Today I was actually meant to have a heap of photos of me covered in mud running about, climbing over obstacles and crawling through water.
They were meant to run the ‘Burnie Challenge’ today but it was postponed due to inclement weather… Bad weather would have made it more awesome in my opinion! I am to stay tuned to when it will be rescheduled.
So I spent some quality time chopping tomatoes.
6lb went into the sauce – I am making bbq sauce (sorry – the only recipe I can’t share) I only made the first part because somebody ate all the brown sugar and didn’t tell me!!
I cut up more tomatoes and cooked them – Will find space in the freezer tomorrow or make some fancy pasta dish with them.
Then I went out in the (pouring) rain and picked more.
Seems like we are about at the end of the corn (sob) But zucchinis are still appearing – how on earth they suddenly appear so big is beyond me!
Damn – I just remembered I left all the eggs in the nest! I didn’t put them in with the veggies because some little charmer pooed all over them! Yuck.
I am slowly working through my list of things to do before Texas.
I am hoping to get a small notebook written for my friends daughter who is getting married and her (soon to be) husband with some house holding tips (clearly not the cleaning type of tips though haha)
But I have a good number of simple ‘go – to’ recipes I use that don’t cost much in time or money to make and am pretty good at budgeting and fairly ok now at gardening. 😀
Since this will be their first time out running/managing a household I thought maybe a small book on things I have found useful might be handy for them.
And I can include pretty pictures!
Anyway, its a work in progress!
I also ordered some ‘business cards’ I tend to make friends wherever I go (and invite them to Tasmania – haha, Jeff has stopped rolling his eyes about this and started inviting people all on his own!!)
I just figured it would be easy to hand out a card with my details instead of looking like a lunatic with no pen. (or paper)
Its pretty simple – and if anyone spots an error, don’t write to me about it.
Snicker. Its too late!
Hope everyone has had an awesome weekend!
Cheers!
Love the business card design!
Here’s a little hack to add to your kitchen repertoire – you can make your own brown sugar. Just mix white (or raw) sugar with molasses at a ratio of 10:1 … so 400g sugar to 40g molasses, or less molasses if you’re using blackstrap … around 25g. Drizzle the molasses over the sugar and mix with an electric mixer, blender or a wooden spoon and a good strong arm.
ooooo Thanks for the brown sugar recipe! I never thought to do that! Pretty sure I have molasses lurking in the pantry too!
I’ll be going into town today anyway so I will buy it this time, but I will have to try that!
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The brown sugar recipe is a reverse hack! First product when procession sugar cane is brown sugar. Further refining creates white sugar!
I’ve never really looked at the sugar process before (I love white sugar so try not to make myself sad by reading too much about how bad it is! lol)(All in moderation right?)
I love cooking with the brown sugar though!