Lunch is served

When Heather insisted that I join the Lemurian Abbey I really did hesitate for a whole host of reasons. She has often talked about the internet and all the people she works with in cyber space but it felt like this was her private world and that I would be intruding. I should have known better. I used to attend some of Heather's writing classes before I moved to the country and they were always fantastic. We sat around her table and wrote and always had brilliant suppers.

I am not sure why it never occurred to me that I would be made so welcome here. Thanks so much Winnie, Ana, Irene and Barbara. I was very encouraged to hear that the smell of my scones drew you down into the kitchen. You can come and help me whip up things any time you like Winnie.

Call me Bonny! Whenever Mum called me Ebony it sounded like I was in trouble and usually I had been sprung doing something that I shouldn't have been doing. I remember once a friend and I convinced a neighbours little girl that cold cream was icecream. Sandra and I hid when we were called that time. We knew that we really better make ourselves scarce. It took us some time to live that little debacle down.

Dad just wandered in from the garden with fresh eggs from the chooks. They have been laying quite well.

So I thought that with a couple of dozen eggs I could whip us up a delicious lunch. What I am going to do is cut some smoked ham off the bone and grate some tasty cheese. I will lay some ham, cheese and chives in the muffin plates and then fill them with a mixture of eggs and a little milk. When they are cooked we will have tiny muffin sized frittatas with Salad. There are plenty of salad vegetables growing near the wild garden and I have some fresh tomatoes that are just delicious. I will add some avocado and capsicum and then pour over a dressing of lemon and oil with black pepper and a touch of mustard. Dad also dug up some new potatoes and I thought I would put a whole lot of them in the pot and dress them with butter and parsley.

Has anyone got any suggestions for dessert? I will make a range of herbal teas and coffee for us but it would be great to have something sweet to finish off on out in the el Fresco garden area of the abbey.