Pie & Custard

a handful of this

plus a few of these

makes this

Rhubarb from the garden & few green apples from the tree makes a wonderful Apple & Rhubarb Pie with some home made Custard.
i stewed the Apples & Rhubarb separate, then mixed them together & poured it into the pie crust.

Home-made Custard

• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup thickened cream
• 1 vanilla bean or 1tsp Vanilla 
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 1/3 cup caster sugar
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• Combine milk and cream in a small pot & add vanilla [if using vanilla bean split bean lengthways & scrape seeds into milk & drop in the bean] 
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• Cook slowly on medium heat until hot but not boiling.
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• Whisk egg yolks, cornflour and sugar in a glass bowl.
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• Remove vanilla beans from milk mixture. 
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• Pour hot milk mixture over egg yolk mixture & whisk 
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• Pour into a medium pot & cook on low, stirring constantly for about 10 mins or until thick & will coat the back of a spoon. 
• Do not allow custard to boil, as it might curdle.

i hate it when you have a recipe that calls for either just the whites or just the yolks. when this happens i always have a companion recipe to use the left over egg. in this case it is Meringue/ Pavlova. i will post that recipe tomorrow. 

Day 8- Building & Baking Sunday

The Weather Forecast
we had some beautiful rain of Saturday night
today it was back to the usual, warm & sunny

day 7 was lost in a day of busy bees.
digging up a side garden, weeding, newspaper, fresh dirt & mulch.
ironing- not a compulsive iron-er {is that even a word}, i usually wait until all of my clothes need doing before i get out the iron & board, & if i need something then ill iron it just before i put it on, but 9 times out of 10 ill just shake it out & put it on anyway.

today A, & i built the gate for the chicken run, a ramp up to the hen house & a nesting box. painted the gate & ramp with the last of the Green paint, will new to buy more to give them a second coat.

Baking Sunday
ANZACS
Choc Chip
White Choc Chunk Cookies
Lemon Curd
Lemon Bars {new recipe}

pulled out the first lot of Radishes to go in a salad to go with
T-Bone steaks on the BBQ


Lettuce, Silverbeet & Snow Peas

Gardening

Saturday morning was wasted as we had to catch the train up to Lawson to vote, they really need to make it so you can vote on the internet. we lived in Lawson for eight years & it has really gone down hill, i am soo glad that when we moved back to the mountains we didn't move to Lawson. its looking like a dump & if the drug deals are anything to go buy i am soo glad we got out.

we had a 1 1/2 cubic metres of dirt delivered {that is a lot of dirt} sitting on a tarp in our back yard.
i finished off the new garden bed & the boys barrowed in the dirt. finished off the last of the wood chip path that runs along side the garden beds.

& spent a good part of the afternoon digging up bindi's. you think there are only a few but when you get down there for a closer look, its never ending. it was also a hot sunny day, so we had a BBQ for tea with salad.

Sunday i repotted a few plants with the new mix.
Planted Bush Beans, Beetroot, Cauliflower, Endive, Lettuce & Carrots
also put in grow pots Tomato's, Break-o-day, Hardy Tom & Yellow Pear

i was excited to see the first snow peas & oh are they soo sweet, also the first of the sugar snap peas are just getting their pods.
this veggie business is very exciting.
Picked the first lot of snow peas, silverbeet & Nastrum Flowers for our salad to go with our tea.

Sunday baking- ANZACS, Snicker Doodles & the new recipes are Lemon Slice, Carrot & Poppy Seed slab with orange icing & Almond Fingers (wheat free recipe).
also made a pavlova base for Mondays dessert.
for tea- steak with diane sauce, coleslaw, mixed green salad & potato cakes {from leftover mashed potato} with a rice pudding for dessert {made from leftover rice}.

in between planing, picking & baking we had a lot of big storms, very windy & pouring rain.

Working on List/To Do List
Floor Rug* 14 colours down
Knitted Dish Cloths*5
Patchwork Quilt* still about the 1/2 way mark on the top stitching
Cross Stitch* still on the list
Hen House* the end is in sight {finger Xed for this weekend}
Pj Bottoms*mmm Red flannel with White spots
Apron*
Small 70's blanket* sewing together