A footbridge over the railway line heading north out of Inverness 🙂
Railway Footbridge
Tag: Cees Fun Foto
Night Lights
A rainy but colourful River Ness lit up on a cold night in early December 🙂
Conservatory Greenery
Close up of greenery growing in my conservatory for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week 🙂
Desiccated Bluebells
Desiccated bluebells still standing strong in front of a crumbling garden wall 🙂
Dried Allium Heads
These previously vibrant purple allium heads have dried out and seeded, but I think they still look pretty in the flower bed, where they remain 🙂
Dead Roses in my Garden
Since going back to work I’ve not been so quick at dead-heading my roses once the blooms have faded, so I’m making use of that fact for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week – Cee is asking for wilting, dead, or ageing flowers and leaves. And they might as well be my Flower of the Day as well 🙂
Single Orange Rose plus Ant
A single orange rose plus ant for today’s Flower of the Day, and also for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Single Flower 🙂
Mural
This brightly-painted mural is in a really narrow alleyway, so is quite difficult to capture in one shot – but the colourful individual sections are lovely on their own anyway 🙂
Freshly Baked Cakes
These little cakes fresh from the oven probably couldn’t look any more beige-brown boring if they tried, but oh, the warm and comforting sweet smell of cinnamon and vanilla fills the kitchen with the most wonderful aroma. As soon as they cool enough to eat, I’m going to have one with a steaming hot cup of coffee – and that’s another lovely smell to add to my day at home! 🙂
Chicken Soup for Lunch
Today I want soup for lunch, so here it is in the making.
Being an old-fashioned sort, I always have a bag of chicken bones squirreled away in the freezer, added to bit by bit as I go along until I have enough of a collection to boil up for a big pot of stock. And in turn the resulting chicken stock makes whatever I fancy at the time. Usually the base for soup, but sometimes a hearty stew or a risotto.
But as today I want soup, I’ve added a handful of oatmeal for thickening, a handful of pearl barley because I love the creamy conststency it makes, chopped garlic, onion, carrot and sweet potato, and seasoning to taste. For me today that means black pepper, a shake of chilli powder, and a good dose of mixed dried herbs, parsely, and of course bayleaf.
My soup needs to simmer gently for a couple of hours, and then about half an hour before I want to eat it, I’ll add a decent portion of frozen sweetcorn kernels to cook through – and then after warming through some crusty bread to go with it, we’ll enjoy some yummy soup for lunch! 🙂
