I've made seven rabbits, a new toy after much prototyping; lots of Baby Owls (fourteen?); eight scarves of sewn together wool fabric squares; three bags and sewn together the panels for five wool patchwork bags. Hive of industry, I tell you. A photo session was meant to happen today but it was too gloomy. You'll just have to wait, with bated breath.
So, you get photos of tonight's tea instead.
Waiting for the soup. The bread looks all artisanal but it's from Coles, called Pane di Casa to sound handmade. It's pretty good for small town Australia when you can't be fagged making bread.
Pea and ham soup, recipe from Stephanie Alexander's The Cook's Companion, the big orange book. That book was published in the 90s, I think. It really got me going with cooking. Meals have never been the same at our house! There's Giles roughing up Cooper the pup in the background. It seems a house of many people and animals here sometimes. It adds such richness to my life.