Not Going to Spend Too Much Time Cooking and Catering

Meal Planning for this week. May not have time for much cooking and baking so I will keep it simple.
Monday:
toad in the hole, cauliflower, carrots and mashed potato
home made rice pudding

Tuesday: 
Vegetable jalfrezi with rice
home made yogurt and banana
Wednesday:
Quiche Lorraine with chives , salad

banana and yogurt
Thursday
Home made pizza and salad

baked apples and ice cream

Friday
fresh tuna, new potatoes, peas, brocoli and tomatoes
pancakes and lemon
Saturday
Italian meat balls and pasta and salad
ice cream
Sunday
not yet decided what is happening.
Glenda
www.cutleryandcatering.co.uk

Saturday is Caption Day. Strange Restaurants.........

Saturday is Caption day. We have eaten in some strange restaurants in our time but ......well maybe you could find a caption for this restaurant in a cave.

Glenda
www.cutleryandcatering.co.uk

 

Afternoon Teas and all That

As usual I have lots and lots of reasons to be cheerful this week. The first is that business seems to be going from strength to strength. I am so glad that we no longer sell in shopping centres and venues all over the country and decided just to sell on line instead. The reason we made the change was because my husband had a back injury but it just shows that sometimes a bad thing can be turned into a good thing.

     People seem to be buying lots of cutlery for children and afternoon tea has really taken off too so that lots of country houses and restaurants are buying tea knives, pastry forks and tea forks from us. Long may it last.
     We looked after our little "bonus" grandaughter at the weekend. She is our son's girlfriend's little girl and she has gradually got really used to us and we love having her to stay. She is just a few days older than our little granddaughter and the two little girls are such good friends too, so we took her over to play for a little while before taking her back to the station to go home.

     Last but not least I am trying out lots of new Mary Berry recipes this week for both snacks, main meals and cakes. Let's hope my baking turns out better than last weekend!

Glenda
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Silent Sunday

No words. Just the picture.

A Perfect Day and you come across this......

Just imagine this. On holiday. A beautiful sunny day. Not a soul in sight. You explore the grounds of your hotel and you come across this. Can you caption it, that moment when you realize you have it all to yourself?

Glenda
www.cutleryandcatering.co.uk

What does my Garden Mean to Me?

What does my garden mean to me? It is a place where I can sit in the sun and watch old friends come back year after year.
Every year the clematis and the lilac flower at the same time, just after the apple tree blossom has gone

old friends return

lilac

It's a place where squirrels dig out bulbs but we still have plenty left to flower.

 

I love the tiny dianthus which are so very tough and sturdy

and the flowers that grow in nooks an crannies

on rockeries

and in borders.

year after year

I love the thrill of growing and eating our own vegetables

and promise of fruit to come

the idea of picking herbs

but best of all
I love sitting in the garden, looking at it all and drinking Pimms!!!

 

 

Cheers!
Glenda
www.cutleryandcatering.co.uk

Italian Ice Cream and the Over Indulgence.

We went for a walk around Sorrento, enjoying the peace of the pedestrianised streets away from all the traffic and noise of the scooters and came across this little pavement cafe.

We looked inside and saw this.

Of course Peter was in there like a shot!! And, honestly, don't you think this is rather over the top, even for him?

One good thing, though, he was given a real ice cream spoon like this to eat it with!!!
Glenda
www.cutleryandcatering.co.uk