Cooking from Scratch

Moussaka and cannelloni

One of my goals this year is to do more cooking from scratch. Learning how to make our favourite foods and what they are made from, hopefully will help us to improve our diet. I am really hoping to focus on improving our health this year because I am overweight and I need to lose a significant amount. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired!

Fried rice with homegrown veggies

         Last year I completed a Jamie Oliver cooking course, which gave me good ideas about cooking. Now I am wanting to improve my cooking skills so tonight I decided to try a new recipe which was moussaka with eggplant. Next time I need to cut the eggplant into small chucks so that Miss E doesn't know it's in there because she enjoyed it except for the eggplant.

Homegrown plums from the farm

We have been harvesting vegetables from the garden just peas, beans and carrots, they taste so much better than vegetables brought at the supermarket, so much favour!

To finish off our meal we made stewed plums but they were really sour because we picked them too early because the birds were eating them, they were yummy with custard and cream.