Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Ta dah beef!
Friday I'm in love.
Its our wedding anniversary this weekend , but it is 18 years to the day that we tied the knot, I just love Fridays. We were going out for seven years previous to that so I've spent a quarter of a Century feeding Matt. I don't think he would have married me unless I could cook!
I am a hiking,pingponging,cycling widow but he always rocks up tired and sweaty and hungry at some point in the evening! If there isn't a pan of something lovely waiting for him he is rather prone to becoming Hulk like or "hangry", so I am an expert at chucking a meal together in moments. Ta dah!
This roast beef recipe really works , you only get a Friday feeling when youve earned it. The same goes for marriage , you only get the surge of Love even after 18 years, when someone walks in the room and you still love them and want to feed them when you have weathered good and bad times together and still really care how their day went.
1 joint of beef
English mustard
manuka honey
Season the beef with salt and pepper and coat the fat in honey and mustard. Wrap up tight in foil and cook for 1hr 30mins at 180 . The ta dah moment is when you unwrap the beef and it has made its own wonderful gravy. Serve with Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, cabbage and someone you love.
Its our wedding anniversary this weekend , but it is 18 years to the day that we tied the knot, I just love Fridays. We were going out for seven years previous to that so I've spent a quarter of a Century feeding Matt. I don't think he would have married me unless I could cook!
I am a hiking,pingponging,cycling widow but he always rocks up tired and sweaty and hungry at some point in the evening! If there isn't a pan of something lovely waiting for him he is rather prone to becoming Hulk like or "hangry", so I am an expert at chucking a meal together in moments. Ta dah!
This roast beef recipe really works , you only get a Friday feeling when youve earned it. The same goes for marriage , you only get the surge of Love even after 18 years, when someone walks in the room and you still love them and want to feed them when you have weathered good and bad times together and still really care how their day went.
1 joint of beef
English mustard
manuka honey
Season the beef with salt and pepper and coat the fat in honey and mustard. Wrap up tight in foil and cook for 1hr 30mins at 180 . The ta dah moment is when you unwrap the beef and it has made its own wonderful gravy. Serve with Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, cabbage and someone you love.
What`s for dinner Clarey?: Lemon curd drizzle cakeLast Sunday after b...
What`s for dinner Clarey?: Lemon curd drizzle cake
Last Sunday after b...: Lemon curd drizzle cake Last Sunday after breakfast I was about to take my coffee and sit in the garden to read the papers, but my g...
Last Sunday after b...: Lemon curd drizzle cake Last Sunday after breakfast I was about to take my coffee and sit in the garden to read the papers, but my g...
Lemon curd drizzle cake
Last Sunday after breakfast I was about to take my coffee and sit in the garden to read the papers, but my girls had other ideas. They wanted me to make not one but two lemon cakes! I was a little reluctant ,as I`m currently on a Spartan mermaid`s diet, eating fish and swimming lots, but when it comes to my children, I`m just a girl who can`t say no!
They didn`t want to stay and help and I heard guitar strumming and piano playing drifting down from above and Olympic ping pong commentating from next door, so I put on my pinny and got baking.
I`m not one for recipes, probably because we never have all the ingredients in, so I had a rummage in the cupboards and came up with this recipe and made two scrummy cakes. One they all devoured at lunchtime(even Matty had two slices and he hates cake!) The other was in tray bake fashion and Jemima carefully cut it into 12 pieces and wrapped it in foil for the other lucky recipients. I still was none the wiser who I had made the cake for but just trusted her wisdom.
Cake bowl licked and washed up, I got round to that coffee and Sunday paper lossacking time and forgot about Lemon drizzle #2. Later we went to church and I saw my lovely Lily and Jemima surrepticiously place the cake in the basket of food donations for the Cenacolo community , a group of young men with addictions who come to recover here in Dodding Green . Usually we give them storecupboard items such as spaghetti or baked beans, all perfectly good but nothing special. It made my day to think I have raised children with an Elves and the shoemaker mentality. It is certainly better to give than receive, because nothing could taste sweeter than the thought of that surprise cake being opened by strangers, who realised that they were cared for. Nothing gives you the sense that you are loved and therefore there is Hope like someone baking a cake especially for you.
