Tuesday 19 May 2015

Painting with homemade brushes and using ground herb paint.


We cut the grass around the top raised bed today - it made for lovely brush bristles!  Here is Ibrahim trimming his brush after he'd help tie it to a stick




On the tray is paprika (all the way from Spain, sweet smoked paprika is particularly nice on grilled chicken) and ginger.  We added water and hey presto we had white and red paint.



We loved the smell of the herb painting but decided that the raised bed needed a coat of it too


We discovered green by crushing up the grass blades in our hands and Carmen suggest using tea for black/brown and orange juice for orange!  Good job Carmen brought some of her famous clove coffee and brioche after that as we were all hungry! 





Sunday 17 May 2015

And we're back in the room..

Thought you might like to see our nettle and wild garlic soup we cooked up on the allotment!