Another welcoming into Soop's kitchen for those who care to share...

A very happy Easter to all the Kitcheners. The family have been and eaten then gone. It was lovely to see everyone. I've visited mum who deteriorates daily. Tesco have delivered and I'm about to face the kitchen. I hope you all have had a good day

Thank you, dear Doodle. I echo your good wishes.

I am not too far away. I am keeping a beady eye on the status of our kitchen. You will all have a new, welcoming gathering place when the time comes to close the present kitchen.

Happy Easter to all in the lovely kitchen

Wishing you all a very happy peaceful Easter.
We are enjoying spending time with our DS2 and futureDIL
Lots of wedding plans and we are viewing the venue later today. I have to pace myself but good to be here.
Have a lovely Easter Sunday everyone.

Easter wishes to you all whatever the shape of your day.

If you did put your clocks back blossoming it means I wasn’t alone! Fortunately I realised as soon as I’d done them and repeated the circuit. Not too many, most are self adjusting here.

A quiet day ahead. Mr C has developed a hip issue, not pain rather a reluctance to work as it should. I’ve diagnosed too much furniture moving while working on him seeing a physio at our surgery, it will take time!

A beef roast later with apple pie to follow, Mr C’s favourites, we don’t eat lamb. There are chocolate eggs too, I’m hoping Mr C will be able to join me for a walk along our little river, think we’ll both need it .

Have the best day you can everyone.

A very early Good Morning to you all.
I am posting to say that if Dear Blossoming put all her clocks back, she is going to be very out of synch all day as they should have gone forward.
Spring forward, Fall back.
I have been quite off colour but finished the antibiotics yesterday so hope to feel better.
The cough is lingering.
A Very Happy and Peaceful Easter Day to you all.

Good evening dear Kitcheners, we’ve been getting out and about enjoying the sunshine and the various activities at the railway museum and on the marina, I think tomorrow may be a lazy day, escorted as the clocks go back l. Looking forward to the lighter evenings but it takes me a little while to adjust to getting up earlier. We are seeing family on Monday and having a pub lunch.

Hope you are all doing OK ❤️

Waitrose

RosiesMaw

Especially nice with Duchy Originals Lavender Shortbread.

Ooh! They sound gorgeous Maw. I’d like a box of those.
Must look them up, where to buy from. Online?

Hi all, what a lovely sunny day, I got my greenhouse clean and tidy, conquering my fear of the naughty patio which is no longer slippery.
brook dust comment noted thank you, I’ll book my daughters friend in who's a cleaner, she’ll do a very thorough job.
I must be the only person here who doesn’t regularly cook desserts, well, maybe four or five times a year, more of a savoury tooth in this house.
I don’t blame you Grandmabatty less washing up, less stress with more time to enjoy your family, as it should be.
Best of luck for tomorrow Nannytopsy special times.
You’re having a lovely busy time neine watch that hip!

Sounds like you’re going to have a lovely day tomorrow grandmabatty and I’d be doing the same with a buffet lunch - it sounds really delicious and I’m sure everyone will enjoy it - please leave any leftovers here in the kitchen!
We’ve had showers on and off today so I’ve not done much gardening, we went out to the garden centre instead and bought a couple of plants. Then a trip to Tesco’s and Aldi to stock up on groceries as we seem to have run out of lots of stuff. I bought the ingredients for the lemon posset which I’m going to make in the morning
Enjoy spending the day tomorrow with your friends neine, your meal sounds delicious
Have a lovely evening all x

The talk of delicious food here is making my mouth water! I've had a decent day. I was at Tesco earlier and picked up food for tomorrow. I'm being very lazy and providing a buffet lunch. I'm making nothing from scratch which is very lazy. Quiche, chicken, ham, smoked salmon blinis, chicken vol au vents, salad, crusty bread, cheeses, pate, sausage rolls, cocktail sausages etc etc. Then cheesecake, profiteroles and macarons with strawberries and raspberries. so easy for the family to dip into. The table is set, the house is fairly clean and I'll do a little titivating tomorrow morning. Enjoy your evening Kitcheners

