inserts to protect the hips. Two things were off putting: I have never fallen on that part of my anatomy - face, head, shoulder, arm, back, knees, tail end and the other is that the pants are terribly reminiscent of incontinence pants. If they want to protect me from injury from falling, they will have to dress me up as the Michelin man, or put me in a padded cell. I would not mind the latter too much - as long as I could have access to plenty of books!
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Farmers Market
This morning TBSITW and I went to the Farmers' Market - neither of us really needed anything, but I put a little money in my zipped pocket, just in case.
So, what was the first thing I saw? A stall with wreaths and wreath frames. Not for me (the artificial one I have had for four years now). However I then saw a string of red letters saying "happy Christmas", perfect for my mantelpiece, and then went on to buy a couple of rather sweet figures in felt and pipe cleaners. I managed to pull myself away before I got too ridiculous, with just a little help from TBSITW.
Mind you the tiny rocking horse was rather sweet.
After that we went on looking. TBSITW bought quite a few things but I ended up buying some chipolata sausages, 4 scones and a stalk of Brussels sprouts.
TBSITW then came back with me and we had a quick look at a box from the gentleman who took me out to dinner. There was a Christmas stocking, but TBSITW has spirited it away, so I shall now have to be very very good because I do want Santa Claus to come on Christmas Eve....
She left with her shopping and she is coming back on Monday to pick me up to visit Best Brother
So, what was the first thing I saw? A stall with wreaths and wreath frames. Not for me (the artificial one I have had for four years now). However I then saw a string of red letters saying "happy Christmas", perfect for my mantelpiece, and then went on to buy a couple of rather sweet figures in felt and pipe cleaners. I managed to pull myself away before I got too ridiculous, with just a little help from TBSITW.
Mind you the tiny rocking horse was rather sweet.
After that we went on looking. TBSITW bought quite a few things but I ended up buying some chipolata sausages, 4 scones and a stalk of Brussels sprouts.
TBSITW then came back with me and we had a quick look at a box from the gentleman who took me out to dinner. There was a Christmas stocking, but TBSITW has spirited it away, so I shall now have to be very very good because I do want Santa Claus to come on Christmas Eve....
She left with her shopping and she is coming back on Monday to pick me up to visit Best Brother
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Farmers' Market again.
I got back rather late yesterday evening from the bridge class, and so slept in a bit this morning. I was just about to step into the shower when the telephone rang and it was TBSITW calling to remind me that the Farmers' Market was on again today and did I want to go?
Of course I did so I managed to get showered, hair done, teeth cleaned, bed made and dressed in very short order and she arrived to take me there. We did a quick stop at the bank first as I had less than £10. Of course, I did not have my cash card with me, so she withdrew some from her account and I transferred funds to her on our return. Because we both bank at the same bank, the transfer is instantaneous.
So what did I buy?
2 double loin chops, some local organic free range eggs, a shin of beef *** two packs of chopped bacon, which I shall fry and use in potato salad, some lambs liver, 2 lemon sole, some carrots and a cauliflower, not to forget a pack of four cheese scones, which we agreed to share.
*** I am going to make a Tinker's Casserole, which was in my recipe blog, but which Sage changed to use shin of beef and I thought it was an excellent idea.
The lemon sole were "whales", so I cooked one this evening and shall do another recipe tomorrow.
Of course I did so I managed to get showered, hair done, teeth cleaned, bed made and dressed in very short order and she arrived to take me there. We did a quick stop at the bank first as I had less than £10. Of course, I did not have my cash card with me, so she withdrew some from her account and I transferred funds to her on our return. Because we both bank at the same bank, the transfer is instantaneous.
So what did I buy?
2 double loin chops, some local organic free range eggs, a shin of beef *** two packs of chopped bacon, which I shall fry and use in potato salad, some lambs liver, 2 lemon sole, some carrots and a cauliflower, not to forget a pack of four cheese scones, which we agreed to share.
*** I am going to make a Tinker's Casserole, which was in my recipe blog, but which Sage changed to use shin of beef and I thought it was an excellent idea.
