Even when it is cold. Very cold. We still hang washing on the clothesline to dry.
Sometimes the garments freeze solid! But eventually they dry!!
If it is snowing we hang the laundry on racks inside. Our clothes last twice as long plus it uses no energy to dry them. This is not a choice. The dryer died years ago and has never been replaced.
Some of the ways I use leftovers from a feast day.
Make stock from the bones
Roasted vegetable salad
Grandmas Rissoles
Fried rice
Frittata
Soup
My all time favorite, of course, is to fry the potatoes in salted butter and eat them hot and crispy. (My breakfast this morning!).
What is your favorite way to use leftovers?
Hmm – this might be another mini ebook. We could call it Eat the Fridge.
We had a small delightful thanksgiving lunch yesterday with two of Our John’s children. The matriarch is in Missouri and it was laid back and delightful. Just a gentle lunch amongst family friends.
It is very windy this morning. We will be working outside in the cold. Cold is mean when it is blowing.
Ten days to go before (if all goes well) my plane takes off from Chicago to LA, LA to NZ, NZ to Melbourne. (There is almost no chance all three of those flights line up but I will get there eventually). And I arrive into summer!
Something I am looking forward to!
Have a lovely day.
See you Sunday when I publish the TKG SUNDAY Newsletter with some leftovers recipes!
Love Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
34 responses to “tea towels below freezing”
I haven’t seen frozen washing for a while. It’s frosty here, but I had to undo my coat when cycling back up the mountain!
Cycling will warm you up!
It certainly did!
I can still see the work pants standing at attention beside the space heater, and nothing smells better than laundry after it’s thawed and dried…
Such a lovely memory Celi, thank you!
yes!!! Ha! We have the wood fire going non stop so there is always a corner to warm the laundry back up!
And nothing feels warmer than a wood fire burning in the stove❤️
Yes! I remember as well a few of those stand up clothing pictures 🙂
Yes, so do I! (And the pants were most likely taller than I was when our photos were taken; )
We are at 35 degrees this morning but our lovely blanket of fog has left. I woke up hoping to see that again this morning. “Eat the Fridge” would be a brilliant small book. I made a roasted veg hash of sorts for my dinner yesterday and have 2 small bowls of leftovers. One will be topped with a fried egg for breakfast this morning.
Hash! This is a good word. I will use that!
We always had hash topping with mustard pickles. Yum!
Nothing better than fried leftover potatoes. My sister cooked a huge turkey and is bringing me the carcass so I can make stock. And I love roasting nearly any kind of veg or putting them in casseroles of various kinds with other leftovers. Love the idea of your “Eat the Fridge” book!
did you ever see that movie Eat the Rich? Very black humour. I saw it years ago!! And laughed!
That photo is just gorgeous. For some reason it looks like a very meticulous watercolor painting. Not one of those photo-realistic ones (those are amazing but not nearly so pleasing). This is softer and more atmospheric. Just lovely!
the tea towels? I like it too. It tells many stories.
Have not seen it! Need to search for it!
No I was thinking (for some reason) that this one was the header picture. It’s the one of Jude eating with the fence and barn behind him and the bare tree limbs splayed out across the blue sky. Love it!
Oh yes. That is a good shot. Big pig. Big sky.
Remember that you can screen shot and keep any of my photos. I don’t mind!
No dryer here either. I think in our 42 years together we had a dryer maybe two of those years before giving it away. I know my hubby has shirts that are over thirty years old so yes, clothes definitely last longer when they are not put in the dryer. We were not quite as cold as you this morning. It was 32° when I got up at 5:30. Glad you enjoyed your Thanksgiving lunch!
Good morning! I like sun dried sheets! And towels too. Dryers are frightful for releasing microplastics. (As are washing machines to be fair). But mostly I hate paying to have clothes dried – when we can usually find a sunny day. I call it solar drying and the young people look about for a solar powered gadget?😂
I love the smell of outdoor dried clothing and sheets, but alas, I now live in a condo, so that won’t happen, but I am one who uses every leftover in some way
Oh yes! I remember my mum hanging laundry outdoors when we were kids and things would be as stiff as a board. I can’t get to my clothesline for most of the winter because of the snow, but I do hang my clothes to dry indoors and only use the dryer for sheets and towels.
My mom used to use her clothesline a lot and I loved the feel and smell of the sheets. However, the towels would scratch my skin off. LOL Younger Daughter lived in South Korea for a year–no dryers there and it did get cold. It took some of her sweaters a LONG time to dry. Happy Travels to you!
I did not realize that they don’t use dryers in South Korea. – we dried a lot on racks in the UK too!
Hello! I don’t like cold when it is blowing, either, as it is here today, too. Bundle up! Patti
No dryer here either. A Hills Hoist in the backyard. A verandah. Ceiling fans. Woodfire. Clothes horses.
I think Eat the Fridge will be brilliant. We joke we should open a cafe serving just nanna/grandma food/leftovers.
I deliberately precook a lot of our food… did you know this in many cases -eg potatoes/sweet potatoes, pasta, bread- considerably lowers their glycaemic index.
… precook and refrigerate or freeze, that is.
Oh – that is interesting!
I hang clothes out or over clothes horses inside. I remember years ago washing freezing on the line….but we rarely have cold enough weather these days for that to happen. Sheets always smell so good when they have been hung outside.
Hi Celi, I was just mentioning summer ‘down under’ since I am in regular contact with Judith in NZ. I love winter here in southwest Ontario but envy summer there! Doesn’t make sense but that is the way it is. Have a wonderful day! Chris
We are curious creatures!
One of the things I miss about living up a mountain in NSW is the smell of fresh laundry drying around my woodburning stove. I had two collapsible wooden laundry racks on castors, and arranged correctly, I could dry large bedsheets, etc, quite well. Here in Queensland, I line dry things, but under cover as the sun is so strong it bleaches and degrades fabrics. I do agree that line drying beats dryers hands down.
Cooking/eating the fridge is one of our favourite meals, and has produced some sensational results. The only downside is that they’re impossible to replicate!
Yes! Oh that is so true! We can never do it twice!