Annette- sorry your day wasn’t that exciting.... I find Bank hol days out best to be avoided.... too many people for my liking!
Hope you get the better of your jigsaw! OH’s doing one with all dogs in different sizes and various positions all on a white background!
Roobarb & Custard ( mustn’t forget him!) - sorry you were disappointed no one had started Mondays for you to read.... I was too tired... you’ll see why below! Always good to relax in the sunshine and potter...
My day
When I got up and pulled the blind my heart sank as it was dull and cloudy... but not cold... after breakfast the sun broke though and it turned into a pleasant... warm day...
As we had people coming for a bbq in the evening I had a great deal of prep to do... first make a dessert...an easy one just needed to cook a pastry case... got the pre rolled pastry out and realised I’d bought sweet puff pastry and not short crust 😱😩 never made a pie with it before... well I just put it in the oven making sure it was well cooked before adding the ingredients, mix of mascarpone, strained Greek yogurt, vanilla paste and lemon zest, a few spoonfuls of lemon curd run through it, then topped with blueberries that I’d made into a compote then added few fresh ones ontop.... I then spent most of the rest of the day making salads, I found a lovely one for thin sliced courgettes tossed in olive oil, lemon juice, shredded mint leaves, flat leaf parsley, chopped nuts, red chilli....
I did shredded beetroot with carrots added ground coriander and lots of pepper...
having done all that I realised I was also hosting our Tuesday coffee so fortunately had a courgette cake in the freezer so defrosted that and made the filling of cream cheese icing sugar and lime juice and zest sandwich it together. I then made some flapjacks which I sandwiched an apricot compost I’d made between it....
We had lamb and pepper skewers ( made up by the butchers) ...
It was a lovely evening and we had a thoroughly good time! I did however manage to have sent the wrong time to one of our friends so when after 20 mins they’d not arrived I gave them a call! Good job they only live up the lane behind us 😂😂😂.
Went to bed at almost 1pm totally shattered... been on my feet all day! So nice though to get dressed up and have friends round.
Caroline