Tofu at Princess Bek's

I believe it was the week before last that stitching was at my house. I forgot utterly to take any photographs, but Princess Kate very kindly brought along her rotary cutter and the mat you cut out on, and the ruler thingy, and showed me how to cut out 3 inch squares to do patchwork with (next week I am hoping she will show me how to pin and sew them!). Princess Eleri was also working on patchwork.

My PU#1 came and hemmed a curtain for us. I can't for the life of me remember what anyone else was doing (possibly because I was busy running in and out of the kitchen, organising an enormous pile of roast veg and baked tofu as well as baked lamb chops for the non-vegans).

The baked tofu worked so well that Hugo actually ate the rest of it. Here's the recipe:

1 pack firm tofu
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tbs maple syrup
squirt tomato sauce
1 tbs white vinegar
dash tabasco
1 tbs sesame seeds (actually I must admit I didn't measure, I just chucked some in)
clove garlic, squished
few good grinds of the pepper grinder

Slice tofu into cubes, mix all the marinade together, marinate in the fridge for a half hour or so. Then put it in a single layer and bake in the oven at 190 C for 15 mins, turn over and bake for 15 mins on the other side. Voila, as the fr sa.

This was good, because it took about the same time as my baked lamb chops (drizzle with olive oil, cracked black pepper and fresh rosemary, bake with whole cloves of garlic).

Not related to stitch and bitch, but I'm just at the moment boiling oranges to make this cake to take with us when we go to a friend's for dinner tomorrow, and it smells SO good! Plus, no dairy or gluten, so it's not going to make me all allergic. I might make some orange slices in syrup to go on top of it...

Some old pictures!

Hi everyone, and here are some old pictures you might remember from I think the last S&B at my old place (oh, I miss our little tudor-style cottage :-( Still, our new 70's pad is pretty cool!) in perhaps October last year.

Enjoy.

First we have a rather nice photo of the Eleri-buffet-picnic, with a special focus on the lettuce, which I seem to remember Ed placed in the bowl in a flower-like effort (thank you Ed, very good creativity).

Our next picture shows a few of us having a bit of a giggle (Us? Giggle? Surely not!) It also shows the lovely Kate diligently working at unpicking a couple of rows of misjudged knitting Eleri had stuffed up earlier in the night. Subsequently there was a bit of knitting school so now eleri knows what purl and knit looks like and how to interpret what to do next - thanks Kate, you're the best!

Next we have the lovely Viv showing off a pretty pink cardigan for Megan.

And Viv's sis, Emily, working on a camel-coloured jumper...

And the Bek holding up her second rag-rug, which is made of scraps of denim and pink fabric.

And finally, a beanie I made for my Ickle Sis!

Sadness

There have been no posts for aeons! I'm sure we have been stitching. And also bitching. So why no posts?! For shame.
Anyway, I thought I would blog today to tell everyone that I have been an exceedingly good stitcher and have, in fact, been stitching on one of my SPs (Secret Projects) this weekend, and it is looking quite lovely, and I am very pleased with it, and I will happily show it to some of the Stitchers this week. Which reminds me, I have no idea where stitching is this week, and will have to send a message round. byeee, Princess Eleri xxx