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| You just can’t beat picture of soil! |
This is where my strawberries used to be and has now been properly dug over with some leaves, the remains of a bag of manure and the remains of a bag of rockdust added to the soil – as seen above! Now just have to decide what to put here…?
Confused Strawberries
Over at the freshly weeded (honestly!) new strawberry bed – OK I still need to sort the runners out – they’re happily flowering away??? So I moved a bit closer to get a photo and was a little surprised to see strawberries!
Can’t see them ripening up now though – LOL.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen…
The apple challenge continues – the challenge being to use as many apples as possible in as many different meals as possible. Apples crumble was a big hit – although it would have been better with toffee as well (according to my son’s friend) – but sausage and bean casserole (with sneaky bits of apple), not so good. But that was more to do with the sausages to be honest. Slabs of apples sauce are in the freezer – it doesn’t take much cooking for them to turn to sauce – but the biggest hit to date (with the kids) has been apple fruit leather.
After a quick cook on the hob, followed by a quick blitz with the blender, it only needed the 20 hours or so in the oven…
I’m thinking maybe the mixture was a bit too liquid when it went in the oven? But it turned out OK in the end and the kids both took some into school to show their respective classes and give some away. The remaining ‘sheet’ rolls up quite nicely and should store in the fridge for a while yet – certainly longer than it’s going to last!
I’m dragging the rest of the family off to the RHS Harlow Carr ‘Taste of Autumn‘ event this weekend – waiting to see which day looks best on the weather forecast first – to reveal all on the apple tree, with luck. Speaking of which, picked another 50 or so the other day, still plenty left… Currently storing the good ones on top of the wardrobe and in the outhouse, may need to find more room soon!
A Plot Too Far? 