Hello Lovely kitchen ladies..I have had lovely catch up with all the news while DOH drives us back from Dunster. Our friends is down from Surrey so we set off early in Henrietta Moho.... we parked up right by the beach and the 'children' careered out the door and the men took them for a walk while I cooked brunch ( I said I would only ever cook breakfast). I managed a bit of a walk too but my recent fears were confirmed...my left hip is hurting now... It's to be expected I suppose given that everything is out of kilter. I took some meds and had a lovely little snooze so normal ( as if that would ever be the case) is now restored. We are going to the vigil service at 8pm....it's long ( 3 hours last year when DOH was received into the church). I'm doing the 7th reading ( that's long too). Tomorrow we have friends coming for dinner.... I'm not doing a roast...I want to spend time with everyone and the pain of bending down to the cooker is too much at times. ( I miss my wall ovens at times like these)..We are having Chicken Basque with Roasted Piedmont peppers....after a simple mozzarella and tomato with balsamic glaze to start....last time they came I did Delia's choc bread and butter pudding so this time it's an Old English Gooseberry Cobbler.
Soop...I hope all goes well when the consultant calls you.... Thank Goodness they have adjusted your meds too.
SueD....I wish you and your DS many many more birthdays to make memories.
Rosie... Lovely pictures of you at the start of your great adventure of being a Mum.
Brook....phew...you made it back. I was very impressed that you went to the gym the next day too.
Grandmarie... I'm glad your lovely friend went on her heavenly journey with you to speed her on her way.
We are nearly home and I know I've not mentioned you all....but please accept my very very best wishes for a Happy Easter weekend.
💐💐💐💐💐 for you all .x

Especially nice with Duchy Originals Lavender Shortbread.

Coincidentally I have just had lunch with a friend and my pudding was lemon posset! Absolutely delicious. It came with not one, nor two but three shortbread biscuits.

I’ve just made lemon posset for the first time. It looks a success for tomorrow’s lunch with son and partner. Thanks.

I’ve just looked up a lemon posset recipe and it does look very easy! Thanks Rosies, llfl and nannytopsy I’m going to give it a go … 😀

Thank you Nannytopsy
Lovely upbeat post.
Sleep well.

We had lemon posset tonight and I plan a chocolate B&B pudding on Sunday. DH & DD do not like duck but tonight DSIL and I had a duck, while they had pork. I did Delia’s Duck with Seville orange glaze and it was very good.
Baby is 9 weeks and has grown up so much since we saw them! Holding her head up, smiling, looking around and trying to make sounds. Her brother has suddenly started to add more words to his vocabulary every day and stringing word together. We are very blessed.
Even more for lunch on Sunday than at Christmas. Oh heck!
We had a “last hour” service this afternoon with some lovely music played between the readings. I managed to stay awake!
Sleep well all!

But then I might have to eat the Hot Cross Buns I have bought

I love a lemon posset and it’s probably the easiest pudding in the world!

Delia's Chocoate Bread and Butter Pudding is one of my favourites too! 20+ of us had it on Boxing Day. One huge advantage for me is that it benefits from being made in advance!
However for Easter Sunday I think I'll do a Hot Cross Bun and Butter pudding!
Or maybe Lemon Posset........

Popped in to wish you all the best Easter weekend it can be. TOYA.

Hi all, apart from a brief shower this morning, it’s been dry, very windy until about 3 and sunny intervals, we hope to get the grass cut this weekend.
I like a cheese scone llfl I’ve not got much of a sweet tooth, your tea sounds a bargain.
I hope those away are enjoying family time, we’ve seen my daughter and the grandchildren today, all pleased to be on a school break.
Football tonight, MrJ’s team, oh joy!

Good evening kitchen pals, it’s been a dry sunny day here in Inverness but still quite cold.
Good to hear from you Soop and hope the change in medication helps from now on ❤️
We arrived home really late last night but we were so pleased to eventually be back home. Today I’ve been doing the washing, shopping and I went to the gym for the Aqua Zumba class - always good fun!
Im looking forward to starting on the cream teas again soon llfl, always a treat in the summer - £5.50 sounds really good value!
Hope you’re enjoying your roast chicken with the family SueD good to have something everyone will eat. I’ll have to plan a trip to the new Perth Museum too - thanks for the info and good that you’re no longer worried after speaking to the speech therapist 👍
En-suite chaos looms Jax - when we recently had ours done the main problem was the fine white dust that got everywhere so I’d recommend moving as much stuff out of the way as possible!
Hoping you’re enjoying time with your DS Yia and a very Happy Birthday to your DGS for yesterday
Have a lovely Easter weekend everyone xx