STUNNING Bathroom & Kitchen Remodels! 250 year OLD Irish Homestead
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- This is a HUGE episode! This week Rob has done a stunning job tiling both ensuites as part of the small bathroom remodel! Clare has finished the plastering in bathroom 1 and bedroom 1. Rob then moved down to the farmhouse kitchen makeover to transform the look with sensational lights. Finally Clare gives a tour of Clonakilty as she posts some of our Postcards to our community before cooking up some stunning Rice Pudding and Blackberry Compote as requested by another of our community. Not One you should miss!
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Try a bay leaf on the top before baking the rice pudding. 🇬🇧🐶
Nice tip 😊
Thanks for the tour of the town Clare, that was lovely! 💚 Great job on the tiling, the plaster, and the electrical, and your rice pudding looked delicious!! 😋❤️
Thanks so much! Horrendous day to show off beautiful Clonakilty 😊
Yes, to Rice pudding. Delicious! My mum was half Irish and so proud of it. Rice pudding was a favourite with all of us, and now 70 years later with me it still is . I loved the thought of blackberry topping. Thank you for wonderful memories.
Wonderful! Proud to be Irish ❤️
Lady you are a wonder,not manny women can do what you do,hurrah for you.❤❤❤😊
We just like to learn things and have fun 🥰
The Kids bedrooms end ensuites look fantastic. It must really feel like it's coming together now. Well done guys
Thanks guys, no hope of getting rid of the kids now 🤣
My mum used to make rice pudding when I was little. Im nearly sixty now, and you brought back some memories for me. You have inspired me to try to make it myself. Andrea, Australia.
I know right, this is exactly how I felt when we were asked to make it 😊
My northern Irish mammy used to make us rice puddings when we were kids (she moved to NZ with my dad just before I arrived into the world). Dad's favourite saying was "You couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding". Thanks for the memories
Love it, thank you for sharing 😊
Patience is a virtue
You really are getting there
WOW 😮
Patience is a virtue completely! 😊
Childhood favourite desserts - warm sweet rice, farola, or semolina topped with homemade raspberry jam
So lovely to hear about childhood memories and food makes for great memories, bad and good 🤣
Thank you so much for my second postcard, it was a lovely surprise. I love the tiles in the shower. Everything is starting to come together.
You are so welcome! Thank you 😊
Just watched this with my good lady. It was great to get to see a bit of Clon (her ancestral home town). We’d love to see more ‘out and about’ footage from you. You're in such a lovely part of the world (weather notwithstanding), so it'd be a shame not to share more of it with those of us who are cruelly deprived of it.
The rice pudding divided the room, though. I'm a HUGE fan of a proper rice pudding, and I would have made short work of the whole thing. Mrs H, however, not so much. The very mention of the skin-the best bit-had her making a noise like a faulty bilge pump. 😬
She doesn't know what she's missing!
All the best to you all!
Barry, we were in stitches after reading this! Love the Clon link, such a fabulous little town. Thank you for the great comment, especially the faulty bilge pump reference🤣
Mam always made it with raisins they were the good old days when everything tasted better ❤❤
Yes, many have said raisins were very much an Irish tradition 😊
Claire you are a trooper. Such a plethora of angles to plaster. I don’t envy you at all. Well done girl. And Rob, those unusual tiles look great in the showers.
I remember rice pudding as a child. It wasn’t my favourite dessert but I would have accepted anything sweet as we only had deserts once or maybe twice in the week. My mum was a good traditional cook, so we had lots of tarts, puddings (Eve’s pudding, queen of pudding, lemon meringue pie (a definite favourite). Semolina with jam, sago (yjuck frogspawn). She also made tea cakes ( with fruit soaked in tea) buns and sponges. And an orgy of baking ahead of Christmas with Christmas cakes (at least 6-8 to cover birthdays through the year and some for the ICA cake sale. And Christmas pudding which I love with loads of brandy butter.
How about making a lemon meringue?
Semolina, tea cakes, tarts, gosh memories from my youth unearthed! Thanks Maeve, yet again another of Rob's favourites, Lemon meringue😉
Clair amazing desert Omg and the bread ,So nice to see people still cook like this ,Fond memories of my Nana. Xx
Glad you enjoyed it, how lovely to hear from you x
Yes love rice pudding, but Mom always put raisins in ours, so good.
Raisins are obviously my missing ingredients 😊
Claire, you are amazing with your plastering skills. I have tried it and it is not as easy as one would think. I’m holding my opinion of the black tile with the white. I’m sure when grouted out it may look better. Keep up the great work! My mouth is watering for that bread! I love the lights and I would find a length that would work and not depend on changing the length. Chances are after a few weeks you would get use to the height and never change them.
So true about the light! Yes plastering is incredibly unforgiving and I struggle alot with it, however this was the challenge, to take on as much as we could ourselves and learn new skills 😊
Try doing your bread in your cast iron casserole. Line with non stick baking parchment. Dust a bit of polenta in the bottom. Heat the pot up to heart of the sun. Carefully drop the proved dough in (good oven gloves necessary. Slash the top. 20 minutes lid on and 20 lid off. Amazing rise and chewy crust 😊 Don’t forget to set your timer😮
Thanks for the tip! Heart of the sun, love it!