The lemon sole were "whales", so I cooked one this evening and shall do another recipe tomorrow.
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Farmers' Market
Another beautiful day today and TBSITW collected me and took me to the Farmers' Market. There were a lot of people there even fairly early in the morning. I took my "spending allowance" in one pocket of my fleece and a spare £20 in an inside pocket.
So, of course I had to break into my spare!
I bought smoked trout flakes, a salmon steak, on to two packs of lamb mince, next some flat beans and a bunch of white turnips, then on to a pack of scrummy pork sausages and some streaky bacon, a beautiful baguette and 4 cheese scones and a cauliflower At the end I bought a pack of raspberries and 6 assorted (white leghorn, Rhode Island red and blue (can't remember) eggs.
So we both took our shopping to the car and returned for a last look round and a locally made ice cream cone which we took into the near by park, where we sat on a wall - elegant as ever!
Then home to unpack, have a cup of tea and 2 cheese scones.
After I got home I telephoned the Halifax to see if my credit card was still active. It is so I asked for a new card.
Halifax 1, Marks and Spencer 0.
So, of course I had to break into my spare!
I bought smoked trout flakes, a salmon steak, on to two packs of lamb mince, next some flat beans and a bunch of white turnips, then on to a pack of scrummy pork sausages and some streaky bacon, a beautiful baguette and 4 cheese scones and a cauliflower At the end I bought a pack of raspberries and 6 assorted (white leghorn, Rhode Island red and blue (can't remember) eggs.
So we both took our shopping to the car and returned for a last look round and a locally made ice cream cone which we took into the near by park, where we sat on a wall - elegant as ever!
Then home to unpack, have a cup of tea and 2 cheese scones.
After I got home I telephoned the Halifax to see if my credit card was still active. It is so I asked for a new card.
Halifax 1, Marks and Spencer 0.
Saturday, 12 April 2008
Farmers Market
Up bright and early (well, early anyway).
Every picture tells a story, and if you had seen what my duvet looked like when I got up, you would seen that I had a restless night.
However things got better when the best sister in the world and le chef came to take me to the Farmers' market.
So, I bought a salmon steak (this salmon is seriously good) for my dinner tonight, a pack of pork sausages and some bacon bits (from a seriously good piggery - certainly famous around central Scotland), a pack of chicken drumsticks and chicken livers from a local farm, they are all free range, corn fed chickens, a pack of cheese scones* and a serves one quiche Lorraine, Isle of Arran cheddar and brie which I shall be interested to try and some parsley to round it off.
I don't know how I resisted some smoked trout - they were being smoked at the market and the smell wafted all around.
We were really lucky today as the sun is shining.
TBSITW noticed that I had lost the back of an earring, so she took the front part off for me. When I got home I found a back that would do, but, with shaky hands, could not manage to fit it on to the back of the earring. Additionally, I managed to knock the lid of the box which holds earring backs onto the floor under the tallboy
If you remember Watergate affair and the tapes of President Dixon when in office, an appropriate comment here would be (expletive deleted), which was a recurring theme of the transcripts.
* I had the cheese scones with my morning cup of tea on my return home. My excuse is that I didn't have breakfast.
While eating I felt the telltale signs of an impending cold sore on my bottom lip.
(expletive deleted).
So, now I have put the sausages into the freezer split into 3 bags of 3, also the chicken and the chicken livers.
Everything else is in the fridge and I feel somewhat full.
Every picture tells a story, and if you had seen what my duvet looked like when I got up, you would seen that I had a restless night.
However things got better when the best sister in the world and le chef came to take me to the Farmers' market.
So, I bought a salmon steak (this salmon is seriously good) for my dinner tonight, a pack of pork sausages and some bacon bits (from a seriously good piggery - certainly famous around central Scotland), a pack of chicken drumsticks and chicken livers from a local farm, they are all free range, corn fed chickens, a pack of cheese scones* and a serves one quiche Lorraine, Isle of Arran cheddar and brie which I shall be interested to try and some parsley to round it off.
