Busy busy
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♥Sep. 6th, 2015 // 05:05 pm♥
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I've been a busy bee today (sorry, have apparently been infected by an edition of Poetry Please about bees that I had on in the background: anything's better than Football Sports Hour...).
This morning, spurred on by there being a frost last night, (you may wish to look away now) I started on Christmas shopping. My, but it's amazing the stuff you can get for £1 on eBay from random Chinese sellers if you're prepared to wade through all the random stuff in their stores. I think I have my colour scheme worked out, and a Plan for cards.
This afternoon, we took Jo up to the common and acquired four big bags of apples (looks as though last year the abnormally bad for apples, rather than the year before being particularly good), as well as a bag of blackberries and one of elderberries. Those last two are now washed and in the freezer, a quarter of the apples are in the steamer, a quarter dripping quietly away in a jelly bag, and the remainder Awaiting Developments.
"I think," Mike just announced dolefully, "I may need new slippers before Christmas...." Conveniently, I'd come to the same conclusion a good six months ago, so I just had to go upstairs and get him the pair in the cupboard.
GB's been a bit twitchy coming down from the field lately, when it's been gloomy, and the last few days he's got to the edge of the sunny bit of the field and refused to go forward into the shade of the trees until Bugs did so (despite beatings). I remembered last night that I'd had his eyes checked, a few years ago, and the vet concluded that he had cataracts but that (she phrased it more delicately) he'd be dead before they caused him a problem. I'm now wondering how long she thought he had in him, and if I should get them looked at again. |
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Hammy
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♥Sep. 6th, 2015 // 08:12 pm♥
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So, we had a leg of serrano ham, and for the past few weeks it's been hanging up in one of the rooms behind the kitchen, having bits sliced off it every day.
Unfortunately, it became apparent that it wasn't an ideal situation for it, so this afternoon we chopped the rest of the meat off it and froze it in bags suitable for a couple of lunches.
Now, I've got a bag containing lots of bits of fat with slivers of meat embedded, and two of the three bones (I binned the other, on the grounds that it was too long to go in the stock pot).
Is there anything I can do with either the meaty fat or the bones? I was going to make stock, but Mike thinks it will be unusably salty. Thoughts? Maybe just the bones (which still have a fair bit of meat on them)? |
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