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Valentine’s Day culinary disaster
Planned menu: starter, fish course, main course, dessert.
Actual menu: starter, main course, fish course, disaster.
The Christmas cake is tasted
As promised, we have tasted the Christmas cake this evening, despite being rather full after a Chinese takeaway. The result: it tastes like Christmas cake, but without one ingredient, due to complete incompetency on my part. The absence, which I forgot about when I wrote the previous entry, was noticed immediately when I cut open [...]
Christmas cake
I made the Christmas cake about a week before Christmas. I gather you’re supposed to make it much sooner than this because it has to mature or some such. I never got round to icing it though, so it has sat, untouched, on the kitchen table, for want of anywhere better to put it. Last [...]
Christmas preparations
In the last few years, I’ve used Jamie’s Xmas recipes, but this year, because the BBC showed her new Xmas programme recently, I’ve gone all Delia mad. I’m not as organised as her, of course. I only made the cake and pudding on Sunday, along with a tonne of mincemeat (despite having half a jar [...]
A to-do list
This is for today, tomorrow and Thursday. On Friday, I will be going to Surrey. Hang the washing up to dry. Put the flour in its plastic tub. Skim read B&B’s paper. Add summary of above paper to paper for proceedings. Reply to proceedings email. Revise abstract. Send abstract. Send draft paper. What have I [...]
Domestic devillery
The sink is blocked.
In a spot of hot water. Or not.
The hot tap surely didn’t break just because I cleaned it, did it?!