I prepared this post in full, saved it, and Blogger lost it and it has been a few days before I have been able to sit and actually re-write it.
Real life got in the way again which it seems to be doing a little too much at the moment! However the unit is nearly empty. I cannot say the same for the house but that is also a work in progress as it were. Hopefully I will not disappear down the rabbit warren again but I still have a lot of sorting out to do.
Real life got in the way again which it seems to be doing a little too much at the moment! However the unit is nearly empty. I cannot say the same for the house but that is also a work in progress as it were. Hopefully I will not disappear down the rabbit warren again but I still have a lot of sorting out to do.
My 60th birthday was on Friday 3 May. It was a lovely quiet and peaceful day and I met up with friends. However things went slightly awry.
I had planned on cooking mussels in cider with garlic served simply with sourdough bread and butter and then had decided would have a cake or a gateau style cake to finish off. Nothing too much - I did not want loads to eat just wanted something tasty and nice. So off I goes to Waitrose - problem number one no netted mussels. OH not keen on the pre-prepared version so back to the drawing board. I still had not made up my mind what I wanted for tea.
I had really wanted to have a vintage style tea party with a few of my friends. There is a little vintage tea room in Stamford that we found the other day but there is another one local to us. I had envisaged treating my friends. However that fell by the way side also.
What triggered this off was that I had seen a cake in M & S which I absolutely fell in love with but which I could not qualify paying £15 for.
If you remember last Christmas on Facebook there was a surge of different icing nozzles being marketed which created different effects. I bought some of these - they are currently in a safe place (I don't know where) hiding from me so I could not use those. These nozzles give the exact effects of the cake in M & S and as I know it is only down to nozzles and different coloured icing I was blowed if I was going to pay £15. Sorry it is the tight wad in me protesting.
As I have said though it is very much a beautiful cake. A simple Victoria Sandwich with beautiful decoration. If I could have found my nozzles I would have made it.
I had planned on cooking mussels in cider with garlic served simply with sourdough bread and butter and then had decided would have a cake or a gateau style cake to finish off. Nothing too much - I did not want loads to eat just wanted something tasty and nice. So off I goes to Waitrose - problem number one no netted mussels. OH not keen on the pre-prepared version so back to the drawing board. I still had not made up my mind what I wanted for tea.
I had really wanted to have a vintage style tea party with a few of my friends. There is a little vintage tea room in Stamford that we found the other day but there is another one local to us. I had envisaged treating my friends. However that fell by the way side also.
What triggered this off was that I had seen a cake in M & S which I absolutely fell in love with but which I could not qualify paying £15 for.
If you remember last Christmas on Facebook there was a surge of different icing nozzles being marketed which created different effects. I bought some of these - they are currently in a safe place (I don't know where) hiding from me so I could not use those. These nozzles give the exact effects of the cake in M & S and as I know it is only down to nozzles and different coloured icing I was blowed if I was going to pay £15. Sorry it is the tight wad in me protesting.
As I have said though it is very much a beautiful cake. A simple Victoria Sandwich with beautiful decoration. If I could have found my nozzles I would have made it.
In the end, I settled for a £5 passion fruit and cream sponge also courtesy from M & S and it was gorgeous. Not as pretty but very tasty.
However I did have a lovely peaceful day; I met a good friend, had met other friends earlier in the week, received lots of good wishes and received some lovely pressies.
In the end what did I have to eat. Kentucky fried chicken courtesy of OH. So at least I ate!
More to follow in a separate post as this has got a little longer than intended.
Catch you soon.
Pattypan
x
