Week 25: It was a slow news week. The Boy Child had a Zoom meeting with his teacher and fellow students. Tilly had the right idea. We met up with my lovely SiL for a socially-distanced walk in the woods with the dogs. Week 26: I had an appointment at my GP's surgery. I made … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 25 and 26
Mary Berry came to the rescue recently, when I couldn't face making yet another chicken dish for supper. Her Lasagne Express is different to a traditional lasagne, but it is equally as delicious. Source Ingredients: butter, for greasing 6 large dried lasagne sheets 75g/2¾oz mature Cheddar cheese, grated For the pork and spinach sauce: 1 … Continue reading Lasagne Express
I saw this recipe in a recent issue of Good Housekeeping magazine and I've made it twice. My finished dish looks darker than the image in the magazine, but I think that's because of the cider I used. Pancetta and celery might have been scarce in the Lockdown larder, but The Brainy One was coerced … Continue reading Chicken Normandy
Ingredients:•85 g butter• 75 g soft brown sugar• 1 tsp vanilla essence• 75 g dried cranberries• 50 g plain flour• 75 g porridge oats• 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda• 1/2 tsp salt Method: 1. Preheat the oven to 180 C/gas mark 4. 2. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Oat and Cranberry Cookies
Week 17: Week 6 of Lockdown and one of emotional highs and lows. There was the cooking to new recipes. There was the birth of our latest great-nephew; he arrived in dramatic style, in the car, in the car park of the hospital. Mummy delivered her own baby while Daddy was parking the car. All … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 17 and 18
The Boy Child made this loaf as part of a home-schooling Food Tech lesson. The recipe is easy to follow and tastes delicious. Ingredients: 260 grams plain flour, 55 grams caster sugar, 4 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt (we went with a generous pinch), 320 ml milk (we used semi-skimmed), 125 grams … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Peanut Butter Loaf
For this week's Food Tech lesson: Peanut Butter Loaf*. No yeast. No eggs. It smells heavenly and tastes absolutely fantastic. *Recipe to follow tomorrow.
There's still 1 kg of self-raising flour in the pantry cupboard ... I have my fingers crossed that on the next visit to the supermarket, I will be able to restock. The flour shelves were completely bare on my last visit. Ingredients: 1/2 cup of butter, room temperature 1 cup of white sugar juice and … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Lemon and Blueberry Loaf
Was April awful? Let's see what the numbers made of it: 18 online sessions of Pilates. 30 more days of Lockdown, bringing the UK's total number of days in Lockdown to 42. There were 15 mornings of homeschooling. We made 7 rainbows for our windows. I sent 9 pieces of Happy Mail. My highest daily … Continue reading Month in Numbers | April 2020
Week 15: Week 4 of lockdown. Nature continued doing her Spring thing. I made time for scrapbooking. We stood in the front door on Thursday and joined our neighbours in applauding all those working on the front line. Week 16: The week began with a glorious sunrise (which made me surprisingly emotional). There was TV … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 15 and 16
