Mum has gone bananas!
I don't lose my temper often - I think it takes mastery level parenting skills to walk through my kitchen after the teen angels have been "brunching" and not have a blue funk and disinherit the little blighters. They are so delicious though , that I load up the dishwasher, put on the washing, feed the cats and whip up a fish pie and let it go, as all too soon I will have to let them go.
When my little fledglings fly off , I want them to look back and remember that their childhoods were jam packed with teatime conflabs round the kitchen table, laughs in abundance and kindness.
I'd rather give them cheese on toast and my time than a flea in their ears constantly nagging them to be tidy. I want them to know they are enough.
My Grandmothers were just that- grand mothers. Nanna and Gaggy as they were called were culinary opposites. Lucy Mary made her own brown bread daily and Little Muriel gave us tinned carrots and Battenburg cake! They fed us with unconditional love and we lapped it up and grew in confidence as a result of hugs and kisses always being on the menu.
In turn my parents had contrasting cookery skills , both loved food and childhood memories of fish and chip suppers and Pol Roger Champagne with them are so evocative of the happy days when we feasted on each other’s company.
So this weekend when we celebrate mothers. I celebrate “mother love” which can be provided by mothers, fathers,Grandparents, Aunties, best friends. You don't have to give birth to someone to mother them, just love them and feed them and it will turn out alright.
The only time I went bananas was when they decorated the Christmas tree without me and I subtly redid it while they were sleeping! None of us are getting out of this World alive and a very wise person said to me this week that we are “all just helping each other home”
I want my children to know they will always have a home with me, whatever I have in the fridge is theirs and the washing up can always wait as I serve them love on a plate for breakfast, dinner and tea.
Clarey goes bananas
1 roll of puff pastry
4 bananas sliced
2tbs caster sugar
2tsp cinnamon
My nanna could make 1 banana feed a family in a sandwich!
Score a frame on the outside of the pastry and in the centre pile on bananas, sugar and cinnamon and bake for 20 mins until golden and goey. So quick to make and prevents you from going bananas when they ask "what's for pudding?" and you're tired. Well done you yummy mummies who I love, you know who you are xxx
