Work To Live

Nothing beats a pasta sauce made out of fresh tomatoes. We rarely buy tinned tomatoes (other than for Lee's chilli) and have not used a pre-made pasta sauce since our student days but buying / growing fresh tomatoes and cooking them up for a pasta sauce is time consuming. We normally choose to have pasta when we need something quick and filling, usually just before we're heading out to play Racketball or Badminton.  With a glut of tomatoes from the greenhouse this year, we decided to try making our pasta sauces and freezing them. When we need a sauce, we can take one out of the freezer and either microwave or heat it up on the hob whilst the pasta is cooking.   To make the sauces, we took a very large pan, filled it up with fresh tomatoes and let them boil down into a sauce. Seasoned with salt and pepper and then divided up into freezer pots with enough sauce for 2 portions. Normally I would have given the tomatoes a little blitz with the hand blender but it was packed so...

The blog has been quiet during the Covid-19 lockdown. Somehow we seem busier than ever with less to do! With summer over, the weather getting cooler and the nights drawing in, I am going to try to catch up on the writing. Some entries, such as this one, are going to look at activities we have done despite the restrictions. Other entries are going to look at back things we did before lock down which we are hoping will start up again in the new year. And lastly, I will be trying to catch up on some of the fantastic places we have been on holiday which I will reminisce over and ready ourselves to start planning for 2021 (or maybe 2022)! With our plans for 2 weeks off in September cancelled due to travel restrictions, we decided to take the time off anyway. We would spend the first week leisurely clearing out the kitchen and dining room and then spend the second week out and about avoiding the noise and dust as the whole kitchen was stripped out and walls knocked down. We did consider canc...