Posts Tagged ‘food’
Written by Susan on 13 August 2010
As part of our no plans week the children decided they wanted to do some more cooking. They decided to make a 3 course meal doing a course each.
They started off in the morning – Rebekah made bread and Ruth started off the Banoffee pie.
We thought we’d head out to the beach in the afternoon [Continue]
Written by Susan on 05 August 2010
This is a sandwich with all home grown salad.
First collect the sandwich ingredients from the garden. It’s our first ever cucumber, I’m very proud even if it is an odd shape and rather prickly. The picking can take some time if you get distracted by the clematis that is blocking the entrance to the bottom of the [Continue]
Written by Susan on 01 July 2010
On Tuesday I had about 14 children and a selection of adults and a baby at my house making ice cream. We have between bought into a science scheme called UPD8. There are different themed units and lots of activities, powerpoint presentations and worksheets.
We used the powerpoint presentations to look at some of the science [Continue]
Written by Susan on 12 June 2010
Our church is usually very laid back and informal but every now and again we have a “pastoral group” week. We sit in our groups and normally have to do some very silly things for example we’ve made palm Sunday models out of play dough and wrapped people up in loo roll (unused I hasten [Continue]
Written by Susan on 27 April 2010
This week Friday was Sunday. We were busy on Sunday leading the service along with The Eternal Flame and then Martin was doing the PA for Gospel Choir, so we decided that we would make Friday our day of rest this week.
A lazy morning was in order to begin with, late start and a cooked [Continue]
Written by Susan on 05 April 2010
We had a talk at church yesterday (Easter Sunday) which talked about how the disciples must have felt on Easter Saturday - the despair they must have felt at the centre of their lives being ripped away – but also that from our perspective we can look at Good Friday and Easter Saturday with the knowledge that Sunday’s coming [Continue]
Written by Martin on 14 January 2010
The girls gave us a voucher for a meal at Christmas which we cashed in today. They have given us the full restaurant experience and I think even Matt and Cat would have been impressed.
Starter was mini ciabatta pizzas, perfectly cooked. Main course of aromatic chicken with french beans and new potatoes, nicely presented and [Continue]
Written by Susan on 03 September 2009
Ruth and her friend started the day writing out a script. This is the longest piece of writing Ruth has ever done,4 pages long written as a proper script. They are trying to produce a filmed piece to enter into the Blue Peter competition and as such have been editing it down to make it [Continue]
Written by Susan on 13 July 2009
Here we have courgette mousaka with a side portion of garlic courgette ribbons!
Here we have the courgettes being added to the top of a lovely pancake, incidentally being cooked in my wonderful cast iron frying pan.
Here I add the bolognaise sauce.
and here is the finished item with cheese melted over the top. [Continue]
Written by Martin on 21 June 2009
Susan is happy today. Very happy indeed. Today Susan harvested the first courgettes of the season. Here is Susan. Here are the courgettes. [Continue]