cooking and a proud mama !

 I made a lovely salad today for tea , must  start to think about losing some weight  with all these weddings  around the corner , my lovely neighbours next door got engaged this week also...must be catching! Congratulations to Julie and Andrew I'm so pleased for you both,

 I hate waste, and especially  when money is scarce so today i made a pasta salad with  the left overs from  bolognaise yesterday! Rosa especially likes pasta salad ,half an onion  from the sauce yesterday waste not want not as my lovely grandma used to say!and some mushrooms i bought on my nostalgic shopping trip! I love ASDA but have found that the shops such as ALDI and LIDIL are so much  more economic for things like  fruit and veg. Three peppers were  one pound  twenty  in ASDA ,the same ones sixty nine pence in ALDI that's such a bargain!! Add some garlic and peas .I use lazy garlic because I'm just that lazy! How i long for a huge garden like my sisters! Shes decided to plant a veg garden next year and get chickens! My dream is to own chickens!!

Gently fried in a tiny bit of veg oil...

 Then added to  the spaghetti  which was made last night i always make way too much spaghetti!!

 Add that to home made pie which looks a bit too rustic I'm always in a rush and theres my bargain tea...of course  Patrick ans Sean will not touch the salad and pasta so ill have to make them potatoes!! I remember my mum  making wonderful family meals that we all ate at the table in the kitchen! Her cooking is to die for!!

 We never had the choice not to eat what was put in front of us !

Look what i collected!These will be cleaned and frozen and brought out  over Xmas i wont be making my usual jam this year but never mind! After my post about the lack of wayside plums and blackberry's Ive had quite a few people  mail me to say its the heavy rains that have killed a lot of our bee population ! Scary stuff makes me realise how important our pollinators  are...Ive been watching over the last few years the trouble that bee keepers here and abroad  have had with whole colony's of bees just dying,,,,very sad isn't it.

Today i watched my lovely son on tv with Dawn Bibby , demonstrating his amazing SPLOGEAWAY products.

Well done Tom  What a proud mother i am  x