Make It Monday 22nd July 2024

Good morning!

Last week flew by. It was so very cold here, and wetter than a winter has been for a while. We are now living in a home with water views, the back and front yards are just floating. Poor Lacey-dog stepped off the pavers onto what she thought was grass and sunk! She was so funny, didn't quite know what to do for a second. 

I didn’t get any crafting done last week. I did get the kits prepped for this coming Sunday's card buffet, a big job that I was happy to cross off my list.

More was accomplished in the kitchen.
*I cooked a big pot of chicken and veg soup in the pressure cooker. Half a small chicken fillet, lots of onion, celery, carrot and potato and plenty of stock went into the pot, 30 minutes later we were eating delicious soup. I used the hand mixer to shred the chicken and you'd never know there was so little meat actually in the pot. 

*Made pizza bases and used two of them to make BBQ chicken pizzas for Hannah and I for tea on Thursday. 

*Cooked all our meals from scratch using what was on hand. 

*Served toasted crumpets with the soup to make it a more filling meal. 

*Picked rosemary from the garden for Hannah.

*Packaged 6kg of chicken fillets for the freezer.

*Bought mozarella, ham and salami from Savemore. Spent half an hour repackaging and vacuum sealing into smaller portions and put them in the freezer. The saving on the salami alone was $22, the cheese $26 and the ham $18.  A $66 saving and enough in the freezer for a couple of months.

*Between rain showers I rugged up and weeded and dug over the garden beds, dug in some compost and planted parsnips, turnips and beetroot, and sprinkled silverbeet seeds over the top. We'll be eating silverbeet and beetroot in a few weeks. 

*Picked some lemons and mandarins from our fruit trees. Picked rhubarb from the garden.

What did you make, bake, grow and sew last week?