Yesterday I took the day off from riding my white charger into cyber space to concentrate on the serious business of being mummy to a birthday girl and engaging in some much over-due housework – more like slum clearance actually!!
For many years the mantra that I have envoked over housework has been ‘a tidy house [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Chocolate Birthday Cake for all…
Posted in Recipes, tagged birthday, cake, choclate, chocolate icing, easy, food, recipe on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Strictly come discounts – Boden, M&S, La Redoute & Hush…..
Posted in General ramblings, tagged boden, discounts, hush, la redoute, m&s, strictly come dancing on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the biggest controvesy around our dinner table tonight was not a world tumbling into recession or the presumed failings of a North London social services department, but outcry that John Seargent is still in strictly come dancing and wasn’t even in the dance off !!!
Onto more serious subjects though, in a time when things [...]
Make friends – bake Eccles cakes!
Posted in Recipes, tagged baking, british, cakes, currants, eccles cakes, family, food, home baking, quick and easy, Recipes on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baking is truly one of the best ways I know of making friends and influencing people – it is not only men who are seduced by their stomachs, but in fact almost everyone you and I know loves a home made cake and it doesn’t have to be fancy or time consuming.
Eccles cakes are my [...]
Roasted vegetable and tomato soup
Posted in Recipes, tagged family, food, pumpkin, rain, recipe, roasted vegetable, soup, tinned tomatoes, vegetable on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Rain, rain, go to Spain and never show your face again!”
Well, that is how I feel this morning as I have fairly well swum to school with my offspring (number one son went solo, with a flea in his ear and no coat on account of having lost his, again!). We did however book last [...]
Chocolate Pumpkin Cake
Posted in Recipes, tagged baking, cake, chocolate, chocolate icing, courgette cake, family, food, pumpkin, riverford organics, vegetables on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This one is for you Rosie – grower of fantastically large pumpkins – as I know you are looking for inspiration as to what to do with the other 2 that you have!!
It is a variation on the Chocolate Courgette Cake that Riverford Organics have on their recipe pages, and is all the better in [...]
Parties and Pumpkins
Posted in General ramblings, Recipes, Shop news!, tagged cheese and chutney pumpkin loaf, children, creative parties, family, food, Heather Bailey's Trash Ties, jewellery making parties, Jewellery Parties, pumpkin bread, pumpkin recipes, Recipes, Sarah Hough Paper, teens, Trash Ties on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a run-away half term break it has been! – 2 jewellery parties, an autumn charity fair, visiting family and a low key but great fun pumpkin party as a cosy alternative to all the nastiness on the streets and doors at this time of year. Lots of delicious pumpkinny food; roasted with sausages and [...]
