Making compost

Finally, instead of waiting till God only knows when for the money to spend on proper compost bin I have bought plastic compost bag for £3 in my supermarket. And finally my conscience was happy when making soup I didn't throw anything - I just put all the peelings aside to make compost :) Nothing's wasted.

For quite some time now I am trying to reduce our waste "production". We are doing our best at recycling but all the time it was bugging me how much raw stuff I throw away that could be used in composting. As I mainly cook from scratch there is always a lot of peelings. And there is usually some tired cucumbers or peppers of bananas that I can't force myself to eat but I don't want to throw away. And more often then I like there is a forgotten apple or tangerine on the bottom of the fruit bowl. So I could finally get rid of all this stuff and at the same moment produce something useful.
And then I remembered - you can also put eggshells in. So I made a banana loaf and voila: more things used, not wasted.

Now fingers crossed it will all turn into lovely, earthy compost and not just smelly bag of rotten waste.

In my kitchen today

While me and Zuzanna were making these:

for lunch (and these are called racuchy - mixture of egg, oats,bran,milk and grated apple,  fried and sprinkled with icing sugar) 

my little boys were busy with this:

I just couldn't believe how much fun they had with some rice and lentils... And the ratio of time spent on preparing and tidying up (maybe 2 minutes) to their playing time (25 minutes) just couldn't be better :))

In the making...

Took me a while from my first post but here I am. Perfect moments like this when Jan gave up to his afternoon nap, camera is at hand, I have a good light and offcourse my knitting on my lap - they don't happen very often. My plan is to capture some of them to share.

Sooo... on my needles today is jumper -to-be for my oldest son. It tok me quite some time to find a right yarn that is 

1) red, but not just plain red

2) at least aran weight

3) without any pink orpurple in it

4) in general suitable for nearly 10-year old.

Not an easy task. But I'vefound it. It is Sirdar Click Chunky in Wild, very soft and very quick to knit. the colours are just lovely, lots of red but balanced with blues and a touch of a pale green. The jumper will be knitted in knit-5-purl-2 rib, with raglan and three buttons at the neck. 

I actually started it in stokinette stitch with k2p2 rib but it didn't feel right, it wasn't hip enough. So I did a very brave thing: I ripped all the back and half of the front and started again. And for me that is an achievement, uusually I would either finish it against my will and hate it or just put it away for a few weeks, months, years... All the time feeling guilty for spending money on useless yarn and not finishing jumper for Bartosz. But I am back on track  and I feel epic :D. I just hope it will block nicely and won't be too close fitting :/.