BBQs, cookbooks and sewing

I bought myself a BBQ - we had an old 4 burner that was really hard to light and I would never use it. I wanted something I could use and enjoy.

We had built a covered deck on the side of the house and younger son (Bill the builder) cut a hole in the wall of the house and put in double french doors. It gave us a big outdoor room 5m x 8m. I put some pot plants along the side of the deck to hide to old garage (I'm am the world's best a killing plants) and amazingly a lot of the have survived.

Anyway, when I am cooking outside I have a problem with bities wanting to carry off the food or me so decided that was a good enough excuse to make a small throwover to keep beside the BBQ.

I got some lovely violets embroidery designs from S-embroidery and felt they would be perfect, 1/2m organza and away I went.

I was please the way it turned out, of course it was purple and one of my most favourite flowers.......

Now I can concentrate on cooking istead of batting flies with one hand.

I have been scouring all my cookbooks (I collect them) and decided new BBQ - new cookbook so lashed out and found some great BBQ books to experiment with. Hopefully the family won't get sick of BBQs before I get sick of cooking them.

Last thing I cook? De boned chicken marinated in honey and mustard served with smashed potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato with cinnamon and a green salad on the side.