Am from Scotland and we had rice pudding but with condensed milk it was the best
Interesting, I wonder would you cut out the sugar then, I may have to try this 😊
Great episode!
I must say I too love my rice pudding. I remember in school lunches the servers put tinned mandarin orange slices on top of it. Now and then I want some,infact had some a week ago.
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Clair you’re such a sweetheart, and like me you are somewhat of a perfectionist, which is to be proud of. It’s all coming together now, not long to go. You’ll be so glad to get it done inside the house and so proud of all your work, especially how good your diligence on the plastering has payed off. All the best, Maureen.
Aww thanks, it's all coming together, every day is like Xmas as we tick off a few projects!
Rice yum. Tiles grand. Lights good. Getting there. 😊😊
Thank you so much 😊
Clair put your mixed plaster in a sealed container it lasts a long time What is the best way to store ready-mix compound for another use?
Clean sides and lid of container so no dried compound falls into the mixture. Level joint compound surface with a knife and cover container tightly. If storing, cover leveled surface of joint compound with approximately 1/2" of clean water and cover container tightly. Pour off water before reusing joint compound. Do not store in direct sunlight and protect from extreme heat and cold. The shelf life of an unopened container is up to nine months under proper storage conditions. Carry on your doing a great job!
Thank you for this advise. I had never thought of storing mixed joint compound 😊
Excellent job on sheetrock and tile. Not easy but you’ll have pride in your work for many years to come.
Hope so! Pride or repairs... One or the other 🤣
It's better to wear knee pads always. Your body will thank you in years to come. Also keep a damp rag to wipe cement off tile face before it hardens😊
Going for a big push towards the finish line folks, this isn't even a marathon - it's an ultra, keep your chin up!!
You guys are rockstars in the new kitchen, absolutely love rice pudding. Making me very hungry watching you enjoy that. Funny was reading about Lemon Balm the other day, and got distracted by a Monty Don video talking about how fragrant Lemon Verbena is. This has just pushed me over the buy it edge. Not frost hardy though right? You have it as a house plant?
Thanks guys, slow old man shuffle to the end might be how I would describe how we feel. But look its so worth it.
Yes Lemon Verbena, does better inside. I'm trying to tame mine into a small bush shape however it loves climbing for the light. Can't remember if it's from Delish or Future Forests, great for tea also.
Irish parents , real rice pudding , macaroni pudding , picked blackberries from the hedgerows on a Sunday after church , apple pies by the hundredweight , boiled bacon with spuds and cabbage (cabbage boiled in the bacon water ) , comfort food , happy memories
Macaroni! That's a blast from the past, ooh might have to give that one a go 😊
Loving the geometric tiles. Such a transformation. 🙌😊
Thanks Jill! 😊
❤ rice pudding, my mum used to make it as 'use up oven space' dish when the sunday dinner meat was cooking. It was made with Evaporated 'Carnation' milk - we loved it. No fruit was added, but blackberries sounds good addition 😊.👍
Very economical with the oven heat. That sounds familiar, I'm sure my mother would try to do the same 😊
Yes, I love rice pudding! My mother made it often. She was 1st generation American. Her mother came over (on her own!) to the states at 16
It's amazing the recipes and traditions we bring 🥰
The tile looks great.
Thank you so much 😊
On rice pudding looks delicious. We had it with raisins . Cheap and cheerful here in Canada. Although I loved it my favourite was homemade bread pudding. Irish and Scottish decent so not sure if bread pudding is Irish but would love to see you make it. Sure saves throwing away stale bread. Thanks Meg
Yes someone else mentioned bread pudding something I know very little about, might have to give this a try 😊
Never be short of a drop of milk just get your little milking stool and the charolais over the fence may oblige.Lemon verbena tea so refreshing.Ri ce pudding with currants was a favourite in that house over the years plus a egg the stuff of memories
Gosh stop don't get me started, kinda thinking we may need a cow the way Ash drinks pints of milk😉
Thank you so much for making the Irish rice pudding for me!!! Oh my goodness, I was so surprised! I can’t wait to make the recipe myself. Such memories of my grandmother and grandpa! Thank you again!!
You are so welcome! We absolutely loved making it, so thank you😊
I actually made rice pudding yesterday. Great if your tummy is tender.
So true, perfect comfort and actually healthy food!
I’m Swedish American and grew up having rice pudding. Yum
How lovely to hear that you have this is Sweden too😊
Loving the geometric tiles. Such a transformation. Also really enjoy the cooking/baking bits sandwiched (see what I did there) between the DIY. It gives a window on your domestic life. You’re both amazing cooks. Blimey, that was a risk with predictive text! 🤣
Love it Jill🤣 Domestic life full of cooking. I don't love cooking, it's more of chore to feed the fam. Rob's loves cooking, never follows a recipe and never gets cross of it goes wrong 🤣
Growing up, our rice pudding always had raisins in it. We never put a sauce or berries on it but that sounds great
Nice, that sounds like the porridge I used to have as a child, it always has raisins. As a result I was never that fond of raisins, however there were no other breakfast options 🤣
@@WestCorkWander right?? Not options like today, and we ate what was set in front of us
I checked the recipe ,, Risalamande ( danish rice pudding) I think my mum used black cherries in syrup n Ribena some how ,
Ahh someone else mentioned it being a swedish thing, so great to hear it's also a danish desert also😊
Aah Clare , my dad was danish n every Christmas we’d have rice pudding with almonds,raisins and a black current sauce, I can just taste it ❤ bringing back good memories,, tks❤
How lovely, actually blackcurrant sauce/jam could be very good 😊
Cod bless the beautiful family,🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are so kind! Thanks!
