Coming soon

Tonight is the country night at Marcille Robert, I should be posting photographs tomorrow.

The next "coming soon" is Sixt sur Aff Fete
I just got back from Sixt, I've been down to see how the park is looking and how much has been done in preparation for next week.

Rosies Gateaux au Thon

Gateaux au Thon

Ingredients: (serves 4):
300 g canned tuna
100 g grated cheese
100 g flour
3 eggs
10 cl milk
10 cl of olive oil
1 package levure (baking powder)
Salt and pepper
Chopped Parsley


Drain the tuna and crumble it coarsely.
Place flour in a bowl, Mix in the eggs , milk and oil
Mix in the Levure, tuna, grated cheese and parsley. Salt and pepper.
Grease and flour a loaf pan and put the cake mix in
Cook at 200c for 40 - 50 min






If I had Pistachios available I would have added them. A lovely savoury cake. Wednesday I will make a similar cake with ham and onion instead of the tuna. I will remember this time to take some photographs as I go. Let me know how yours turns out, or any changes you make.

Christmas is coming

I know, its only just summer but I bought these today.

Hedgehogs

About 4 am this morning there was a terrible commotion in one of the chicken pens, I jumped out of bed quickly sending the dogs out fearing a fox was enjoying a free breakfast. I raced to find my wellies and a torch, two of the dogs came back though looking very confused. but Lucy stayed outside the Bantam chicken house barking, I quickly raced to turn of the electric fence and went to investigate, The baby chickens had come out through a small gap in the door and the mothers were going frantic, I opened the door and there was a hedgehog, now I know hedgehogs will eat eggs but I don't know that they eat baby chicks, but there was a dead baby in the house with a bite taken out of the back of its neck.I put Lucy in the house went back down and the hedgehog was still there so I shooed him on, hopefully he wont return tonight.

Just a small one for me please

Absinthe could be legalised in France after 100-year ban

Absinthe, the mind-bending green spirit said to have inspired Vincent van Gogh, could be legalised in France almost a century after being deemed a public menace.

Pablo Picasso's portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, also known as The Absinthe Drinker Photo: PA

The drink's powers were notorious in late 19th-Century Paris among bohemian artists and writers. Many swore it expanded consciousness and enhanced creativity, dubbing it the Green Fairy.

Van Gogh is said to have created Starry Night under its influence and it has been suggested it played a part in him cutting off one of his ears.

Read more here Daily Telegraph.

2 Cooks and a Cabbage.

What ever happened to health and safety?

Wartime Kitchen and Garden

I will post one of these every now and then, but in no particular order as this one interested me first.

Lazy

Keefs Birthday party

Off out now to Keef's birthday party, where we will all sit at watch the football.

No pass the parcel, no musical chairs and the England goalkeeper playing his own version of blind mans bluff. But a pleasant evening none the less and the weather behaved . However the new chickens we bought for Keefs present have escaped, as yet no news as to if they have been found. A reward has been offered for there safe return, although its advised not to approach the pair, but to call Keef so he can collect them and pay you your reward.

New babies at Half Acre

Arthur

And Lewis