Dessert with a sprinkle of beauty.
I don’t have time to be ill. I have a house to run. I have to clean the house, cook, research materials for model making, spend an age trying to get to grips with AutoCAD in 3D and somehow fit in some time to “do things I enjoy” as I’ve been told by my Doctor…
Afternoon. It’s been a tough few days for me. I had my hospital appointment and my consultant basically wrote me off as a lost cause despite the fact I’m only 21. He said that I’m not going to get better, only worse and he can only slow down the process. The thing that gets me…
I got my new cookbooks yesterday! Well nearly all of them, just waiting on my King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion as it took a couple of extra days to dispatch. My boyfriend came downstairs and I had books surrounding me and was diligently going through them all post-it noting all the recipes I want to…
I love strawberries and when they come into season I go a bit strawberry mad (as I’m sure you’re aware…Strawberry Scones, My Dad’s Birthday Cake, Strawberry Filled Cupcakes with Mascarpone Frosting, you get the hint) I make smoothies and just eat them out of the fridge. I’ve had a good think about this and whilst I’m a…
Painting the house is hard work with a dog. I try and lock her out of the room I’m painting, usually this is fairly easy, but at the moment I’m painting the hall, stairs and landing, so I can’t really lock her in. I keep shouting at her and trying to shut the lounge door,…
Our July 2012 Daring Baker’s Host was Dana McFarland and she challenged us to make homemade crackers! Dana showed us some techniques for making crackers and encouraged us to use our creativity to make each cracker our own by using ingredients we love.
We just got our results from Uni and I passed my first year! I did very well overall gaining firsts and upper seconds in everything, bar one unit, which annoys me as I put 100% effort in. However, the results aren’t broken down at all so I have no idea what I received individually in…
Evening, it’s been one of those days today, you know the kind of ones – where you should’ve stayed in bed all day and hidden away from everything and everyone. By 9am this morning, I had dropped yoghurt all over the floor, spilt milk, almost dropped my camera, almost chopped my finger off and almost…
