Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "pies"
23rd September 2011
It’s usually hard going back to work after a long weekend off but not this week. Though the work was a bit of a backbreaker, filling the baskets ready for the boilers, it flew past and getting up in the morning seemed routine. Even Tuesday morning wasn’t the problem I thought it would be. Other good news was that the council have finally fitted the new windows that we were supposed to get back in July. It was all completed in one day while I was at work. Magz had the joy of putting up with the noise and dust. The workmen were just finishing up as I got home which was a blessing. I’m not sure of the new double glazing yet. They seem bigger so let more light in but the livingroom ones only have small upper windows you can open. The main expanse can’t which would be good in the winter but in the summer heat you would like be able to open it up. Well be grateful I have them now.
I’ll need to get my grass cut this weekend. It may be the last of the season so I’m hoping for one good day. I also have all the garden furniture to move back after moving them so the workmen could get access to the back windows. While my blueberries are rapidly vanishing from the bush though I doubt now if I will have enough for making wine, maybe a pie though. While my apples are fattening up nicely, Magz is looking forward to making an apple pie which is her favourite. I must admit I prefer crumble, especially with custard, yum.
I’ll need to get my grass cut this weekend. It may be the last of the season so I’m hoping for one good day. I also have all the garden furniture to move back after moving them so the workmen could get access to the back windows. While my blueberries are rapidly vanishing from the bush though I doubt now if I will have enough for making wine, maybe a pie though. While my apples are fattening up nicely, Magz is looking forward to making an apple pie which is her favourite. I must admit I prefer crumble, especially with custard, yum.
7th September 2012
Still waiting on my Blueberry pie. Magz says she’ll make it this weekend. Hopefully she will have custard to go with it, yummy. Last weekend Tammy and her mum made rhubarb crumble. The rhubarb came straight from the garden. The ladies did try to make real custard. Unfortunately it didn’t go well. It isn’t the easiest thing to make from scratch. I know I tried it once and it went more like scrambled eggs. Too much heat. I have heard since that you should put the pot in simmering water to heat the mixture more gently though I have never tried it. I think I might just leave it to the girls though.
It is really the season for baking with all the fruit ripening in the garden. The cooking apples are weighing down the branches of the tree now, though it will be a couple of more weeks before I pick them. At the same time the tomatoes have given me the second of the year with more reddening up nicely.
In the root vegetable department it has been a little more disappointing though I still have the beetroot growing. The carrots suffered from the slug this year. I did get one or two that were no bigger than baby carrots. The potatoes out of one of the growing sacks seem to have been missing in action. The other did give us a nice crop though it wasn’t enough to make up for the other one. It has certainly been a mixed year for the garden. Some things have done really well yet others have been adversely affected by the amount of rain we have had. Hopefully next year won’t be as wet.
It is really the season for baking with all the fruit ripening in the garden. The cooking apples are weighing down the branches of the tree now, though it will be a couple of more weeks before I pick them. At the same time the tomatoes have given me the second of the year with more reddening up nicely.
In the root vegetable department it has been a little more disappointing though I still have the beetroot growing. The carrots suffered from the slug this year. I did get one or two that were no bigger than baby carrots. The potatoes out of one of the growing sacks seem to have been missing in action. The other did give us a nice crop though it wasn’t enough to make up for the other one. It has certainly been a mixed year for the garden. Some things have done really well yet others have been adversely affected by the amount of rain we have had. Hopefully next year won’t be as wet.
