Things to do over the Next Few Weeks

I am a great list maker  - I make lists of the things that I would like to do - sometimes I complete them sometimes I am a tad optimistic, but I do find lists helpful a good memory jogger and it is so satisfying ticking things off as items being accomplished and those items not achieved can always be carried forward.


Shopping

Before I start anything tomorrow evening I need to do a little bit of shopping in order to make some of the bits and bobs I have scheduled to have a go at.  So first things first is the shopping list:

1. Butter - for everyday and making curds - done
2. Milk - for everyday, yoghurt and cheesemaking
3. Cream - for puddings and cooking.
4. Lemons - for curds and cleaning - done
5. Basil
6. Tray of Eggs - obtained
7. Puff Pastry couple of packs done
8. Apples - obtained
9. Oranges
10. Cooking Apples
11. Glycerine Yes
12. Strawberries - first batch for syrup done
13. Beeswax
14. Rennet  Yes
15. Sunflower Oil
16. White wine vinegar
17. Hops
18. Jasmine leaves
19. Orange blossom water
20. Rose Water

I also managed to pick up a few extra items; so some of the stuff will be deferred to next week. The extras I obtained were:

Rye Flour
White Spelt Flour
Buckwheat Flour
Vegeren Rennet - Cheesemaking
Vitamin C powder - Breadmaking
Arrowroot - for cooking and beauty products

I needed quite a few of these just hadn't expected to be able to pick them up today.

Thats just for this week and there may be some other bits and bobs am not able to get so those items wll go on a file forward list.


Foody Things To Put Down In Store

1. Make Mustard - done
2. Make Yoghurt
3. Bottle Tarragon Vinegar
4. Make Some Basil Oil
5. Make Some pesto, put into individual ice cube trays and freeze
6. Make some walnut pesto put into individual ice cube trays and freeze
7. Make Elderflower Cordial - done
8. Make Elderflower Curd
9. Make Elderflower Champagne - done
10. Make Elderflower Wine
11. Dry Elderflowers -done
12. Make Elderflower Jelly
13. Make Gooseberry and Elderflower Curd
14. Make Gooseberry and Elderflower Jam
15. Make Strawberry and Elderflower jam
16. Make Lemon Curd
17. Make Orange Curd
18. Dry Some more Apple Rings - done
19. Dry stale bread for home made breadcrumbs/stuffings
20. Make Curd Cheese - any excess to be frozen
21. Make Yoghurt
22. Start Rumtopf done
23. Make Herb jellies
24. More Rose Petal products including conserves - done
25. Home Made Muesli
26. Home Made Mincemeat - done
27. Preserved Peel in syrup - done
28. Make Sage Oil - done
29. Make Strawberry Syrup
30. Make Fruit Coulis
31. Make Plum Jam
32. Bottle tomato passata
33. Apricot curd
34. Freeze cherry plum tomatoes for winter months done
35. Bottle Plums
36. Dried more sage and rubbed into storage jar - done
37. Apricot Jam
38. Make Orange Wine
39. Make Lager
40. Make Bitter
41. Make Cider
42. Make Apple Pop
43. Make Ginger Beer
44. Make Giner Wine
45. Make Plum Wine

Edible Things

1. Home made ice cream
2. Make Jelly/Trifle
3. Make Savoury and sweet puff pastries
4. Make Croissants
5. Make Pain Au Chocolat
6. Make Ice Lollies for the freezer - made cider adult ones
7. Make Bread
8. Make Pannacotta
9. Make Profiteroles

Housework

1. Washing
2. Line Drying
3. Ironing
4. Strip Bed and get sheets laundered dried and ironed
5. Polish and Hoover out bedroom
6. Hoover stairs
7. Sort out Dining Room
8. Sort out Pantry and take everything out, wash and paint out; put everything back including storage of cake tins and storage tubs etc in back of pantry.
9. Scrub out kitchen
10. Get kitchen walls papered with lining paper.
11. Paint out kitchen and stencil
12. Make blind for kitchen and also sink skirt
13. Door Curtain

Gardening

1. Tidy and sort front garden including weeding nearly there
2. Weed herb bed - completed and re-sorted
3. Plant up herb tubs - completed
4. Sow some more seeds
5. Get stuck in with the weeding and clearance in the back garden
6. Get rid of any rubbish

Well that's the plan anyway and the best laid plans of mice and men often meet detours along the way.  Will see how it goes

Catch up soon.