Dill carrots

This is one of my favourite dishes and goes with just about any savoury dish. As you can see, I made some potatoe wedges as well .... just delicious

Peel and slice some carrots and onions (roughly 5 large carrots for 2-3 people and 2 medium sized onions)

Very gently fry carrots and onion in a little oil for around 20 minutes until the carrots look tender.

Add a tsp of dill seeds (I prefer not to use the dill seeds as they are hard to find, so it is optional but if you do use them, it does add a lovely flavour) and continue to fry for another two minutes.

Dilute 1 heaped and one ordinary tsp full of Marmite or any yeast extract in 2 cups of off the boil water and add to the carrots.

Continue to boil fast until liquid has boiled down to at least half and then simmer until the liquid is thicker and stronger looking.

Viola!




Kool Crafts and Arts

Tutorial - How to turn an old frame into a display

This is a display I made to show off some of my handmade hair clips.

I used an old frame I bought at a jumble sale for 20p. The frame was dark blue so I sanded it and painted it white and then sanded it again to give it the look you see in the photo. Then I took the back and used a nice wallpaper sample to cover the wood. The last step was to tie some elastic around the back part of the frame and mount everything back again.

This is what it looked like after assembly and before I put my hair clips on it.

For bigger displays use larger frames.