🎉Awesome 🎉❤
Thank you 😊
Duh!!! Butter AND jam thank you very much!!
This mix is Clare food. Either or is Rob food 🥰
Omg, I love rice pudding! Thank you for sharing this. I usually add maple syrup on top( I’m from Canada), but will try blackberries next time. Such a good and wholesome comfort food. Thank you and be well. Can’t wait until your next video. 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦
Oh that sounds delish 🤞 well use our own honey soon!!
Always & I cooked it for my family🎉
It's so good!
Nice job.
Thanks! 😊
You really are getting things buttoned up. The bathrooms look great!
I can't wait to get my card and already have the frame bought for it so it matches the other one of the house lol!
Great video, thank you.
Ahh lovely, sorry it's on its way, slight delay in posting, but you should have it soon 😊
Love rice pudding !! We always had it as kids and I still make it now ! Choice of topping is homemade damson jam 😊 delicious
Oh damson jam, that is a blast from the past, how lovely 😊
Thanks always delighted for the net “episode”
I’m from upstate New York. My Grandma was from Newfoundland and was the oldest of many. My aunt was a great cook but one time camping she made rice pudding that was so awful that even the dog wouldn’t eat it! Turns out she used water from the trailer that had been in there too long. From then on it was called trailer pudding and I’ve been adverse to it since. Lol
Hahah trailer pudding, perhaps one recipe noted here we won't try 🤣🤣
RICE PUDDING AND BREAD PUDDING
Bread pudding, that's actually something we have never made 🤔
The bathrooms are looking fabulous, I love the different lights, and I love rice pudding the skin is my favourite bit lol my mam would use condensed milk and cream if we were short on milk my dad loved his tea so had to keep milk for him lol ❤
Haha keeping the milk for the tea! That happens in this house now. Someone else also mentioned the condensed milk, interesting 🤔
Great tiles, lovely little town you live in, now I need to make rice pudding, not eaten it since my mum used to make it was delicious she was a great cook ❤
Always a simple dish overlooked. We gotta make it more often too!
Pendant lights should be a 1 foot above the tallest person sitting at the island.
Wow thank you for this advice 🙂
Clare would you share your Slept Bread recipe? I have tried MANY but they never look as good as yours in the middle!
Coming in the next week 😉👌
Clare, your going to end up with arms like an Olympic shot putter after all that plastering 🤣 That rice pudding looks amazing
Already there 🤣
Just wondering what pudding rice is, l have never seen any rice called that. I love rice pudding, bread pudding and custard in any form.
Pudding rice is short grain white rice. Sometimes it is actually called pudding rice, but when looking for it you can look for short grain 😊
Are the geometric types flat or are there cutouts? I hope they’re flat because cutouts will make grouting harder. Looks great though. Plaster looks awesome Clare ✌️💚
Err no they are indented Trish🙈 crap, clearly you have experience with this type!
Just saw the grout on today’s video and it looks flawless
Actually Trish I was quite impressed with it myself, thankyou. I was so worried as my first grout job in the downstairs bathroom was a disaster as I left the grout dry on the tiles.
Hi! Rob & Clare enjoying watching how you have progressed from last week......I have a quick question for Rob.....Rob should you not be using spacers between each tile to allow you to grout between the tiles to prevent water ingress??.....You more than likely have the situation in hand but I'm just concerned about the tiles which are sitting on top of each other and trying to apply the grout between them!!!
Ah yes he has spacers in, but thank you for the tip 😊
Haa well let’s say it’s Scandinavian makes me wonder if the Vikings brought the tradition to Ireland or took it from Ireland 😂
I'm confused. How do you fit in the tiny shower.
Both showers are standard size. They must look small on the camera🤔
Excuses excuses go get the ladder
Yes mam 😉
If you’re not plastering all the wall try using Arten it lasts a lot longer and can be knocked back with warm water I know i was a spred for 43 years and afterwards wipe with a warm sponge good luck 👍❤️
Arten, I have not heard of this, I will look into it. Thank you for the tip 😊
My Mom cooks raisins in her rice pudding but I don’t know if it’s something she grew up with or if raisins were an American spin. 😋 This video was a nice treat to come home to. Got bad news today about my knee so I needed you guys tonight. Why have 1 surgery when you can have 3? 🦴 😑 ✌️💚
Sorry to hear about your knees Trish, I can imagine it's the rest time which takes the time and immobilizes you. take care of yourself x
Sorry it’s Artex not Arten bloody predictable text 👍❤️