Today we’d thought about travelling over to Edinburgh, but the clouds simply wouldn’t lift and the weather was going to be worse in the east.
Instead, we spent most of the morning deciding what we were going to have for dinner. We were going through an old recipe book “Home by Seven Dinner by Eight” that we used to use all the time. We found a few recipes that would work for today and finally settled on “Salmon, Asparagus, Pancetta, Tomatoes and Potatoes Traybake” as today’s dinner. So we needed Salmon, Asparagus and Pancetta, the rest we had. Off we went to get the fish at a new stall that had opened up recently in the grounds of the garden centre. Two big slabs of salmon, some smoked haddock, some unsmoked haddock and an Arbroath Smokie. A bit more expensive than Tesco, but the fish looked good.
On the way home we did drop in at Tesco for some odds and ends, but forgot to get the asparagus and the pancetta. That didn’t matter, because I was intending going out again after lunch and I would get the remaining ingredients then.
Back home and after lunch and after I’d been to Tesco for the second time today, we settled in the garden. Me to take photos initally and Scamp to read. I got a PoD in the garden. It was one of Scamp’s plants grown from seeds we got down south in April. It’s called Cerinthe and has blue/green leaves and purple flowers almost hidden from view by the leaves. Almost hidden, but the bees find them no problem. A beer and a book afterwards to relax in a cloudy, but just warm enough temperature before dinner.
Because the dinner was a traybake, it was dead easy to make. It only took about 20mins in the oven and it tasted as good as it looked in the book.
Despite the driving here and there, it was a fairly relaxing day. Tomorrow Scamp is hoping that her crown will be ready and that it will fit this time!