Well, I lasted nine months. Which is eight and a half months longer than most of my New Years resolutions ( Read more... )

Recipe #32 was Apple Pizza ( Read more... )

Recipe #30 is cinnamon tea cake, and #31 is apple muffins.

I made both this morning, and felt very domestic.

The apple muffins are different - the recipe said I should chop the apple into bits (rather than grating), so they're all chunky. Quite nice, too...

The conversation's happening over at Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment there using OpenID ( Read more... )

I made lemon slice!

It's my sister's recipe, which I fell in love with a few weeks ago. Quite easy to make, too - lots of crushed biscuit and butter, and some condensed milk.

Anyone who feels like stopping by for a piece is most welcome...

The conversation's happening over at Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment there using OpenID. (
( Read more... )

Last night I made recipe #28: salade compose.

It's a kind of salad, where you don't toss it to mix everything - instead, you keep it in very careful layers: first lettuce, then tomato, bacon and garlic-dipped toasted bread, eggs, and dressing. (Yes, this is a salad with bacon and eggs on toast. Please don't judge me ( Read more... )

Recipe #27 is chocolate mousse!

Really really yummy - or at least the un-refrigerated mixture is. I can't try the actual proper mousse until tomorrow evening. Not that hard, either. If it ends up working, I'll have to make it again.

I can't quite believe I've never made any of these desserts before...

The conversation's happening over at ( Read more... )

I made a chocolate cake - extremely yummy.

And this time I managed not to set my oven on fire. :D

The conversation's happening over at Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment there using OpenID. (
( Read more... )

I made pumpkin-and-potato soup in my slow cooker!

A bit of variation from the recipe: it wanted me to use chicken stock, but I had this leftover duck carcass, so I boiled up duck-and-cherry stock, and ended up with soup that had a hint of cherry...

Quite nice. Unusual, but nice.

The conversation's happening over at Dreamwidth. Feel free to ( Read more... )

Recipe #24 is roast duck, with cherry sauce.

The recipe wanted duck marylands, but I couldn't buy them - just a whole frozen duck, ready to roast. I decided that the important part of the thing was the cherry sauce, and I could change to a whole duck if I wanted to...

Surprisingly, cherry goes with duck really well. It's LOVELY.

The ( Read more... )

Recipe #23 is pastitsio!

My recipe book says that "pastitsio is to the Greek kitchen as lasagne is to an Italian cucina". Which certainly looks reasonable so far - it's got pasta, meat sauce, and cheese sauce. It's just... different.

Instead of flat lasagne sheets, the pasta is... macaroniInstead of standard meat-onion-tomatoey stuff, the meat ( Read more... )