A little later in the day for my post but I had a canine visitor this weekend, so I was up early and getting the dog walks done before their owner comes to collect her.
It’s been a lovely week with it culminating in a friend’s hen do on Friday which included a ride on public transport to the restaurant for lunch and then back to my home town late afternoon to go for dessert cocktails and then onto our favourite pub to have a little boogie and sing along. It was fantastic fun, so much so that we all reckon that we should celebrate the anniversary of the hen each year 🤣
I have made a few very yummy dishes this week, most of them very simple. For lunch one day I needed a Mediterranean boost. Halloumi, tomatoes, olives all smothered with a garlicky tzatziki sauce and enclosed in a brioche wrap. Delicious 😋
Tzatziki is really easy to make and even better if you make it ahead of time to allow the garlic to infuse with the yoghurt and cucumber.
Another Mediterranean dish I made was Spanish chicken skewers and Patatas Bravas. The chicken was marinated for most of the day in olive oil, garlic, sherry and honey. I then just popped the chunks onto pre soaked wooden skewers and put in a high temperature oven for around 15-20 mins till browning.
The patatas bravas is pre cooked potato cubes tossed in olive oil and then I air fried but you can roast in oven. The tomato sauce used passata, garlic, sherry, paprika, a little sugar and chilli.
On Tuesday the weather was glorious and very much a Spring day. I had an amazing walk with the littlies in a new section of footpath which actually joined up with one I had done previously. The views were lovely especially with the bright yellow rape fields which are so cheerful to look at but for me, not so wonderful to smell as really tickles my nose.
When I returned from the walk I donned my shorts and tee shirt and got into our walk in shower with Faith as she really needed a bath to get the rest of her coat out that was moulting all over the place. She is not a fan of the shower but just stands there and puts up with it ☺️ She was then able to spend a lot of the rest of the day drying off in the sun.
In the garden things are beginning to sprout and I have seen the first of my carrots and spring onions and the potatoes I planted back in March now need earthing up. The flower bed I created last year in the downstairs garden is looking good and the stocks that I sowed last year and planted in Autumn and beginning to flower.
Now the magnolia are just about over its the turn of the azalea and rhododendron to flower and the peonies to bud up.
As I write this I am in the middle of making pita bread so will share with you next time. Have a nice bank holiday and by the time I write again our King will have been crowned.
Keep on stepping forward everyone.
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