They didn't eat it all, but they might as well have done...

I had a large bag of potatoes on my balcony and they got a little bit frozen, so I decided to peel them all and boil them. Now I have a very large pan of cooked potatoes... luckily, I also have a load of recipes which require cooked potato!

I'm thinking about blueberries. Ever tried blueberries in a salad?

That could be one of my recipes, but it's not.....

There's a single banana that's been lying in the kitchen for ages and now it's surrounded by wee fruit flies...they're kinda cute.

A couple of interesting events happening today...

I thought I'd do an update on the home tree situation. The lime tree count is now up to five...

Today I cut down the last of my window ledge herbs and salted them for the winter. I thoroughly recommend trying this....

Well, I tried the recipe I said I was planning yesterday and it worked really well.....

Yes, it's that time of year again. I bought a beautiful pumpkin a few days ago and I'm still trying to get through it....

Here's a wee picture I took from Rothesay pier in on the Isle of Bute..

Just spent a couple of weeks on the Isle of Bute in the west coast of Scotland. There's a heavy crop of succulent brambles this year and we took time to collect some whenever we were out walking.

But you have to drink a lot of it. Ever tried getting the juice out of beetroots?

Imagine you lived in a city that was built on a plain, but the plain was gently and evenly sloping. Imagine had a bicycle and imagine you could choose where to live in the city. Would you choose to live uphill or downhill from the shops?