Showing posts with label day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label day. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentines Day

 
 Love is in the air, everywhere I look around....I just got sent this image from someone who wished to remain anonymous:
Aww.   Well, thank you anonymous stranger, I'll look after it.  

 
Flourless orange cake; recipe to follow this week-twas deelish.


 
Lasagna; truly tasty.

 
Spag Bog.   For Lucy.

 
Salmon fishcakes, for Kelly and friends

 
Fat scones

 
Aromatic Thai Chicken with Spicy Crackling-Recipe to follow. Mmmmmm!


 
Our newest dolly member; she doesn't have a name yet as she is for Heather.   Isn't she adorable?
Lots of recipes this week including the giveaway I've been going on about and a traveller to your home!   Have a lovely Sunday and a wonderful Valentines Day.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

My very own SITS day!

Wednesday, 20th January

The wonderful girls at SITS have made me today's  featured blogger.  Woohoo! Better tidy up....where's that duster...?  Thank you sitstas!   I'm one happy lass.


SITS is a wonderful online community; it's all about sharing the bloggy love and giving support to each other in the form of reading and commenting on each other's blogs.   I've met some amazing and downright funny, crazy, all over inspirational people through SITS and made some great bloggy friends; if you haven't already, please go check it out...you won't be sorry!

I'm a mum of three lovely children and live in a suburb of Glasgow in Scotland.   Och aye!   I started this blog after waxing lyrical in the pub one day this is what we do in Scotland: think Women's Institute but with cocktails; my friends remember it differently but  we agree we were all talking about my plan to see if I could live off £50 per week having at times spent three times that amount....hey, everyone needs a hobby...and gin...I was managing quite well, much to their very supportive but incredulous surprise.   They asked for proof, they wanted recipes...I gladly obliged.   And a blog was born.   Now as every blogger knows, blog topics tend to wander, growing arms and legs in the process so don't be surprised if you come across the odd scary story or pointless tune.  You have been warned.

Thank you for taking the time to come visit me, I really do appreciate it and can't wait to return the favour.   Now...anyone for afternoon tea?   Or hearthbread?



Monday, November 30, 2009

Happy St. Andrews Day, My Lovely Friends!!


Happy St. Andrews Day!

Ah, to take a breath without falling about in a wretched cacophony of coughing; to walk upstairs without collapsing at the top, legs stuck out over the last stair for the kids to find as they turn the corner towards me, they're shrieks of "MUMMY'S DEAD!!!" no longer ringing in my ear as I try to get up and tell them that I'm only really half dead....they'll still get their tea.

The big reveal is tomorrow. I shall put one toe, then another over my doorstep and venture into the big, bad, cold world to attend my yoga class. I think I understand, albeit slightly, what agoraphobics feel like; you get into a settled, uneasy routine at home and staying in makes you want to stay in and self fulfilling prophecies are born. In saying that, I can't wait to get out...I feel I'm escaping. The girls at yoga don't realise what a big treat tomorrow will be for me; there will be me, in a downdog, smiling like a crazy girl, whilst they look on, puzzled and grimacing, the same expression I usually wear.

Last Friday, approx. 10 days ago, just before I got ill, we had friends over for dinner. I made chicken with slightly spiced rice and a Mughlai cream sauce with toasted almonds. I served it with paratha. Beforehand, I'd put out some spicy onions and the lovely mango chutney dip I made at my party. These were served with pappadums and followed by onion bhajis.


For dessert, I made Nigella's Lemon Trifle Cake Thingy. My lemon cake was made in small tins and soaked with twice the amount of syrup as normal. A slice was plated and topped with raspberries, then topped with cream whipped with, amongst other things, Amaretto and lemon juice. Delightful.


Dessert without the cream as I was too greedy, once it was applied....to face!


The recipes will follow tomorrow as I have badges to sew onto a Cubs jumper and my sewing is like my singing voice.......

One of the drawings I was asked to do for Christmas gifts....just so you know I've not been entirely idle....