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Tuna Mixed Bean Potato Salad #recipe

Summer is just blowing over and we are gently tumbling into Autumn and whilst we are lamenting the last bastions of summer , it is still absolutely ok to eat outside ! I hate food waste and after yesterday's dinner I had some left over Maris Piper potatoes which I put in the fridge.

Ingredients

Left over cooke Maris piper potatoes.

Can of tuna ( as ethical as you can buy) drained.

Tin of mixed salad beans.

Method

Tip the potatoes into a bowl and break with a fork.

Tip in the can of tuna which you would have already drained.

Add the can of drained and rinsed salad beans, which were barlotti , green beans etc , also sweetcorn.

Then mix again.

Chill in fridge.

Then serve with a pot of mayonnaise.

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Quintessential Village

Quintessential.

Quinessential is my family obviously.

Quissential is my surroundings.

Life's journey chugs away and I stand upon the mirror looking back to whereupon I took GCSEs.

Could of.

Should of.

Didn't.

Quintessentially I got there , had a Jack in the boxes of a knock back here there , everywhere basically.

Without these trails I wouldn't have what I have now, quintessential heaven.

Holidays quintessential.

Adventuring quintessential to my well being.

Cooking goes without saying ...

Crafting ....

Photography quintessential ...

Q is for quintessential; what is your quintessential ?

Live to Learn , Blog your Own Song

I am back with a bounce and a vibe now one is quite like me.


I thought since it was 2 months since I burnt out I should start living again , the blogging world is different now I think in a good way, sad way wishful way but here it is plain and simple.


The world doesn't stop still not for one cotton picking minute I think back to lazy summer days of past , blog it fast blog it slow ; do as you wish. I feel as if I am waking form a Rip Van Winkle wondering where the hell have I been  these past 2 months?  You could tell me if you have stayed with me but you can't if you didn't and I don't blame you . Remember being sad/depression isn't a celebrity hanger on whimsy to support as you feel , it is a connection that you take with both hands and stay with. Of course you live your own life but don't pick and choose , compassion for all or compassion for none.



Celebrities such as Stephen Fry , and the late Robin Williams raise the profile of those who are depressed and rightly so. Looking back on what you could of should have done is great but eyes on the future.


I have separated the wheat form the chaff or life has done it for me.


Don't get me wrong I miss old friends but I don't think for a minute they do the same , the feeling is momentary , fleeting.

I am not asking anyone to fight my corner , all I am asking for is continuity of friendship and if not then so be it.

I am here.

The other day I thought I was surviving and 10 % living the odd are getting better each day .

I can not make everything right, but I can live my life and learn.

Blackberry Apple Charlotte Sandwich

I love the lanes that surround where I live , they are my lifeblood my salvation and my sanctuary and I feel bless and very very lucky to live here. I am as I always saying surrounded my countryside I am a toes dip into suburbia but it s countryside suburbia and I have a farm at the bottom of my road. It is not unusual to have chicken crossing the road and a pheasant thinking it is road runner. Though I have yet to see one ,Roe deer hide in the woodland nearby ,where the badgers gently root around.

So here we come onto a Blackberry Apple Charlotte not your usual Charlotte but more of a sandwich where a jam filling.

Ingredients


400g Blackberries / 14 oz
10 slices any old bread (crust cut off , save crusts for breadcrumbs)
110g / 40z caster sugar
A couple of apples chopped  ( I only had one big one it seems a poor crop on the old apple bush this year)
Enough melted butter to to the bottom layer of the Charlotte.


Method


I preheated the oven to 220C/425F/Gas mark 7.

Next I heated the blackberries, chopped apple and sugar along with 2 -3 tablespoons of water. I gently heated them the blackberries and apples had softened.

Next I took the saucepan off the heat, I got a square brown tin and lined the button with slices of bread with the crusts off ( soaked in butter)

Making sure there we no gaps , I then worked my way round the edges.

Spooning you can hold off on some liquid if you wish but I promise you it will turn into a most beautiful jam/ jelly when baked.


Then seal the top of what will become your sandwich , you down have to soak these slices in butter if you don't wish I didn't

Bake in the oven for around 20 minutes and then serve with cream .

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