Quote for the day:
“To live a creative life, we must loose the fear of being wrong” Unknown
Welcome to day 15. Wasn’t it great to finally have some rain over night? Our farmers will be pleased along with the life style block owners and residential neighbours.
Fantastic news that the cases of COVID-19 are decreasing. Yes, yes, yes!
Today being Thursday is my online teaching day through Wintec. There were issues with last week’s classes but today thankfully there were none. I felt much more confident and everything seemed to flow well, students were more verbal and actively involved.
Here is the link to Day 14’s comments just in case you missed out, they are always interesting reads and sometimes you can have a good laugh: Day 14.
Some special to share with you
One of my readers Sue shared with me how she records her lock-down days. I admire her imagination and sketching skills – oh to have such talents!. Sue, I think your daily sketchings will make an interesting book when this lock-down is over.
How are you recording your days in lock-down?
Feijoa Chutney Recipe
Here is the recipe for those of you who have requested it – it is tasty.
This recipe is from Rowan Bishop’s booked titled “The Virtual Cafe Cookbook” published in 2000. She used to live in Hamilton and write for the Waikato Times many years ago.
Aromatic feijoas are such a wonderful fruit to eat fresh and they are full of good vitamins and fibre. The only problem is that they don’t have long lasting abilities. Feijoas do however, made a great chutney for eating with breads and cheeses, tangy and sweet, this chutney is irresistible on crackers with cottage cheese OR use as an accompaniment with cold meats or simply cooked fish or chicken.
Ingredients and instructions
| 600 gms onions 1.5 kg feijoas (about 7 cups peeled, diced fruit) 3 medium apples 2 1/2 cups wine vinegar 3 cups sugar (I put in 2 cups) 60 gms fresh or pre-pared minced ginger 60 gms fresh or pre-pared crushed garlic 2 Tbsp dry mustard (powder) 2 Tbsp mustard seeds 3/4 cup raisins 1 tsp cardamon seeds* 1 tsp whole cloves 1 Tbsp turmeric 3 Tbsp cornflour 1/4 cup of water * The cardamon seeds enhance the unique flavour of the feijoas |
1. Peel and chop the onions into small dice. Peel and dice the feijoas then peel, core and dice the apples. Place the vegetables in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan. Pour in the vinegar and the sugar and bring to simmer point over a medium heat. 2. Add all the remaining ingredients except the cornflour and the 1/4 cup of water. Turn the heat down and simmer, covered, stirring regularly for 40 – 45 minutes. 3. Combine the cornflour with the 1/4 cup of water and add slowly, stirring to ensure the cornflour mixture doesn’t turn lumpy. Allow to simmer for 1 minute more. Pour the mixture into hot sterilized glass jars. |
Happy cooking and do let me know how your chutney goes! If you have a feijoa recipe that is easy and always successful, please let me know and I’ll share it.
Signs of autumn
To-do list
- Completed one hour in the shed sanding and have made a start making my grand-daughters a noughts & crosses set.
What can you tick off your to-do list today?
Well that is it for Day 15. Look forward to hearing about your happenings and events.
Be patient and be kind to yourself and everyone else in your bubble. Stay safe – Goldcard Gal 🙂
Lockdown day 15.
For me, 12 hours of sleep last night. I woke at nearly 10:00am. and think I must be the first up. The noise or lack of it, is over powering, Is everyone sleeping more?
I know the days are getting shorter but all those plans of projects for lockdown seem to be getting away with less realtime available.
Then! The first headline I read this morning.
“Sex toy sales triple during New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown.”
No wonder it’s quiet, everyone is too tired from efforts to make use of the new free time the government has invoked.
Perhaps this is why so much toilet paper was required and maybe why it’s now so quiet.
Once again, a brilliant calm sunny autumn day.
Clear sunny skies.
My parents told me of how in London, August to September 1940 with the Battle of Britain happening immediately overhead, the whole 6-8 weeks of it’s intensity was conducted under the same brilliant clear sunny skies. Coincidence?
At that time it was described as their “Finest hour”! Is this ours?
It certainly is beginning to feel that we are witnessing a once in a lifetime event.
For my immediate family, we arrived in New Zealand from across the ditch 9+ years ago just to experience the 2nd Christchurch earthquake event. After which regular natural and less natural catastrophes have occurred. Not once in that time have we regretted our move.
The last few weeks have reinforced that feeling and every day since continues to enhance it.
(This is a space for lunch)
Today at the Tour de Garage there has been an unprecedented event:
Following the debacle of the course directions 2 days ago the whole peloton (except the Gordonton team) have gone on strike.
Team managers from all the world tour teams are up in arms about the issue and have refused to start today’s stage until some adjustment in placings and overall times is agreed to with the race officials:
At the time of going to press there has been little movement toward this and so we can only report that today’s racing has been abandoned.
Might get another 12 hour kip now!
Unhurried In Hamilton
Thank you “Unhurried in Hamilton” entertaining as usual. I didn’t know about the sex toys sales tripling??? Someone must be having fun then as I ain’t me! 🙂
That’s excellent Sue:a keepsake: and Colin I can relate to your commentary for your Tour-de-garage: very witty; Yours I-Solution😊
Totally agree “I-Solution” thank you 🙂
After listening to the depressing Covid-19 news on BBC World this morning I feel so grateful to be living in a land where we have a trustworthy and efficient Prime Minister. The rain has freshened everything and today we have glorious sunshine again with only a breath of wind. Enjoy the Easter holiday everyone.
It always seems curious to me that we have such a long and much appreciated break for Easter, while Ireland, a much more religious country, has no holiday. Does anyone know of the origins of our long Easter break? Does it occur in other countries that you know of? We do seem to be very well endowed with public holidays here in NZ.
Thank you Alison, always enjoy reading your comments. Can anyone help withe the origins of Easter? 🙂
Thank you Alison, always enjoy reading your comments. Can anyone help with the origins of Easter? 🙂
Gosh those sketches are amazing! Love your blogs heather
Thank you Vicki totally agree with the sketches! 🙂