Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts

Saturday 22 July 2017

Currant Fare



I wasn't planning on gardening today, but you know how it goes? Pick up a leaf and throw a twig in a bucket and before you know it, you have a pair of secateurs in hand, you're on a mission and everything gets pruned!

The blackcurrants certainly did need picking, but it doesn't end at that. The plant then has to be cut back right back, leaving the new branches for the next season. In the moment, I thought why not—take the time? Repetitive, mantra-like, as I plucked the tiny, purple, vitamin C bombs from the branches, I found myself thinking about how, I inevitably was destroying the habitat of some bug or other. I could feel the reproach, from an enormous grey spider, swinging from the remnants of her web and of the bright green grasshoppers, pinging all over the place. A plastic-looking earwig looked quite pissed off, or maybe it's just their demeanor. All had to relocate, with one consolation, I left the berries that fell for any passing takers. Immediately, a big fat slug, smelling the berries, advanced, amazingly fast for a slug, out of the poppies, to claim and gorge itself on a berry bigger than its head.

My prize, the berries you see in the photo above, weighing in at a grand 340 g. As I sit on the garden bench relaxing, I wonder what will be next on the harvest agenda, before the leaves start to fall: tomatoes, grapes, blackberries...



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Tuesday 28 June 2016

Gushing Eastwick




The sweet tang of eating cherries in the summer is a delight, but I am unable to eat them, without the scene from the film: The Witches of Eastwick, popping into my head—you know the one!

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Thursday 17 September 2015

Wine Equinox



Wine Equinox by Alison Day


Yesterday's daily draw-paint finished, with the beautiful, deep purple, grapes from the vine in my garden, as study matter.






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Thursday 18 September 2014

Smooth Water

Smooth Water by Alison Day


Blueberry Watermelon Smoothie Recipe

Serves: 6

3 cups blueberries

3 cups cubed watermelon

1½ cups ice

Blend and serve in tall glasses


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Saturday 13 September 2014

Fluid Collage


Fluid Collage by Alison Day


Glass jug containing: fruit, mint leaves, cucumber and water detox—
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Tuesday 22 July 2014

Fruit &Veg


Take a look at Vicki Sawyer's wonderful website filled with animals. Portrayed with technical realism and with and with a personal sense of humour.

As a child, family members taught her the different species of plants and animals, which ultimately led to art college.

Work as a graphic artist has meant she has created hundreds of murals containing the beloved birds, insects, grasses, and wildflowers seen in her childhood.

Her animals with hats series popped up one day as a thought, when she was on a walk: "If birds could build nests, then they could make hats."

Garden Sheep



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Thursday 9 May 2013

Cool Parade



Following a crafty link from Facebook, I was led to a page on a website called Buzzfeed, praising old style crafts, things that Grandma would have made; techniques which are being carried on by today's creatives from the handmade revival: crochet quilts, bathmats and matching loo seat covers, doilies, and Barbiesque dolls wearing flouncing skirts - concealing air freshening chemicals beneath their crochet folds. 

OK, ... so I strip back the link to its base, and come up with a cool parade of fun flavoured popsicles ... a myriad of flavours and colours - and - in the immortal words of Jose jalapeno, in a Jeff Dunham comedy sketch- 'On a stick!' 

It's hard to make a choice from this royal parade, but amongst them are vitamin filled and fruity, as well as what can only be described as 'cocktail on a stick,' due to their obvious alcoholic content. 

Recipes are included - now the only question remains to be asked - will the sun shine long enough for it to become Popsicle time, and if so, where ever you are in the world - which would you choose?



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Friday 9 March 2012

Tarty Pantone


This looks delicious, I'll have 1797 C and a cappuccino to go... 
The idea of French food designer Emilie De Griottes these dessert tarts resemble Pantone color swatches and were created for French culinary magazine Fricote.