When I was brainstorming ideas for this Easter Countdown I decided I wanted to try and feature some fantastic Easter presents. My original plan was a Faberge Easter egg. How fantastic would that be! Well great plan, turns out I couldn’t find an appropriate Easter egg mould and I didn’t trust my own ability to decorate to the level of Faberge and then I hit upon it. Scrumdidlyumptious Bars.
Wowee isn’t this fun! A slice of Easter everyday is making me feel like I am on holiday again, and I’m not even going to mention the weather because I don’t care anymore (oops… well it doesn’t count if you’re saying your not going to say anything – you know what I mean).
Simnel cake at Easter has long been a tradition in my house. We all really like fruit cake and, for the most part, marzipan, so you can imagine that Simnel cake would go down a treat. However when I was young I would always look at it and think … nah I will have chocolate instead. So this year I have decided to make Simnel cake child friendly, chadult friendly (that’s an adult who enjoys childish things e.g. me) and just a bit more fun.
Spring is on its way and whether the sun deigns to show its face is of little consequence. As of today I am counting down to Easter, so I can only conclude one thing it is spring. No arguments.
As a result I am slowly filling my house with daffodils and the tastes of Easter.
Easter is one of the funnest baking times. I know you can cook other dishes at Easter but let’s face it why bother with that when there is chocolate. Amazing,wonderful, delicious chocolate, the best food source ever invented e.g. if you could live of chocolate I would. Did I tell you I love chocolate? Well I do. So in homage to the greatest food in the world I wanted to start my Easter countdown properly. There was no doubt in my mind where I was going… Easter Nests!
I have landed … in grey England. In my head I had expected to get back to Spring time, warmer weather, sunshine and the start of colour. Instead I felt like I was doing a dorothy in reverse, going from Technicolour to black and white.
So you might have guessed from the lack of posts over the last few weeks that I am not in my usual routine. Well if you did, you were right. I am in fact on Holiday! (hurray!) So for the next week or so it might be a bit quiet.
Now I know that everyone is after healthy recipes to keep that New Year, New You goodness going. But this week I could resist making a batch of ginger and oatmeal cookies. I don’t feel to bad about this because they are part of my whole spread the love through little things campaign that I am currently working on. And I only ate one. The rest were devoured by others. See I am practically a saint. So if you are trying to be healthy, why not make these as a treat for someone else, or just treat yourself because it is so darn cold and quite frankly they go down mighty well with a cup of tea.
What a great food week, Pancake day and Valentines all shoved into one gloriously spectacular food week. Last night after munching down on some chorizo, pepper and mozzarella pancakes I started to ponder the joy of food. Not only the fun of making it but also the joy of giving it as a gift.
Every year I always look forward to Chinese New Year. Firstly I love Chinese food and what better reason to feast on Chinese, secondly it’s a great opportunity to invite friends over and share a delicious meal.
So this year I thought I would give you a few ideas for your own Chinese new celebrations.
So I am lucky enough to be going on holiday at the end of this month, the sort of holiday that requires a bikini. Why am I telling you this? Not to make you insanely jealous or to rub in your face how great my life is – so don’t hate me for it, but it is part of the story. The story of …why the hell am I making cookies when I should be in hardcore health mode.