I don't know how I resisted some smoked trout - they were being smoked at the market and the smell wafted all around.
We were really lucky today as the sun is shining.
TBSITW noticed that I had lost the back of an earring, so she took the front part off for me. When I got home I found a back that would do, but, with shaky hands, could not manage to fit it on to the back of the earring. Additionally, I managed to knock the lid of the box which holds earring backs onto the floor under the tallboy
If you remember Watergate affair and the tapes of President Dixon when in office, an appropriate comment here would be (expletive deleted)
* I had the cheese scones with my morning cup of tea on my return home. My excuse is that I didn't have breakfast.
While eating I felt the telltale signs of an impending cold sore on my bottom lip.
So, now I have put the sausages into the freezer split into 3 bags of 3, also the chicken and the chicken livers.
Everything else is in the fridge and I feel somewhat full.
Monday, 4 February 2008
Change
You would think that by the time you reached your mid sixties you would be quite set in your ways.
In fact the changes started earlier in my sixties when I gave up smoking (never thought I’d see the day!)
Apart from the smoking, I have come under several new influences.
The first one was the Farmers’ Markets, with all sorts of interesting produce and much of it organic. This converted me to the organic movement.
The next one, which arose from the first, was the vegetable box scheme. I visited the stall over several months before deciding to go for it.
I have always hated vinegar as my only experience of it was malt vinegar used to preserve beetroot and pickled onions. Therefore I knew I would hate balsamic vinegar when it became so fashionable.
Wrong.
After several years of saying “no thank you” when offered it, I finally was put in a situation where it would have been rude to refuse.
Wow!
At first I always had it mixed with Extra Virgin Olive Oil (by the way how can something be extra virgin? – It’s either virgin or not). Soon I used just the balsamic vinegar without the oil as a salad dressing. So there’s a major turn around.
The big change has come with the organic veg box delivery. You can tell them if there is something you don’t like (although that requires you to try something at least once).
I didn’t realise how, when I went round the supermarket aisles I tended to select the same old, same old, but here I was offered new things to try and found new things at the farmers’ market. I was tucking in to Jacob’s Sheep loin chops yesterday – they have so much flavour that they required no salt, and steamed greens can’t be salted, so that is so much healthier.
As regards the steaming of the greens, I had to buy new pans for my pride and joy, an induction hob - now there's another change in my sixties, although it was prompted by the fact that the flat was fitted with these awful old solid hotplates and we can't have gas. One of the pans had a steamer part, which fitted on top of the pan and was fitted with the pan lid. Don't know if that is clear but prior to this I had only these baskets which sit inside a pan.
With the organic vegetable box, I have discovered Savoy cabbage (I know it has been around for ever, but I had never tried it), celeriac, which is yummy, Swiss chard and so on.
Following advice, I have found the Good Housekeeping cookery book to excel on cooking vegetables.
I am going to check the ingredients for pork cheeks to make a casserole, having tried that once before, and also the ingredients for pheasant breast, the latter of which I shall make for this weekend. This will be my second cook of pork cheeks - if you can get hold of them they are truly scrumptious.
In fact the changes started earlier in my sixties when I gave up smoking (never thought I’d see the day!)
Apart from the smoking, I have come under several new influences.
The first one was the Farmers’ Markets, with all sorts of interesting produce and much of it organic. This converted me to the organic movement.
The next one, which arose from the first, was the vegetable box scheme. I visited the stall over several months before deciding to go for it.
I have always hated vinegar as my only experience of it was malt vinegar used to preserve beetroot and pickled onions. Therefore I knew I would hate balsamic vinegar when it became so fashionable.
Wrong.
After several years of saying “no thank you” when offered it, I finally was put in a situation where it would have been rude to refuse.
Wow!
At first I always had it mixed with Extra Virgin Olive Oil (by the way how can something be extra virgin? – It’s either virgin or not). Soon I used just the balsamic vinegar without the oil as a salad dressing. So there’s a major turn around.
The big change has come with the organic veg box delivery. You can tell them if there is something you don’t like (although that requires you to try something at least once).