Children are so generous and selfless , I sat and counted 12 young Italian boys in the front pew and was grateful we had enough cake for them and gave thanks for my three who sometimes are capable of great kindness.
Lemon curd drizzle cake
4tbs of softened butter
2tbs of lemon curd
4tbs sugar
3 eggs
juice and grated rind of half a lemon
8tbs SR flour
milk
icing sugar
lemon/lime juice/rind
water
I creamed the butter sugar and lemon curd until pale and fluffy and added the eggs. Then slowly incorporated the flour, lemon juice and rind and enough milk to make a soft dropping consistency. I baked it in a medium oven (180) for 30 mins until springy and firm to touch.
Meanwhile I made a syrup out of icing sugar , lemon juice, rind and water and boiled it until syrupy. Then I made lots of holes in the cake and poured it over to sink in. When totally cooled I made more icing with icing sugar , lemon juice and less water and drizzled over the top.
We are already plotting our next bake-away (a cake we bake and give away) who knows it could be you? xx
Last Sunday after breakfast I was about to take my coffee and sit in the garden to read the papers, but my girls had other ideas. They wanted me to make not one but two lemon cakes! I was a little reluctant ,as I`m currently on a Spartan mermaid`s diet, eating fish and swimming lots, but when it comes to my children, I`m just a girl who can`t say no!
They didn`t want to stay and help and I heard guitar strumming and piano playing drifting down from above and Olympic ping pong commentating from next door, so I put on my pinny and got baking.
I`m not one for recipes, probably because we never have all the ingredients in, so I had a rummage in the cupboards and came up with this recipe and made two scrummy cakes. One they all devoured at lunchtime(even Matty had two slices and he hates cake!) The other was in tray bake fashion and Jemima carefully cut it into 12 pieces and wrapped it in foil for the other lucky recipients. I still was none the wiser who I had made the cake for but just trusted her wisdom.
Cake bowl licked and washed up, I got round to that coffee and Sunday paper lossacking time and forgot about Lemon drizzle #2. Later we went to church and I saw my lovely Lily and Jemima surrepticiously place the cake in the basket of food donations for the Cenacolo community , a group of young men with addictions who come to recover here in Dodding Green . Usually we give them storecupboard items such as spaghetti or baked beans, all perfectly good but nothing special. It made my day to think I have raised children with an Elves and the shoemaker mentality. It is certainly better to give than receive, because nothing could taste sweeter than the thought of that surprise cake being opened by strangers, who realised that they were cared for. Nothing gives you the sense that you are loved and therefore there is Hope like someone baking a cake especially for you.
Children are so generous and selfless , I sat and counted 12 young Italian boys in the front pew and was grateful we had enough cake for them and gave thanks for my three who sometimes are capable of great kindness.
Lemon curd drizzle cake
4tbs of softened butter
2tbs of lemon curd
4tbs sugar
3 eggs
juice and grated rind of half a lemon
8tbs SR flour
milk
icing sugar
lemon/lime juice/rind
water
I creamed the butter sugar and lemon curd until pale and fluffy and added the eggs. Then slowly incorporated the flour, lemon juice and rind and enough milk to make a soft dropping consistency. I baked it in a medium oven (180) for 30 mins until springy and firm to touch.
Meanwhile I made a syrup out of icing sugar , lemon juice, rind and water and boiled it until syrupy. Then I made lots of holes in the cake and poured it over to sink in. When totally cooled I made more icing with icing sugar , lemon juice and less water and drizzled over the top.
We are already plotting our next bake-away (a cake we bake and give away) who knows it could be you? xx
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