All Entries Tagged With: "fruit"
A day of Japanese things
Yesterday my friend S treated us to a delicious bento lunch at Mitsukoshi Restaurant near Piccadilly Circus in London. My bento included salmon and tuna sashimi, vegetable and shrimp tempura, miso soup, vegetables, rice, and fruit. Roxi had the tonkatsu bento. We enjoyed this food so much. S says the food is authentic at this [...]
Crumpets, Clotted Cream and Mother’s Day
Chewy. Maybe kind of spongy. Or rubbery, even. Perhaps a cross between an English muffin and a pancake, if you can imagine. At the same time, airy and good. My friends, may I introduce you to the English crumpet? . This is not a very posh specimen, I am afraid. But still , it is [...]
Good Morning!
This is what it looks like here today. Okay, that’s not my garden. It belongs to our next door neighbor. Still, I shot this through our lattice fence, which means we can enjoy the fruits of their labours. I’ve been meaning to tell you that now that we’ve switched to British Summer Time, things are [...]
I’d rather be making art
I took this from Roxi’s window yesterday morning–it was a glorious day! Here’s the same view not long after we moved in. Our crab apple tree has lost all of its leaves, but the fruit remains. I was feeling sad about not using them–the tree worked so hard to make all of those crab apples. [...]
Note to self: Buy some Wellingtons today
Yesterday morning we had a stunning blue sky with lots of interesting vapor trails. After dropping Roxi off at school, I drove by a nearby field. It’s been calling to me for months now, but I’ve never stopped. Well, it must have said the right thing this time because I pulled over. I was just [...]
Pumpkins on the brain
It’s October and until this morning, I didn’t realize that one of the things missing in our home right now is a pumpkin! Believe it or not, there are not piles of pumpkins at the grocery store. In fact, there are no special displays of candy, or costumes, or anything remotely related to Halloween. I [...]
Here’s one cut open
Hm… I’ve had some guesses on the mysterious fruit I posted yesterday. As you can see, Roxi and her friend were incorrect when they said the fruit had a pit. It actually has multiple tiny seeds. Also, the fruit is about the size of a cherry, maybe a bit bigger. They are really hard too, [...]
Feeling Fruity
Any thoughts on this one? It’s about 1.5″ in diameter. Roxi and a friend cut one open and found a pit. Mama DJ bravely tasted one when she was here in late July, but it was sour. Here’s what the tree looked like when it was blooming. It had white flowers. . These are small [...]
Making the most of the slug weather
Since I had a little time after the pub lunch yesterday–I ate a salad with roast duck, apple, and bacon, by the way, sorry no pictures–I decided to take the extra time before carpool to visit one of my favorite places, Savill Garden. Since it was just me, I went to the areas Roxi avoids [...]
I could get used to this pace of life
View from our picnic blanket. Windsor Great Park, England. We tried to go on a nice coastal walk on Saturday. We were so prepared, packed a nice picnic lunch, got on the road and… ugh! Stop and go traffic. It took us one hour to go as far as we would normally go in 10 [...]
