27th April 2011

After eating lots of big meals and chocolate when we were away last weekend, I decided that tonight I would be healthy and have a big salad with some smoked mackerel for my tea. Unfortunately I did have to have some salad cream with it but the good intentions were there!

20th April 2011

This evening we went out for a curry with some friends from the running club. The restaurant do a "banquet" deal including starters, main course, side dish and rice or naan bread consequently our plates were all well loaded with food!

3rd April 2011

It's very frustrating - I can make Yorkshire puddings to go with roast beef no problem, but for some reason I can never get my batter to rise properly when making toad-in-the-hole. More practice is clearly required but on the plus side it did taste nice!

30 March 2011

Shepherd's pie takes a bit of effort to make but made in advance it makes for a simple dinner as you can just stick in the oven and leave it to re-heat whilst you get on with other things or as was my case this evening have a nap!

28th January 2011

This is a sight I like to see: Mr W in the kitchen cooking dinner. Always nice not to have to cook after a day at work and a very nice meal it was too - salmon with a pesto topping with new potatoes and buttered leeks. Yum!