Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I had fun baking our Christmas cake over the weekend. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I think I’m going to make this a Cole Family tradition, we’ll have big roast dinner on Thanksgiving weekend and bake a cake ready for Christmas. It wasn’t quite a proper relaxing weekend in true holiday style but...
I fancied doing some baking today – Well, it was probably more the fact that I fancied eating cake that got me going, so I decided to bake some coconut muffins. I was initially going to make a start on a juicy, rich and very boozy Christmas cake. However, we didn’t have enough ingredients for...
Mmm, we’ve just polished off some homemade pudding pizzas topped with Marshmallow Fluff, Nutella, Chopped Hazelnuts and crushed Oreos!!! Healthy hey!!
A very unusual day for me – the only time I ventured outside was topless for a few seconds in order to do some semi-naked star-jumps on the deck in an almighty squall! With the weather in West Wales putting on a display in was most certainly an indoor day. We therefore spent the day...
With the Annual ABKA Honey Show on Sunday, we had to make an effort to prepare our entries. We didn’t really have enough honey to enter and hadn’t made anything from wax. No candles, no combs of honey and even the cookery class that we were looking forward to was different this year. The various...
Seeing as I’m out of action training-wise at the moment I decided to play in the kitchen yesterday and cook up a delicious hearty autumnal casserole with potato cobblers as a topping. It turned out to be really nice so I thought I’d share the recipe here as I made it up as I went...
Weird I know, but whilst in London last week we bought some Chocolate Pasta from Hotel Chocolate. It’s just pasta made with cocoa in it and the woman in the shop was a little surprised when we said we were going to make a dessert with it. She had only heard of savoury recipes being...
It’s Anna’s birthday today and considering the fact that I’ve been doing so much baking recently I thought it would be remiss of me not to bake a nice big birthday cake for her. It would be an understatement to say that she likes chocolate so the only option for a birthday cake for Anna...
OK, as promised in my recent post, here’s the chocolate cheesecake recipe that I made up at the weekend. Needless to say, the fact that I’m sharing it means that it worked and tasted ‘kinda nice’! But I’ll let you be the judge of that, you’ll just have to make one to try it. Ingredients 150g...
I’ve baked quite a few muffins lately so thought that seeing as we had picked blueberries on Friday that I would make Blueberry Muffins for breakfast on Saturday morning so that Anna could have a nice breakfast in bed. Rather than follow a recipe though I decided to make my own up as I wanted...
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