I didn’t realise how, when I went round the supermarket aisles I tended to select the same old, same old, but here I was offered new things to try and found new things at the farmers’ market. I was tucking in to Jacob’s Sheep loin chops yesterday – they have so much flavour that they required no salt, and steamed greens can’t be salted, so that is so much healthier.
As regards the steaming of the greens, I had to buy new pans for my pride and joy, an induction hob - now there's another change in my sixties, although it was prompted by the fact that the flat was fitted with these awful old solid hotplates and we can't have gas. One of the pans had a steamer part, which fitted on top of the pan and was fitted with the pan lid. Don't know if that is clear but prior to this I had only these baskets which sit inside a pan.
With the organic vegetable box, I have discovered Savoy cabbage (I know it has been around for ever, but I had never tried it), celeriac, which is yummy, Swiss chard and so on.
Following advice, I have found the Good Housekeeping cookery book to excel on cooking vegetables.
I am going to check the ingredients for pork cheeks to make a casserole, having tried that once before, and also the ingredients for pheasant breast, the latter of which I shall make for this weekend. This will be my second cook of pork cheeks - if you can get hold of them they are truly scrumptious.
Saturday, 10 November 2007
Farmers' Market
This morning s. and p. collected me and took me to the near by Farmers’ Market. We all shopped separately and met up at the end for them to take me home and each move on elsewhere.
I bought:
2 packs of 2 pork cheeks
1 pack streaky bacon
1 pack bacon bits
1 pack middle bacon
1 pack “just plain” pork sausages (9 of them)
(Yes, that is what I asked for and that is also how they are labelled!)
1 pack chicken livers (just under 6 oz)
1 pack chicken drumsticks, 6 good sized free range corn-fed ones
2 rib eye steaks
1 stalk of Brussels sprouts
I spent just under £30 on this, but it is a serious amount of meat. I am having one rib eye steak for my dinner tonight and freezing the other.
Umm, I also ordered Jacob’s Sheep lamb chops and mince to be delivered and don’t have a price for that yet, so really I spent more than I admitted to.* I was told by a lady in the Highlands who has Jacob’s sheep that the lamb has a stronger flavour than ordinary lamb, more approaching mutton.
I swear by the bacon as being the best in Britain, and the pork cheeks and sausages come from the same source.
Now I have packed the meat away, mostly in the freezer (my nice clean freezer, with enough room to pack it all away the way I like. This involves soups in the top drawer, cooked meats in the middle drawer and raw meat in the bottom drawer.) I suppose I have to admit that every cloud has a silver lining, but what I wonder is why every silver lining has to have a dirty great black cloud lurking in the vicinity!
* (…and before anyone tells me “never use a preposition to end a sentence with!)
I bought:
2 packs of 2 pork cheeks
1 pack streaky bacon
1 pack bacon bits
1 pack middle bacon
1 pack “just plain” pork sausages (9 of them)
(Yes, that is what I asked for and that is also how they are labelled!)
1 pack chicken livers (just under 6 oz)
1 pack chicken drumsticks, 6 good sized free range corn-fed ones
2 rib eye steaks
1 stalk of Brussels sprouts
I spent just under £30 on this, but it is a serious amount of meat. I am having one rib eye steak for my dinner tonight and freezing the other.
Umm, I also ordered Jacob’s Sheep lamb chops and mince to be delivered and don’t have a price for that yet, so really I spent more than I admitted to.* I was told by a lady in the Highlands who has Jacob’s sheep that the lamb has a stronger flavour than ordinary lamb, more approaching mutton.
I swear by the bacon as being the best in Britain, and the pork cheeks and sausages come from the same source.
Now I have packed the meat away, mostly in the freezer (my nice clean freezer, with enough room to pack it all away the way I like. This involves soups in the top drawer, cooked meats in the middle drawer and raw meat in the bottom drawer.) I suppose I have to admit that every cloud has a silver lining, but what I wonder is why every silver lining has to have a dirty great black cloud lurking in the vicinity!
* (…and before anyone tells me “never use a preposition to end a sentence with!)
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