A day ago, I made a simple blackberry coulis. Most of this I stored as frozen cubes. To be used in future mocktails, cocktails, ice cream or frozen desserts. The sky’s the limit?!

I have a small jar of this coulis in the fridge. It is supposed to last a few days. I need to think of ways to use it up.

The in-laws gave me about two kilograms of home-grown tomatoes a few days ago. The very ripe tomatoes were strained for tomato juice. Most of the seeds were removed and sowed into the vegetable patch. I cooked the rest of the tomatoes into a rustic sauce, adding to it half a bell pepper, an onion, and a clove of garlic. After the sauce cooled, I scooped it into two containers and placed these into the freezer.

Two days ago, I turned one of D’s worn-out long sleeve t-shirt into a sleeveless pajama for myself. The cut off sleeves were repurposed into two vacuum bags. I also made carré confituur that same afternoon.

Yesterday, I planted out the young lettuce plants I was growing indoors. Hopefully, these will grow better in the cooler temperatures we are having right now. I then sowed some lettuce seeds into old yogurt containers for the next batch of mid summer greens. After the gardening, I pitted, halved and froze a tray of plums. One can only eat that many plums in a day!

Today, I double-bagged the frozen plums. I will use these for galette, cake or jam later in the year. I then turned half a bag of over-dated bean sprouts, which I got from the in-laws yesterday, into a Korean sprout salad. I cooked and ate some of the shrimps (also free like the sprouts) for lunch and will cook up the rest this evening. For dinner this evening, I shall cook up the free and over-dated ready-to-cook wok noodles kit.