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October started with a celebration – 100,000 of you have hit on Easy Cheese Sauce.  I’m not really surprised as this recipe has generated lots of comments about how easy it is.  Lasagne is a popular meal and although it can be time consuming preparing the three components, it’s quite easy too.

So thank you everyone for looking for a cheese sauce recipe and letting me know your views.

This week was a lemon week for me– real lemons, not the ‘dog and lemon’ kind.  Our tree is overloaded and I’ve been making a lot of Lemon Honey and Ginger Syrup.  It’s a great winter warmer drink with hot (not boiling) water and very refreshing cold with mint leaves and ice after a hot day in the garden.

On Saturday I also made a Lemon Loaf – a delicious light cake-like loaf that is drizzled with lemon juice and sugar as soon as it’s taken out of the oven.  It only lasted 2 days so I obviously need to make another one soon.

I also made some Lemon Honey (also known as lemon cheese or lemon curd).  It a very strong lemon flavoured spread.

Sunday was warm and sunny so it was time to get out in the garden and clean up the raised beds ready for spring planting of lettuces, brassicas (cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage) and later this month when the cold nights have hopefully gone – tomatoes, zucchini, capsicums and aubergines.

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