The easiest seasoning mix to make and very versatile.
Ratio of 2:1. 2 tablespoons of lemon pepper : 1 tablespoon dried rosemary.
This seasoning is good with lamb, chicken and great sprinkled on roast potatoes.
I buy the lemon pepper already mixed. You can use a mortar and pestle to grind up the rosemary a little before mixing with the rosemary. This mix makes enough for about 2 meals.
Store excess in an air tight jar or container, and label.
On Sunday just past I put out a piece of pork to roast for dinner. It didn’t defrost even in this heat. So at 4pm I popped the roast in the fridge to roast for Monday night dinner. We ended up having chicken drumsticks that I had pre cooked and frozen and salad.
Last night, Monday, I got my knife out to score the rind, I got my baking tray out, my oven on. I got my piece of pork out only to discover we were having roast lamb for dinner not pork. That will teach me to pack my meat away in the freezer without a label. Usually I can make out what that roast meat is, no need to label.
The roast lamb was delicious, I sprinkled on some rosemary lemon pepper with a little olive oil. Roast lamb for lunches today. I was kinda looking forward to the crackling though!
I very rarely ice or frost a cake, I figure that I have enough sugar in the actual cake I don’t need more. If I’m having visitors and I want to make something special then I will.
I never frost or ice a muffin, they just don’t need it.
If you’re making cupcakes an easy way to add colour and difference is to colour your coconut and sprinkle on top (It’s easy, food colouring and coconut, mix. Let dry and sprinkle.)
You can use sprinkles or 100s & 1000s. Yes they are another form of sugar but you don’t need as many and they are not as thick a coating on top as icing and frosting.
I freeze my cupcakes with nothing on top. I use the sprinkles when the cake is defrosted as sometimes the defrosting and condensation make the sprinkles soft and the 100s &1000s colour run.
The sewing basket, raid it, raid some one elses! My mum doesn’t sew as much as she used to, but she has other shades of cotton I don’t have. Ask people if they have any leftover sewing items, small bits they no longer need.
In the sewing aisle you can buy eyelets (maybe not all colours) hole piercers, tracing wheels, cottons, ribbons by the metre, buttons, braid. You can still match buttons to ribbons like the pre matched and packed, it just takes a little time on your part, you pay for the convenience of pre packed matching items. Check it out first and compare. Be aware of prices, just like groceries.
I’m probably not suggesting anything that you’ve not already thought of or done previously. Sometimes I think we forget to go back and revisit, to see how creative we all were back at the beginning when we just started our crafts with minimal tools and money.
Today being friday it’s easy dinner night. BLTs, there is nothing like a home made sandwich of freshly cooked bacon, crisply shredded lettuce topped with a couple of thick slices of a tasty tomato. I think we forget that a lot of the take away food you can buy, you can make at home and it’s much, much better and much cheaper.
With your own BLTs you can use multi grain toast, cut the fat off the bacon, leave out the salty butter, use your own mayo and the sauces of your choice.To make it more like a take away dinner pop in some oven baked chips, potato wedges or potato gems.
Put all the BLT ingredients on the table and let the kids make up their own.
To those who celebrate it, have a great Valentines Day <3
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