Tuesday 10 March 2009


Potato Cakes
Potato Cake recipe as promised!

  • 7-8 oz mashed potatoes
  • 4 oz self raising flour
  • 2 oz butter
Boil potatoes until soft and no more. (If you make them too soft you will have soggy potato cakes!) Rub butter into flour, until it resembles bread crumbs. Add potatoes to flour mix and mash well with a fork. Form the mix into flat cakes with your hand. Fry in olive oil or butter till brown on both sides.

We had these for lunch with fried eggs, fresh laid from our two hens! Absolutely delicious. Another favourite is mashed potatoes spread out in a pan to form a large potato cake. This is fried on both sides, with the minimum of oil, till it is crusty on both sides. My stepfather's mother came from the Highlands, and she called this a shevock (don't know spelling!) We fight over the crusty bits!
Enjoy!
tich

Sunday 8 March 2009

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Crayon and Pencil Roll

My camera is playing up, so you will have to wait for another day, before you can see what I was playing with today.
A few weeks ago I made a crayon roll and a pencil roll (see above) for my granddaughters, using the tutorial from this site http://rachel-griffith.blogspot.com The girls loved them. They took them on holiday, and their Mum organised activity bags for them, for using on the plane. The rolls kept all the crayons and pencils together, and it was easy to see if one was missing. Thanks Rachel!
I tried a new recipe today - Irish potato cakes. They were scrumptious. I will post the recipe later this week.
Enjoy what is left of the weekend.
tich

Friday 6 March 2009

My First Post.
I live in front of this bay in Orkney, so every day I wake to this view. It is hard to be depressed, when you see this every morning or night. I try to do something creative every day - embroidery, patchwork, quilting, beading. Today I created this blog to help me stay focussed, (I do have a lot of UFOs lurking in the cupboards!) and to meet old and new friends on the Net. I will not be blogging every day, but hope to keep in touch with my new or older friends. Till then, enjoy the view!
tich
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