No meal plan this week, as such, hubby is working silly hours this week so there will be child friendly stuff only. There will be a bolognese in there, and probably a roast dinner. Mostly it will be freezer diving though!
Because of this, I have still based my Monday post around food..........
I am slightly incapacitated at the moment, but I still want to move around a little. The easiest solution to this is a little baking. I had my hubby and boys to call on if I needed a little help, which I did a few times.
Because of this, I have still based my Monday post around food..........
I am slightly incapacitated at the moment, but I still want to move around a little. The easiest solution to this is a little baking. I had my hubby and boys to call on if I needed a little help, which I did a few times.
I had spent Saturday afternoon looking on the Internet, at various blogs, recipes and pinterest and on my favourite site allrecipes. I love this site as you can save your recipes, rate them, and most of the recipes are tried and tested.

The second recipe I found, but for some reason can't find again, was a lemon drizzle cake. I changed up the recipe slightly anyway, as I didn't have any lemons to hand! The recipe was:
110g self raising flour
110g caster sugar
110g of butter
2 medium eggs
lemon flavouring
orange flavouring
icing sugar
water
Simply mix the flour, sugar and softened butter together, then add the eggs one at a time, beating constantly. I went old school and used a wooden spoon, but a mixer would do the job. Keep mixing until the ingredients are blended to a smooth mix, then add required amount of lemon flavouring. I cannot be specific as different flavourings have different strengths, I am a big fan of uncle roys (the link is to the local shop I buy it from too), which requires just a few drops. Put the mix into a loaf tin, lined if you wish, I always do as its easier to remove. I cooked on my middle shelf, gas mark 5 for approx 45 mins, but with a decent cooker I would check after 30. Then cool on a wire rack.
I used about 2 tablespoons of icing sugar, 1 tsp of orange flavouring and a little water to create the 'drizzle' when cooled
The result was received very well!!
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There were more, but they were eaten before I could get a picture!! |
My middle boy had been to cooking class the same day and made beautiful iced buns......
How lucky were we!! Now while I am mobile I am going to throw some ingredients in the bread maker for Breakfast. Yummy!!
Oh yum Jo, Lemon drizzle is my absolute favourite,there is nothing nicer with a big mug of tea
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