This and that…

Hello Friends!

Saturday I was not feeling too well so grandpa did some shopping on his own, but yesterday I was a little better so we went out in the afternoon it was 17 degrees C!

We gained 17 degrees in one day???

One of The only shops opened  on Saturday had some Christmas decorations, so we bought some for the garden and also some lights.

This morning I made some jam and little pots of jams I found yesterday for the children .

Banana coconut and yellow kiwis and grapefruit.

Grandpa built the baby bouncer for William 

Grandma had a rest colouring a Christmas picture from my Dutch magazine “Daphne’s diary”

 And this is  a part of what fell from the roof, better not be underneath!

Now I will prepare the meals and rest, knitting and watching tv, not doing much!

I feel a little better with the treatment for the moment waiting for my clinic appointment in December.

Mirabelles pie recipe.

Recipe Tarte aux Mirabelles.

For the pastry

125 gr flour

40gr sugar

1egg

70gr butter

For the filling:

1,5kg mirabelles

100gr sugar

3 soup spoons water

Mix flour and sugar. Add melted butter and egg

Make the pastry and keep it 1hour in the fridge.

In an oven gaz 180C or th 6

Bake the pastry for 10 mn

Remove the stones and cook the fruits

With water and sugar. Leave it to cool.

1 egg

30gr sugar

100gr fresh cream

In a bowl mix the egg sugar and fresh cream.

Put the mirabelles on the pastry and add the egg sugar and cream on top.

Bake for 25 mn

Serve hot.

 As the jam jars I bought had plastic lids , in fact I did not pay attention and they have changed the lids, so I did not turn the jars upside down as usual, I bought some paraffin wax to keep them longer.

Have a nice day.

Jam making day!

 Hello Friends,

This is making jam day! On Sunday, we got 7kg fruits and yesterday I start making strawberry jam and plum jam.

Today, I have a little left to make and put labels and decorate the jars for winter. 

I have cut a bunch of sweet peas from the garden.

After make ng jam I will make a plum pie for tonight.

These are the orchards all along the “ fruit road “ along the river Seine. We can get apple and pears in Autumn, all sorts of plums, strawberries, raspberries, cherries… all red fruits in Summer

At best prices especially those for jam. These fruits can’t be sold on the markets but they don’t keep long so you have to make jam quickly!

Ready to keep in the closet for winter.

I still have problems to leave comments I hope it won’t last too long!