When Andrew’s parents came to visit from Wales recently, we thought it would be nice to have a pretend Christmas dinner with a three course meal, crackers and wine. I don’t like turkey at the best of times though, and so chose chicken as our meat of choice for the dinner. What we had was […]
profiteroles
Comfort food
I have been feeling poorly these past couple of weeks with a chest infection. It’s slowly starting to clear (I think), but I have been a bit lazy with my cooking because I haven’t felt 100%. Looking back at my diary I see that I didn’t eat as badly as I imagined and did start […]
Cake, bread and more cake
I made my mum’s 60th birthday cake on Sunday using the recipe described in my last blog, and also decorated it on Monday. In fact, the sponge was a slight disaster, because I added a packet of caramel chocolate drops I had been given at last year’s Cake and Bake show, and I forgot to […]