Going to give a new recipe a try - tofu and roast vege tray bake in a jerk based marinade.  Hopefully it will be a success with lots of left overs to save me having to cook in tomorrow's extreme heat.

I washed DS big fluffy jacket this morning.  Over the past couple of weeks I have slowly been culling a lot of my recipes that I know I'm unlikely to make.
 

Meat pie with smashed potatoes, asparagus and roast pumpkin.  Apple tart for dessert.

What fun Marina . We use ours occasionally . Have to say we use the round hole one fro TMix shop and they are awesome.

How are you getting on now, Chookie?  I hope you are settling down, that your medications are helping and you are feeling better.

We (read DH) has had a busy time over the Xmas period.  He built one hugelkultur bed in our garden - I had heard of this form of garden bed preparation a couple of years ago and finally got DH motivated so he adapted our 'no dig' garden to the hugelkultur method - basically it is one enormous bed comprising layers of wood, twigs, compost, soil and mulch.  It will be interesting to see how it goes.  It has the huge advantage that a lot of the pruning from our trees goes into making it, therefore we have less garden waste to burn at the end of the season.  I think it will take the best part of a year before we see how successful (or otherwise) it was, but DH is now looking at getting another couple of these beds up and running so fingers crossed that we will have a fruitful (excuse the pun) garden system on the go over the next couple of years.

Also got a new home compost system up and running - we bought a Maze tumble composter and set it up just yesterday and DH says it is already looking successful, turning general garden and household waste into usable compost.

We return to work next week and I think DH is looking forward to it so that he can recover from this holiday.