Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Baked a birthday cake
To take into the office: Vanilla buttercake with vanilla buttercream frosting, topped with Cadbury mini eggs. Very Eastery.
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To take into the office: Vanilla buttercake with vanilla buttercream frosting, topped with Cadbury mini eggs. Very Eastery.
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while baking a 7-apple crumble to salvage the near-extinction apples I bought a couple of weeks back. Peaceful times.
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with a much-needed 4-hour nap. Also had a massage to counter the tension headache, which has been quite horrific this week, baked oatmeal scones again, did a bit of work on djeli’s new hat (I’ve passed the turn-up and am on to the hat proper now!) and received the first part of my Amazon order – Wii Fit Plus (which obviously I can’t use until the sprained ankle is sorted out) and 3 Beatles albums – Magical Mystery Tour, Revolver and A Hard Day’s Night – woo! Also had a bash at one of my new Wii games – Lego Indiana Jones – which looks like a heap of fun. A lovely, relaxing day – can’t remember the last time I had one of those!
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Our houseguests’ last day so I felt blueberry muffins might be appropriate breakfast fare.
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to take to the hard-working and lovely colleagues at work.
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and did a lot of preparation for Saturday night’s Christmas feast – we put the turkey in its brine, peeled and cut up the potatoes, made the rice pudding base for the ris a l’amande and wrote up a big minute-by-minute plan for getting everything to the table on time
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and then used it in a batch of Nigella Lawson’s ‘Christmas Decorations’ biscuits – rather nice! I thought I should get a bit of a headstart on working out what to bake this Christmas, and it fitted with the messed-up nature of the day. I was going to take them into work, but I don’t think there are really enough left now…
Oh, and having made my own mixed spice (grinding the cloves, even), once everything was baked I looked up and spotted a jar of the stuff sitting way, way up in the top cupboards! Heigh ho.
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For work, in the hopes that they will help me avoid the chocolate this week. Also cleared a ton of stuff off my to-do list, which feels great but probably isn’t quite so interesting.
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Celebrating the apparent arrival of autumn.
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Tasty but VERY sweet. If I made it again, I’d probably serve with freshly whipped cream to cut the sugariness of the caramel on the top.
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