07 September 2017

Good Old Co-op

This was an email received last week from The East of England Co-op





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Dear Susan,

We are trying to reduce our waste and keep as much food in the food chain as possible.
 We have decided to start selling food past the Best Before date to help reduce the
 levels of waste that our stores have. 





Well Done Co-op! And our local one is included in the list of stores where they will be trialing this offer - Good News indeed. and I have no idea why this is like this in a column.Must be something to do with the email I copied over.Odd.Back Soon Sue






06 September 2017

Red Onion "Marmalade"..................

...............................AKA Sweet Onion Chutney.

Made a nice big batch of this a couple of weeks ago and avoided too many tears by peeling the onions under water and using the thin slicing blade on the food processor.
The recipe is on the Recipes From a Suffolk Kitchen page, scroll down quite a long way.
This is the most unusual chutney I make, goes well with cheese or burgers. Some is for us and some for the hampers again but I should have used red wine vinegar instead of white to make it a darker colour as it was a bit pale but only thought of it when I was getting everything ready and had no intention of driving miles just for a chutney!

Back Again Soon
Sue


05 September 2017

The Library Van Visits Again

 I ran out of Library books a couple of weeks ago so was looking forward to seeing the books that I'd ordered  to collect from the library van.

A good selection again

Favourite and first to be read must be the new Elly Griffiths. Then there are a couple more reprints of books from the 50's by George Bellairs  and another of the British Library Crime Classics. . Some new-to-me  crime authors - Andrew Wilson and Nicola Slade and a couple of books by authors I've recently discovered - Natasha Solomons and Julie Wassmer. Then non fiction that I've seen on other peoples blogs. The Silent Day is an oral history of  D Day on the Home Front. Plot 29 is about a man searching for information about his parents and working an allotment ( not sure how they are connected) and The Running Hare is about the secret life of farmland. Plus there's another book about flowers for cutting at the bottom of the heap but it's one originally published in the States, which I didn't realise when I requested it so not all relevant to here.


Many thanks for comments on the Instead of a Holiday post. The first thing Col said when he read it was that I had underestimated holiday costs and several of you agreed. I haven't the foggiest idea really although I have no intention of spending any amount near what ever the cost of a holiday is.

Back Tomorrow
Sue