Yearly Archives: 2010

Poodle draws winning ticket!

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Somewhat dubiously I offered Zeb the bowl with your names all folded up. He sat, he waited and on the word ” OK’, he dived into the bowl and came out with a name which he took back to bed. He doesn’t wake up properly till midday.

Drfugawe let me have your address, you can use the contact form in the menu bar,  and I will send you the Fiori! Congratulations!

PS Just tried to lighten up the photos and seem to have got doubles in the slide show. Will try to fix later.

Avoiding

Crummock Water, Cumbria

On the way to my Dad's old house

I am avoiding doing the things I should be doing. That means I am not even doing the things that I could be doing for fun, like baking, because I should be doing something else. So I am just extending the avoiding a little longer, by looking through my photographs…

Can you freeze a yoghurt starter?

 

The things you forget you planted

 

Saffron crocus makes a surprise appearance in the bottom of a planter this weekend. Thought you might like to see its long red stamens!

And the answer to the question?  YES!

I successfully unfroze a couple of tablespoons of matsoni culture yoghurt that had been in the freezer for two months and made a fresh pot of yoghurt with it yesterday. Worth knowing if you go wild and get lots of cultures from a supplier to try out and are swamped with yoghurt, or if you are going away and want to wind down the yoghurt making for a while. I don’t know if you can do the same for kefir? I want to try that sometime and if you could freeze it, then I would certainly get some. There is only so much yoghurt you can keep going in a small household!

Here and here are a couple of links to earlier posts about making yoghurt in case you want some tips.