Mainly Domestic

[callmemadam]

More surprises in my garden. This lovely rose is on the gable end of the cottage, under my bedroom window. I think it must be ‘Buff Beauty’? Love it. The round beds (will they stay?) are a haze of pink and purple at the moment, mainly from aquilegias. When I looked close, this appeared:



The name tells you how I missed it: Thalictrum aquilegifolium. Pottering around the border before flowering time, I would have taken it for yet another aquilegia.

It’s getting really summery



I was intrigued by to Cornflower’s description of beetroot with goat’s cheese as recommended by Nigel Slater. I have a copy of The Kitchen Diaries (50p from the market) and followed his instructions for baking beetroot rather than faffing around with a pressure cooker as I’ve always done before. It was a complete success. I now have leftover cooked beetroot, some of which will make my favourite beetroot salad. I got this tip from a friend years ago: just diced beetroot in yogurt flavoured with horseradish. It’s pink! It’s delicious.

I was so inspired that I went on to make Nigel’s Pear and Blueberry Cake, only without the pear.



Lovely.
Of course, it helps to have a shiny shiny new kitchen, shown here just before it was finished.

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[(Anonymous)]

I forgot to add that those Robert Opie Scrapbooks are ideal for presents. We gave a 1950s scrapbook to my brother in law and sister in law for their Golden Wedding anniversary, and in the list of dates, inserted their wedding in writing which looked like the list! For a moment they were fooled into thinking it had really been included!
Margaret P