First I had to finish making the gift - which now that it has been given can be revealed as a photo album assembled by me from some handmade paper and cardboard.
Forgot the photo but here are the instructions:
In addition having once again run out of all purpose cards had to make one at the last minute.
Then having had the fashion police dictate my outfit on the day, as we were the witnesses I though it might be appropriate to jazz up my dress with a matching hair fascinator. Cue a last minute rummage through the boxes of assorted 'stuff' to find some feathers, then some beads then a hair clip to attach them too.
I am pleased with the result though.
Some purple quills, stuck down to a fluffy purple feather horizontally at the base, the beads strung onto a short bit of wire with a dab of glue to hold them in place, then the ends wedged into some polysterene from some packaging waste, and a snip of the purple fluffy feather added at the base to hide the white polysterence, then the quills hot glue gunned to a hair clip and the bead wires added on top.
Right - just 337 photos to sort through now to get a nice commemorative album together, in the meantime, here is a witty ditty...
I'm off to stuff tomatoes
If I wasn't stuffing 'matoes
Where would I be -
Well, I'd be stuffing marrows, see?
Or to be more accurate - patty pan squashes - no need to guess what's for dinner tonight?
I stuffed my tomatoes and the patty pan with the same mix:-
about 250g of pork mince,
a tablespoon of garlic,
couple of inches of chorizio sausage,
handful of fresh basil leaves,
ground black pepper
and the innards of 5 large tomatoes scooped out with a spoon.
Whizz everything up in a food processor or chop finely and stir well together in a bowl.
I sliced my patty pans thinly having scooped out the seeds, lay the empty tomatoes on top, fill with the mix and cover with the top of the tomatoes, then I poured in 1.5 litres of chicken stock to 2 patty pan squashes and threw it in the gas oven for 45 minutes on gas mark 6.
The stuffed patty pan was sat in 500ml of chicken stock on a bed of patty pan squash slices and cooked at 180°C for 1 hour.
1 comment:
Amazing fascinator! I kind of wish you hadn't shared your witty ditty, though, because it's going to be running through my head all evening and possibly forever ;-).
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