Recovery!!

Usually, the day after we go to the Cheshire Oaks we have a stay in day. It's quite a lot of driving and walking around, and since VT does all the driving he needs a breather. I had bought a lot of tins of tomatoes from various places during the past few weeks, so we dicided to make our bqatch of tomato sauce for our pizzas. I got some quite cheap ones from Lidl last week 39p a tin so used some of those. They were a bit thinner than the more expensive brands but fine for what we were doiing.
We used our very big pan,
Tomato sauce
5 tins of chopped tomatoes tomatoes
one chopped red onion
A good spoonful of Italian herbs
A tsp of sugar,
A very good squirt of tomato puree
A very good squirt of garlic puree
Some seasoning
A teaspoon of bouillon powder.
Then you simply let it simmer for hours until it is thick and reduced. Leave it to cool, we put it into a sink of cold water, then pot it up. We use the little tubs that we used to get baby mozzarella balls in because they stack very well in the freezer.
Perfect. We get between 10-12 pots so that does us about three months. The downside is that the house smells like an Italian restaurant for hours afterwards..so it's on with the Yankee candle air fresheners.
I waxed my hair this morning with my OJON wax..it's a great conditioner, but smells horrible, but you do get used to it. Then a lovely bath this afternoon with my book and my candles..Bliss..it's great this retirement lark!
VT has spent ages on the front garden this morning..weeding etc and it's loking great now. Really tidy. Don't think ke wore his hat though. He got a lovely straw hat yesterday from the M&S outlet store, and it makes him look very distinguished indeed.
Tonight we are having:
Cheesy kievs meatfree,
Squashed potatoes
Mixed vegetables.