Make It Monday 27th January 2025

Week 4 Round-Up (a wee bit late, but better late than never!)

In the kitchen I made lots of salads, in bulk, to see us through. Lots of potato salads, pasta salad (I tried the pesto pasta salad again, and again it was  a huge hit) and coleslaw, with boiled eggs. I washed, dried and bagged two huge lettuces, sliced up three enormous cucumbers, sliced red, green and yellow capsicum and drained three tins of beetroot. Getting dinner ready was easy - one night I drained a jar of meatballs and warmed them, another night I drained a jar of ugly chicken and we had it cold, and on another night I drained a jar of corned beef and we had it cold with the salads. I love easy meals!

I made a double batch of pizza bases.

I made a jar of coffee syrup. Thomas has taken to having an iced coffee in the morning, and he was buying it from the supermarket and if it wasn't marked down it was over $7  per litre! It costs around $3 to make 2 litres of  coffee syrup, enough to make up 40 iced coffees using 50ml with 200ml of milk. Depending on the cost of your milk, each iced coffee costs around 37 cents! When Nescafe is on sale, I stock up so we always have instant coffee to make coffee syrup.

In the garden, the next round of raspberries are coming on. I've been watering regularly, and watching them. As soon as they are red I'm out, gently pulling them off the canes, before the birds can get them. They get washed, dried and frozen for jam later in the year.

Week 4 was a slow-ish week in the craft room. 

Lots of cutting out of canning mats and towel toppers using really pretty fabric full of pumpkins that was gifted to me a while back, and I learned a new crochet pattern for bowl cosies.

The pattern said they were one hour bowl cosies, it takes me about 2 hours to finish one while I'm watching TV of an evening. I'm using up cotton yarn from the stash, the this first set is going to be multi-coloured! I think they will go into the van, they will be great when we're camping. 

What have you crossed off your gift list this week?