Marmalade Mistake

Don't add acid to marmalade to tart up the flavour at the end of the process. We now have three large jars of tasty gum which cannot be spread with a knife, and I blame the acid. There is a chance that I overdid it because the gas hob transmits far more heat and for once the jars took longer than boiling the jam.

One visitor triumphs over another

A pop quiz for your edification, with visual clues:

1. What should turn up in the Timms trap on Saturday morning?
2. And who should turn out to have trapped furs for pin money during school?
3. And what did we have for tea on Sunday night?
4. And what is nailed to the underside of the lounge floor?
   

And just to test out the technology, here's a clip of Claude shaking the rigor mortis out of the wee beastie.

Som Tam

Last week at the local Sunday market I noticed a Fijian stall selling green papaya, so tonight we had Som Tam. I don't think I'll bother going back to substituting with carrots. Three cheers living among a sizeable Pasifika population.