Life Without Lemons: Stills Collection

STILLS COLLECTION: MIA

I took a little blog break. Life has been hectic and with a trip to Disney World thrown in the mix this little blog has been coasting on without me!

Sparklers for Bonfire Night

Disney Fun!

A birthday for Harry and one for me- Marble Slab Ice Cream Cake for everyone!

Teaching an Epic Pig Butchery Day at Northlands in Edmonton for Shovel and Fork and Slow Food Edmonton. Fabulous people and fabulous day.

The white stuff has arrived....

So time to dust off the blogger brain and get back to it. I have some exciting Christmas ideas coming soon and lots of warm and comforting food to keep you going, even when its -25! It's nice to be back.

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, by Elyse Chatterton

Green Tomatoes

STILLS COLLECTION: GREEN TOMATOES

Nothing causes panic to a vegetable grower than the threat of a night time frost. It was action stations to gather what I could from the garden and that included a lot of green tomatoes. Good job I like making and eating chutney!

Green Tomato and Apple Chutney

All shapes and sizes, but all green!

Turning my hot smoker into a cold smoker with a metal bin (trash can to my Canadian friends) and filling the water tray with ice. Works perfectly by the way!

He made me something in his kitchen, it was delicious.

Plucked from the ground, just in time!

Roasting overripe heirloom tomatoes from Lactuca with salt, pepper and a little olive oil. Best pasta sauce ever!

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, by Elyse Chatterton

Bush Pies

STILLS COLLECTION: BUSH PIE BREAKFAST

A bush bush pie is basically a toasted sandwich cooked in a cast iron pan over a camp fire. I was introduced to them this summer in Unity, Saskatchewan, whilst visiting family there.

As soon as we got back I hunted out my own bush pie maker (Available at Princess Auto, in case you need to get one!)

It was only right that we make it our own tradition so we decided that baked beans and sausages were the perfect center for our Bush Pies- we just had to add a dash of British in there!

Baked Bean & Sausage Bush Pie

The menu.

Sweet version of the Bush Pie- Blueberry pie filling toasted and then generously sprinkled with icing sugar (powdered sugar)

Hot chocolate & marshmallows.

Mars Bar S'mores Kit- well it was National Toasted Marshmallow Day so we figured it would be rude not to!

Marshmallow Jedi's hard at work

A rare snap of us together- taken by Harry.

Guess Who.

Piggy in the Middle.

It's back to school on Tuesday so this was the perfect weekend activity to close off what has been a very cool summer holidays.

Hope you had a fabulous summer too?

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, by Elyse Chatterton

Stills Collection

STILLS COLLECTION: A TASTY OLD WEEK

Gathering my stills photos and it was clearly all about the food this week!

The golden egg wash and it's best friend pastry!

Golden brown perfection.

Courgette and pumpkin seed muffin with a raspberry top just basking in the sunlight.

The perfect first tomatoes from the garden.

Who needs flowers when you have beetroot leaves?

Big, bold beetroot juice- delicious

Leftover fritatta pack lunch.

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, by Elyse Chatterton

Eggs

STILLS COLLECTION: IT'S NOT GOODBYE IT'S AU REVOIR

Apologies in advance that this is a photo heavy post. Call it a catch up on what has been an amazing few weeks. My Mum and her friend came to visit for three (gin filled) weeks and on Monday we did our little dance of avoidance at the airport so we didn't see each other shed a tear as we said our farewells for now. Silly I know but us Parkinson's don't show emotion you know!!

We smiled a lot, drank a lot, ate a lot and more importantly laughed pretty much all the time!

We can't wait for them to come back, well all apart from Alfie who said he was glad they were gone as it meant he could have his bed back- five year old boys for ya!