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Baby Seagull, Soup and Cake

The weather is gorgeous and our neighbour invited us for a swim. I didn’t dip but enjoyed the company and the shade and watching the baby seagull which fledged yesterday.

Thanks, Sue, for the photo.

We have so many courgettes growing at the allotment! Today I have made two pints of courgette soup, (using my Dear friend Kath’s recipe, Kath to whom my blog is dedicated) made a Courgette and Lemon Cake and given eight to the neighbour with the pool!

Two raspberries picked today and served with the Courgette Cake

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 29, 2024 in allotment, baking, friendship, nature, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Cake

24 Jul

We had blueberries to use up so I made a Blueberry Cake, not my usual recipe as I didn’t have enough eggs. This new one tastes as good but all the berries migrated to the bottom!

Delicious lemony icing

A slice with crème fraiche and vanilla

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 24, 2024 in baking, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Cake, Raindrops and Stream

24 Jun

I’ve made a Chocolate Cake for a special person tomorrow.

I love how raindrops collect and sparkle on the Nigella flowers.

We spent some time near our favourite stream on Sunday. I wish you could hear its gentle swishing by.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 24, 2024 in baking, garden, nature, Postaday 2024

Mixer, Cake and Fireworks

14 Jun

For the last 30 years, since she died, I have been using my Mum’s handheld electric mixer to make all my cakes. Last week, it broke having been in use for at least 50 years! I now have a new one and it is both light and really quiet and beat up the mixture in a flash. Here’s to many more cakes!

Here’s the cake that I have made for tomorrow’s market on Murdoch Day in Redruth. Watch this space for the parade and more festival fun.

We’ve bought a new Agapanthus called Fireworks. It is gorgeous. I’ll show you again when it’s in full bloom. Behind it you can see the beautiful cream flowers of the Ginger Lily.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 14, 2024 in baking, flowers, nature, Postaday 2024

Posy, Cake and A Bee

29 May

We took a pretty pink garden posy to our dear friend, Ti, yesterday and loved, as always, sharing poems and, this time, telling her all about our holiday in Italy. We were away for her 105th birthday at the start of the month so it was fun to see her many cards and hear about her day.

I’ve spent the afternoon at a fabulous and unusual birthday party. We started with a brilliant hour’s singing workshop with my choir leader, spent another hour eating cake and chatting to all the lovely prople. The afternoon continued with a ceilidh but I didn’t stay for that!

I made a Victoria sponge as my contribution to the party.

I love the fluffy bee who spent such a long time inside a vibrant pick Cosmos.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 29, 2024 in baking, community, friendship, garden, nature, Postaday 2024

Food for Friends

19 May

Regular readers know that I like cooking and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed making lovely meals to share with our visiting friends.

Asparagus Quiche

Cornish Cream Tea

Confit Duck and lentil Salad with pomegranate seed.

Three leaf salad with olives, peppers, avocado and flowers

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 19, 2024 in baking, Celebration, friendship, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Lemon Curd, Magnolia and Pudding

23 Mar

I read a delicious sounding recipe in today’s Feast section of The Guardian, Hot Cross Bun and Lemon Curd Pudding, basically Bread and Butter pudding for Easter. I didn’t have any lemon curd so made some so that later I could use up a couple of rather stale hot cross buns to make this scrumptious pud.

In between the hail showers today we have had bright sunshine so in one sunny spell we managed a short walk and I spotted a last bloom on a lovely Magnolia tree.

The pudding turned out well, very tasty and rather filling but we had had a minimal main course tonight! The recipe called for six buns and three eggs but I made it just for us with two buns and one egg, needed much less Lemon Curd (plenty left to have on toast!) and served it with ice-cream.

Recipe by Ravinder Bhogal – thank you

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 23, 2024 in baking, nature, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Tags: Feast, Ravinder Bhogal

Delicious Treats

12 Mar

We all worked hard today at Community Roots, some of us potting on dozens of baby tomato plants while all those working outside were preparing beds ready for the big plant out of onions, shallots, garlic, broad beans and more. We had all earned our treats at the tea break today.

Cheese and Olive Scone made by me

Chocolate and Nut Flapjack made by Simon

Beautiful Orange and Lemon Drizzle Cake made by Nicky

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 12, 2024 in baking, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Tags: community roots

Spring Flowers and Muffins

03 Mar

Despite the never ending rain and hail showers, the Spring flowers keep blooming and standing up against the weather. It is a joy to see them from the back windows.

I read a new recipe for Lemon and Blueberry Muffins yesterday and made them this afternoon. They are delicious!

Silvana’s Gluten-free Blueberry Swirl Muffins

Cake, Roots and Spring Blooms

20 Feb

The cake I made for Valentine’s Day last week, for the volunteers at Community Roots, has been in the freezer as we couldn’t go. It went down well this morning!

Plenty of happy volunteer workers today and lots of salads being harvested.

Happy volunteers

Salad harvesting

Just look at the onions I sowed only 3 weeks ago!

Quite late this afternoon we decided to go to the gardens at Trelissick to see how things had changed in the ten days or so since we were last there. The Magnolia over the bridge was absolutely lovely, still some buds to open. The Daffodil Walk has lots of bright, open nodding daffodils (and on one, a bee! A rather blurry photo as the wind was blowing.) We managed to find all that were advertised on the Welcome board. Click on any photo for the bigger version.