The Elms, Suffolk

Breakfast: Scrambled Egg, Toast, Bacon Lunch: Beef & Mustard Sandwiches Dinner: Cheeseburgers, Sweetcorn, Baked Potato Dessert: Raspberries, Clotted Cream, Meringue A really windy day, more sun than expected, but amazing to see how Maggie's hard work is paying off.  Here are a few photographs, including our first little harvest.  Samples really of what is to come Testing the Harvest Runner Beans & Flowers The Rose Garden Vegetable Beds The Arches So.,.. after  104 days (15 weeks) we have decided that the lockdown blog is over.  We have enjoyed writing every day and showing how we have eaten, shared some recipes and how we planned and thought about food, probably too much.  We will still post to the blog when we cook something new or special, and perhaps when we entertain.  If you are a subscriber to the blog or you follow on Facebook you will get those notifications. The original idea of the blog was to do exactly ...

Breakfast: Muesli & Cornflakes Lunch: Albacore Tuna, Chopped Salad and Ceasar Dressing Dinner: Chicken Wings, Bratwurst, BBQ Sauce Garlic Mushrooms and Saute Potatoes Dessert: Cherry Garcia Ice Cream Raised Vegetable Beds & 'Rumbelows Bank' Lunch: We had a busy day in the garden.  Vegetables are mostly planted or in pots ready to plant out. Mostly down to Maggie with me adding my tuppence worth now and again. A quick salad for lunch  Tuna & Chopped Salad Dinner: I had planned Pork Belly slices to go with the Chicken Wings, but forgot that they were in the BBQ and so quickly defrosted some more Bratwurst to go with the wings. Wings on the BBQ The sauce was a quickly made 'cupboard' sauce. A splodge of whatever condiment comes to hand.  Ketchup, Smooth Branston, Sweet Chilli Sauce, Mustard, a very little sherry vinegar