Feelin' hot hot hot

This was the first year I've tried to grow chilli peppers.
They're on the kitchen windowsill, but not in full sun.
There was loads of flowers, followed (obviously) by little baby chilli's.
They all came out green and started to grow, then miraculously, the new baby ones were coming out red. So now we've got some green and some red on a plant. I have no idea why... but it looks really pretty!

A little cheeky snifter in the making

Fearing we were too late to pick raspberries for our annual Raspberry Vodka making session, I popped off to Sopley PYO to see if I could get any. I was in luck! The 'autumn raspberries' were just coming into plumpness and I was assured there was 'a few'. A few?! what, like 6?

So off we trotted (Kerys too) towards the Autumn raspberries. Yup, there was 'a few'... not loads but enough to fill 2 punnets - albeit taking slightly longer than we were used to.

Recipe
1 litre vodka
1 punnet of raspberries
250g granulated sugar

Use a sterilising tablet to sterilise your jar. Wash the raspberries, pop them in the jar. Pour over the vodka. Add the sugar. Stir. Pop in a cupboard. Stir once a week. After about 3 or 4 weeks, strain through a muslin into a bowl. Pour the lovely pinky vodka goodness into sterilised bottles. Enjoy!

PS. I don't even like vodka that much but this raspberry vodka is to DIE for - you can even drink it by the shot it's so lovely and sweet and raspberry-y

Come to mama!

I got a new Mac... I love it.
Mmmmmmmmmm!
Wireless mighty mouse and wireless little keyboard an' all.
It's like ACTUAL Christmas day...