Tuesday 28 April 2015

Time Spent In The Kitchen

Trying to shake off the doldrums I spent the morning in the kitchen
First up was some Peanut Butter
 I do like peanut butter, this is a staple I now make it cost me 95p for 441grm to make my own
I have mentioned before how easy it is to make, some roasted salted peanuts throw them in the food processor and blitz them down add some sunflower oil small amounts at a time while continuing to blitz until you get the texture you want I also add 2 tsp of sugar, that's all there is to it. I usually buy the value peanuts.
Next up in the kitchen was some yogurt
I use a Bio Culture to make the yogurt
They cost £2 a sachet that makes 1lt of yogurt (7 pots) 1 pot I keep back for making the next batch and continue like this for 4 months, making a batch a week so roughly works out roughly 2p a pot add on the cost of milk 25p 1lt yogurt works out 7p a pot, that's a good price for Bio Yogurt.
Now I don't like plain yogurt so I made some Blueberry sauce to go with it
Each of these pots is 2/3 servings, I used frozen blueberries, 2 cups of frozen fruit to 1/2 cup of sugar and a dash of lemon juice simmer together for 10 mins do not boil. (can be frozen)
I did buy in some frozen raspberries as well roughly it works out approx 17p for a double serving of fruit sauce to go with the yogurt, this yogurt and fruit sauce taste like the fruit corners you get, that cost more than 31p for 2.
My last bit of time spent in the kitchen was spent  making Wild Garlic Pesto
  A bunch of wild garlic a small bunch of parsley from the garden a hand full of pine nuts and a few splashes of olive oil, all blitzed up together put in a jar and is now in the fridge, I will use some this week end with some pasta that we will have with some salmon.

I did spend a bit of time in the greenhouse as well
potting on squash and pumpkins, the melons need a bit longer before they move on likewise with the cucumbers. I also planted out the peppers and chillies in the poly tunnel. 
I have candled the duck eggs in the incubator 5 out of the 6 look viable but will give number 6 another check at the week-end before discarding.
A good productive day all round.

20 comments:

  1. Sounds like a very productive day! I hope that you are feeling better today. xx

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    1. I am pulling myself up just one of those things :-)

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  2. Sad to hear you are still blue, a great productive day for you in the kitchen. You really do intent to live the good life, making so many things for yourself. Your plants look very healthy, mu cucumbers are really behind, but I hope they catch up in the next few weeks.

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    1. My cucumbers have only be up for a week there is plenty of time for things to catch up :-)

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  3. That is productive! I've fallen out of the habit of making yohurt but I love the taste of homemade, we used to just use the easiyo pot and add milk and powdered milk to make yohurt, great with homemade jam!
    Blinking frost had a few plants in the greenhouse Sunday night, it was harder than I was expecting so a few things have suffered. I need to leave it a couple of day to see what comes back. I'll be wearing a black arm band if many suffer!

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    1. touch wood we havent had a frost problem think we are too high up, I hope you havent lost too much its a real bummer when something like that happens :-)

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  4. I missed your day before yesterday post, sorry to hear you were a bit down, hope today is much better. You have tackled a lot since you moved. Maybe a day just smelling the roses would sort things out!.
    I have yet to find Ramsons anywhere in Suffolk - too dry I think. That peanut butter would save me a fortune but I buy it without salt and sugar so couldn't use salted peanuts. I shall have to check the price of raw peanuts.

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    1. you can do the same with cashews as well :-)

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  5. I might have to give the peanut butter a go although I'm not sure my mixer is butch enough!! You sound to have achieved a lot despite still feeling a little down. I hope you feel better soon x

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    1. They were only little jobs didnt take long :-)

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  6. You have been very busy. Thank you for the comment on my bag. Must try the peanut butter.

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  7. I'm sorry to hear you are still feeling down, I hope your productive day lifter your mood a little. I'm looking forward to making some home-made yoghurt when my kitchen is finished & I shall definitely give the peanut butter ago too x

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  8. Now that was a very productive day, and hope you are feeling brighter in yourself.

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  9. You are indeed a lady after mine own heart.

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  10. I have never made peanut butter, it just never occurred to me! Thanks for the pointer, we eat a lot of it. Also the wild garlic pesto, I have never made that either. Glad I stopped by! Thanks. x

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  11. A very productive day!!

    I've never made my own peanut butter, I should definitely give it a go, and I need to go and pick some wild garlic before it all vanishes this year, unfortunately we don't have any in our woodland, but I know a woodland that does ;-)

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