Happy New Year 2016 By Miss K L Slomczynski

Good Morning and a Happy New Year 2016 to everyone.  

I hope that your New Year is full of  FUN in the Kitchen and that some of my use tips and advice that I provide help you to think of a different way of cooking and what you could use.

This Christmas I did not cook.  I spent Christmas Day with my loved ones who cooked for me.  I was so happy to have a day off from cooking and to just be able to put my feet up and enjoy and family home cooked meal.

This for Christmas we had Chicken and not Turkey but I did not mind, it was nice to have a change and a "Break form the Norm."

This week so far I have focused on only cooking stews with winter vegetables and meat from local butchers and selected stores that we use on our travels.

This is some thing that I will probably continue to do until about March.

WE still have some Elderberry Syrup on broad the NB Painted Lady that we made in September 2015 and some Home Made Wine which we made from Elder Flower/Elder Berry, and Rose hips with other added ingredient like Ginger.

WE have now had one Home-made wine bottled for Callan and Byrndly's 18th Birthday's with the help of their grandfather Mr Rayman Baxter.

I can not wait to start foraging again and making more "Towpath Culinary Delights" this Year. 

I hope you enjoy reading my Blog.

Any Questions, please contact me.

12th November 2014

It is the day after Remembrance Day, the day after the end of the Second World War.  But not the end of War and conflict.

It was the early hours of this morning when I remembered that i was going to aim to only spending about £30.00 per week on shopping (food.) Over the last few months I do not believe that I have done well in reaching that goal, with the Big C on the way I know that I am likely to overspend.

Overspend and buy things that I do not need, in result wasting food.

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/node/2472


This really dose worry me and is some thing that I personally would like to try and prevent myself from doing in the future.

When I lived on my own, I always budget.  My cupboards were always full of boxes dated for the month so that my meals were planed out and I could feed myself until pay day.  My fridge and freezer were also stocked up (mainly with ready meals for one.) so that I could eat when I got home at 1am after being at work for over 12 hours.

But a lot of the packaging worried me too, due to it always ending up in land fulls, this is due to so many things still not being made from materials that can be recycled.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-waste-and-recycling/2010-to-2015-government-policy-waste-and-recycling

In this day and age it makes me so mad that we still waste so much and that even local authority do not seem to really be doing and thing about it.  In my home town Nuneaton, recycling always seams to be a big issue but yet nothing is really achieved.

Despite the councils best efforts it is appears to be costing more when people try to recycle than if this never bothered at all.

 http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Contaminated-recycling-bins-leaves-council/story-25812963-detail/story.html








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