Most of you think up catchy titles for your posts. I keep going back to the same ones over and over.
M came up before school to show us the T-shirt his Mom found at the thrift store.
I suspect you know that 'pain' is the French word for bread. ( M is in French Immersion at school).
He also wanted to show us the sailboat/ship he built using no pattern, just his imagination.
The black piece in front is the sail and it is adjustable . He has a lot of fun with his Lego..
In the kitchen it was time to use up 3 very ripe bananas. Banana bread ( or loaf, if you prefer) is so fast and easy to make.
I wanted to show the difference between a coffee cup and a tea cup for those who are interested.
The coffee cup is on the left and as you can see it has a very plain handle and straighter sides.
The tea cup is more shapely and the handle is quite curved.
By the way, did you know that the tea cup shape is called Montrose? If you want to know more about the names of the various shapes go to Royal Albert Cup Shapes. It's worth a peek.
We had another lovely day here and besides my work in the kitchen I got a lot of cleaning up done in the garden with the help of my DH and after school M also helped. Still lots to do though.
Thanks for stopping by,
Granny Marigold
The T shirt made me smile. I love this time of year harvesting and preserving in readiness for the Winter. What a coincidence I made banana bread yesterday too.
ReplyDeleteInteresting about the difference in the cups. I would have thought they were both tea cups.
ReplyDeleteYour grandson's shirt made me smile. I am thinking it will make his teacher smile too. His Lego creation is impressive as well. We just gave our grandson the Legos his daddy played with.
Your apples look yummy.
I tried using a dehydrator for fruit and wasn't pleased with the texture. I never could get it right so I gave the dehydrator to my son to make jerky with. I love banana bread and yours looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting the information about tea cups and coffee cups! I knew there was a difference but was never sure about it. I guess it makes sense that the tea cup is a little more curvy and fragile looking. I learned something new today thanks to you!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this will make it any easier for you, but I'll tell you how I prep my apples for the dehydrator. I cut them in half from stem to blossom end. If there is a bruise I position the apple to cut through that. I use a melon baller (lots of those at the thrift store!) to scoop out the core, ends and any bruises or other spots I might want to remove. If it is a big apple I put cut side down, take off a thin sliver of skin on one side and then slice from that side, top to bottom, across to the other side. If it is a small apple I balance it on it's side, cut edge facing away from me, and once again slices go from top to bottom. In other words each slice includes the top and the bottom of the apple. Hope that makes sense! I find I can almost keep up with Larry placing the slices on the trays; the cutting, coring and slicing goes quite fast.
ReplyDeletePS And I do pears the same way. If you haven't dried pears yet, you should! :-)
ReplyDeleteI made banana bread this week too. And you have inspired me to finally use my dehydrator and dry some apples.
ReplyDeleteI love tea cups. Sadly I had to leave my collection in the UK when I moved here four years ago.. but Im starting to build again. Yours is very pretty
Phoebe x
My kids and grands all loved to play with Legos. I enjoyed playing with them too, Legos and the kids. : )
ReplyDeleteWe had a lovely sunny day too.
Your grandson did good making his ship. Even at my age I love to play with legos!! I do know the difference between a coffee cup and a tea cup but I still love to sometimes drink my coffee from a tea cup!
ReplyDeleteWhat a talented boy . . . maybe he'll be an engineer one day and design real boats. Your apples look lovely, I am drying some hot peppers to grind into spices. We also put up 14 pints of pickled hot pepper mix. I'm trying to get the end of my canning done and get the garden cleaned out before frost. It's always a guessing game. I need more tomatoes for a Sweet & Sour recipe that a blogging sister gave me, but I also would like to get all my tomatoes pulled. Hopefully we won't get frost for another month, but it has been getting chilly at night, so who knows.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely weekend.
Connie :)
That's a cute shirt!
ReplyDeleteGood for you, cleaning the garden.
I didn't know that about the shape of cups. I think mine are all (though not many) tea cups.
ReplyDeleteI discovered this week that I have *more* bananas in the freezer to use up. I think I'll try a different recipe this time, one not so rich, and maybe a tad more resistible!
That's a neat Lego ship your grandson built. Your banana bread looks delicious. I made banana nut bread last week. I didn't know that about the shape of cups. Glad to have learned that. Thank you. Not that I find that many :(
ReplyDeleteI'm longing to get out in the yard and clean up after the hurricane. Hubby has done a lot, but the flower/herb beds are a fright -- too many mosquitoes out there still, though!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the hint about the Royal Albert website! That was very fun, and it helped me to realize which shapes I like, and which ones I don't. Preferences about teacups are quite distinct, and I wonder why? I like the broad "smooth shape" cups best, or the Doris or the Countess perhaps. I don't like the curvy ones like Avon as much. Although, of course they are all very pretty :)