The Kitchen Towpath, Home Kitchen Cooking and Gardening By Miss K L Slomczynski

Friday, 1 July 2016

What will I cook tonight? 1st July The Battle of the Somme.

1st July 2016 "The Battle of The Somme"

Today is the First Time that I have boggled since moving house with my children and becoming a "Full-Time" "Single Mum".

But what dose that really mean?

I have not really cooked in over 4 months and used nature to inspire my cooking with the swans poking there heads onto my kitchen for a few tiny morales.

When I look over the last years of my life before my 33rd Birthday on 4th July 2016 I think of how much my children miss there farther.

And then I think of all of those people who lost there their fathers and prayed for them to home.

My children's father does not live with us and it is not because he his in the armed forces fighting for Queen and Country. It is because we currently live in a world where people are encouraged to be "single parents".

For almost three years we tried to stay together and raise our children as a couple BUT over the last 4 months I have done so on my own.

This is due to not being able to raise my children no a narrow boat which was their home due to the way that we where being unfairly treated by Canal and River Trust.

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/?gclid=CNyXsaGx0s0CFRYTGwod6SUAgA

But today I do not think about this I think about those that gave their lives in the hope of a better future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36674451

In Nuneaton at 17.00 there will be a service for those that died on this day. Those Miners from my Home Town Nuneaton.

https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/161639

http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/forgotten-heroes-remembered/story-28837557-detail/story.html

Sadly I will be unable to make it due to picking up my son from Nursery at 17.30 and having to use public transport to do so.

The information about the event should hopefully be displayed on Nuneaton Memories Page on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=nuneaton%20memories

To night I will probable cook fish and chips, this is due to it being a "traditional" meal of Great Britain.

Once I have got organised I will try to get back to my "Towpath Cooking" I have just started to prepare the Elderflower to make home made wines and tinchers. This is what I miss about living on the boat being able to just wake up in the morning and steep out side my front door and be any where in the UK.

Being able to see the sun rise and sunset over the water and hear the song of bird call fill the air.

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Women Who Run With The Wolves

Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power..., Estes, Clarissa Pink.

http://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/

I have this book for sale a classic addition on Amazon the book retails at £9.09p

Like any book that I own it as been read at some point by the owner and this previous owner highlighted parts of the book which were personal to her.

Quotes

If you are looking at buying this book, please click on the link below.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Women-Who-Run-With-The-Wolves-Contacting-the-Power-Estes-Clarissa-Pink-/252285476359

Time to say goodbye

This week I have been going though all iof my belongings again and have now desided to get rid of some of my books that I have had stored for a number of years and no longer use. Those that are behold disrepair and damaged I will use as "winter fuel" or upcylce into art work.

I will be putting them on line sometime this week.

Friday, 12 February 2016

Cook Book

Over the last couple of months I hi am have been thinking long and hard about what I would put into my cook book. I am happy with the title that I have chosen and still want it to include things that are seasonal and you can pick up from the Towpath with in the UK.

I also want to include other items that would have been eaten and consumed by Traditional Boating Families up until 1940. This would have been around the time when people would have been forced to live in houses and trading upon the Canal Network started to decline due to Road and ultimately cars being invented.

I also would like to had some modern twists to my cook book, now that any thing can be purchased (at a price) and with the amount of items of food still being imported into the UK; anything is posible.

However I want this to be a pratical cook book, one were you could quite easily go into your local "Superstore" and pick up the item. Or use the suppliers direct that I am looking at recommending.

So where do I start first?

Well Spring is on the way; and with S[ring comes Easter, so maybe I will start there.