Saturday moments – Sunday projects became a quiet weekend with broth simmering, seeds in candy boxes, and thoughts about slow living and life here and now.
We went into town for a bit today. Bought what we needed — and a few things that simply followed us home.
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👉 Här och nu i köket – buljong, te och slow living på mitt sätt
We went into town for a bit today.
Bought what we needed and a few things that just happened to come home with us.
Now my husband is in the kitchen cooking and I get to spend some time with you and the blog.
I’m sitting here with the laptop in my lap and a cup of tea beside me.
And out there in the kitchen there’s a whole pot of tea waiting for me to enjoy.
It’s one of those moments that doesn’t look like much from the outside.
Nothing remarkable. Just a home where someone chops onions, someone writes, and life gets to be exactly as ordinary as it is.
🌱 Slow living or simply here and now
Saturday moments – Sunday projects
My husband sent me a link about slow living.
I feel like that’s something I’m quite skilled at.
But I have another name for it: here and now.
I enjoy cooking slowly and today we even found meat bones on sale.
I’ve been wanting to make broth the way I did when I worked in a kitchen.
Long cooking, roasted bones, and time doing its quiet work.
It’s a project that takes hours, but as I remember it — every hour was worth it.
The chef bought stock, but I made broth from onion skins and whatever else was around.
When I worked in the kitchen, customers often wanted to thank the chef.
That’s something I’m proud of even if it feels like a hundred years ago.
I once made a chicken stew people talked about for ages, asking when it would be the dish of the day again.
Well… enough bragging for now.
For me, Saturday moments – Sunday projects became a reminder of how calm lives in the simple things.
Giving food time is being here and now — maybe that is slow living.
🍲 The broth simmering on the stove
Here and now — or slow living as it’s called.
A broth simmering with carrots, onion skins, bay leaves, peppercorns, a splash of vinegar and whatever I found in the fridge.
There will be meat scraped from the bones and broth saved for soup.
And surely some left for sauces too.
I like using what we have.
Leftover meat becomes pasta.
Leftover mashed potatoes become soup.
You name it — I’m creative with leftovers.
Giving food time is being here and now. Maybe that is slow living.
🍲 Saturday moments – Sunday projects in one breath
Here and now — or slow living.
A broth gently simmering with carrots, onion skins, bay leaves, peppercorns, a splash of vinegar and small things found in the fridge.
Meat will be scraped from the bones and broth saved for soup.
Some will likely become sauces too.
I like making use of what remains.
Leftover meat becomes pasta.
Leftover mashed potatoes become soup.
You know — I’m creative with leftovers.
🌿 Giving something back to the earth
I read that coffee grounds can help keep slugs away in the garden.
Good thing I have a coffee machine — I’ve started collecting both coffee grounds and tea leaves.
It feels good not just to throw things away but to return them to the earth they came from.
Today we bought soil and my son brought home empty candy boxes from work.
That’s where I’ll try winter sowing.
It feels exciting — tomorrow’s project.
Flowers, bulbs and all sorts of things will grow there.
The growing season has begun and I’ll also fill a planter in the greenhouse with spinach and lettuce.
I plan to sow in stages.
Maybe buying lettuce will no longer be necessary — I’ll grow it myself.
📺 Sunday — a quiet morning and small projects
Sunday began early and quietly.
I spent some time with SEO trying to find a post that had an error message.
Then I got caught up in a Polish series on Netflix about a doctor in 1970s Poland fighting the state after children died from lead poisoning.
A powerful and frightening story about corruption, silence and unheard people.
Not my usual kind of series — but worth watching.
Afterwards I started my winter sowing project.
First drilling holes in the candy boxes — harder than I thought.
With my husband’s help we ended up with around 20 small boxes filled with seeds in the garden.
Today I even heard the cuckoo.
Now my husband is cooking cabbage pudding with boiled potatoes.
And the broth — yes, it turned out beautifully.
Lots of meat for soup and a deep, rounded flavour.
Small things like these make Saturday moments – Sunday projects more than just a weekend.
🌙 An ordinary moment
The broth simmers slowly.
A project that takes time — but gives more than it takes.
Maybe that is slow living.
Letting things take time.
Using what we have.
Sitting here with tea while someone else cooks and life gets to be simple and beautiful.
💬 Reflection Saturday moments – Sunday projects
Saturday moments – Sunday projects in one breath.
It strikes me how much of life lives in the simple things.
A pot simmering.
A pot of tea waiting.
The thought that growing your own food is possible.
Small actions carrying a sense of enoughness.
Maybe calm lives right there — in what doesn’t need to be more than it is.
Looking back at Saturday moments – Sunday projects, it’s really about presence.
✨ AHA – Saturday moments – Sunday projects
Between the lines is a woman who understands the value of time.
Who knows leftovers can become nourishment, soil can become life and a quiet moment can become recovery.
This is not a text about slow living.
It is a text about living gently.
With yourself, with food and with life.
🌿 What is given time often tastes deeper — both in the pot and in life.
I wrote earlier about slow living and everyday presence here:
👉 Here and now
In the weekend library I gather more texts about everyday life, presence and small projects:
👉 Weekend library
✨ Yesterday rests in history. Tomorrow waits ahead.
But right now — this is where life happens.
Homemade bone broth with time and love
Here’s the broth recipe — use what you have. The secret is simply time.
You don’t need to peel the onion; the skins give deeper flavour and colour.
Roast the bones
👉 200°C for 25–35 minutes until browned
This creates deeper flavour and richer broth.
Place in slow cooker
Cover with water.
Add:
- onion
- carrot
- bay leaves
- peppercorns
- optional splash of apple cider vinegar
Cook 12 hours on low.
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