Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of posts, you may have missed during the week… I am still virtually spam free…they are creeping back but now targeting new posts as I have closed comments on all posts after 28 days…however, once comments close on the recent posts they will have to reset and hopefully, they will get fed up but this is preferable to the hundreds I was getting every day…

Monday Musings…

Monday Musings where my muse pinpoints anything exciting or unusual I have read, seen or experienced during the last week it could be anything that piques my interest or my ire…

Last week’s natural antibiotic was honey…I love honey and use it in my cooking and as a preventative for sore throats and colds…I know Groundhog day was the week before but I came across a cute video and a few of you have reported that winter will be ongoing for another 6 weeks at least… my chosen piece of music was sung beautifully by Jake Gyllenhaal who is not only easy on the eye he loves food…he knows how to spatchcock a bird and make creme brulee…plus as you know I abhor waste in the kitchen and if you head over to Bite, Eat and Repeat then John will demonstrate how he used his mountain of leftovers…John is not afraid to mix and match flavours that you and maybe I would not dream of putting together in the kitchen and they work…

Monday Musings …6th February 2023…Natural Antibiotic…Honey…Leftovers with John Rieber plus Sunday in the Park with George…

We are now in 2023 and my aim is still the same to cook chemical-free food, in season grown either by myself or purchased locally in season…it is also to minimise waste…the figures on waste particularly food waste really bother me and with rising food costs we can’t afford to waste anything…

That milk was in the top 5 of the most wasted foods shocked me and many of you as I am more likely to run out of milk than waste it…These Portuguese Tarts had no pastry base(fewer) calories they were not the best to look at but tasted better than they looked and after being the go-ahead Aston and his girl ate the lot they loved them for me they were a little sweet so I’m searching for another recipe which maybe less sweet…if you wish to read the full post then please click the highlighted link below …

Carol Taylor’s Green Kitchen…February 2023…Kitchen Waste…Milk, Portuguese Milk Tarts, Jersey Royals and an Update on Green Manilla Tamarind…

Thursday Thoughts…

Didn’t happen last week…I have been preoccupied and have only been running on half my cylinders for quite a few weeks now…our daughter in Australia has got 2 more lumps/lesions whatever the doctors call them she had a PET scan 2 weeks ago and 7 biopsies last Wednesday the results were on Friday…1 lump is benign which is good the other they said was indeterminate that is the one on her lung it will be discussed at the doctors meeting this coming week as to whether they rescan in 3 or 6 months her doctor is recommending 3 months starting at beginning of Feb as that was when they were first discovered …so April by my reckoning in that time it will have grown so why the hell are they not removing it now??? But what do I know I am not an oncologist…I am scared for her and many of you will relate to that…Mary and Sue, bless them…am I overthinking as a mum…but that is why Thursday didn’t exist in my world…x

Smorgasbord Health Column 2023 – The Body our Greatest Asset – The Heart and how it works by Sally Cronin.

At every stage of our life, healthy nutrition is essential to help the body develop and remain as disease free as possible.

In this second series of posts Sally from Smorgasbord Magazine is going to be exploring the heart and its functions. 

The heart is a wonderfully complex organ and we need to do all we can to keep it healthy and beating… in this series Sally will tell us in plain easy to understand text how we can help ourselves by quite simply eating the right foods, exercising moderately and not doing anything too reckless…this will go a long way to enjoying later life to the full…Please click the highlighted link below and it will take you to the original post…See you there x

Smorgasbord Health Column 2023 – The Body our Greatest Asset – The Heart and how it works by Sally Cronin

Thank you for joining today a short roundup but as always i look forward to your comments and appreciate any share x