Friday 31 October 2014

Miscellaneous photos

Tangerines are getting bigger and bigger. The tree has now moved inside to our living room and is still doing great. The fruits are growing but haven't got yellow yet. I really hope we can taste them one day.

We did get lots of tomatos and I'm planning to plant some next year as well.

Habanero. I'm making some chili oil with these because they are sooooo spicy.

Thai chili

Habanero

Funny's photo shooting





Xhosa couple of days after his surgery. He got hit by a car and his hip broke. This was in mid September. Now he can already walk but not perfect. And he is still not allowed to go out on his own.

Looking through the window to the terrace

We bought this bottle from South Africa and now we opened it to celebrate Xhosa's successful surgery.

Is it normal that in a two-person-household the fridge door looks like this?

Xhosa wants to go out

Finally outside in the sun

Funny eyes

Funny doing a cleaning



His shaved behind looks so funny :D

Ready for a patrol

Thursday 30 October 2014

Tea, please!

Autumn means tea time for me. I'm not a big tea drinker, at leat not during spring and summer but when the gray, rainy and dark autumn arrives I always find my tea pot and brew a whole big pot of hot tea for the whole evening. 

Lately I have been into some British suff...reading Ann Cleeve's books and watching Escape to the Country on BBC. At some point both of those end up drinking tea and eating scones. So I thought, why not, I shall bake some scones as well. I don't know if this is a real scones recipe. It's from the American Culinary Academy book. So, if you feel like you are in hold of a better and more original recipe and feel like sharing it, please, do. I will give a try for sure. 

With this recipe the scones turned out quite nice as well. I actually baked only small part of them and rest of the ready formed scones I froze down unbaked. That way I can later just take a couple of them out whenever I feel like eating one. Let it defroze and pop in the owen and enjoy with freshly brewed hot tea.

The recipe

Flour and butter

The ready dough

Scones after forming

Scones and tea