Sunday, 13 July 2008
TWO LITTLE TEETH
Hooray for Amelia! Yesterday she got her 1st tooth - it's on the bottom, the front left hand side one. Then this morning we found its partner, so now she has her 2 front teeth on the bottom -aahhh! She's still the smiliest baby in the land, she just has a rosy red cheek & is even more dribbley! She's so lovely - well done Amelia :)
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
FORMULA FOOD - ROUND 9
BRITAIN = CONCESSION STANDS!
We could have stayed at home & had roast beef, but no, we went to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix & ate like pigs from Great British concession stands instead!
Conclusion: I just want some vegetables!
Would I do it again? Yes, just not until next year though!
Concession stands (or a heart attack in a polystyrene box!):
3 sausage baguettes, 1 bacon baguette, 3 1/4lb cheese burgers, 1 1/2lb cheese burger, 3 portions of chips, 1 beef sandwich, 1 steak sandwich, 1 portion of potato wedges & curry sauce, 2 breakfast baguettes, 2 bags of 6 doughnuts, 2 chicken tikka massala with rice & naan bread & 1 meal in the hotel restaurant.
1. Divide between 3 days & 2 fat bastards.
2.Feel crap & bloated for another week.
We could have stayed at home & had roast beef, but no, we went to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix & ate like pigs from Great British concession stands instead!
Conclusion: I just want some vegetables!
Would I do it again? Yes, just not until next year though!
Concession stands (or a heart attack in a polystyrene box!):
3 sausage baguettes, 1 bacon baguette, 3 1/4lb cheese burgers, 1 1/2lb cheese burger, 3 portions of chips, 1 beef sandwich, 1 steak sandwich, 1 portion of potato wedges & curry sauce, 2 breakfast baguettes, 2 bags of 6 doughnuts, 2 chicken tikka massala with rice & naan bread & 1 meal in the hotel restaurant.
1. Divide between 3 days & 2 fat bastards.
2.Feel crap & bloated for another week.
Monday, 7 July 2008
DID YOU SEE US?...WE WERE ON TELLY!
On Sunday evening, Christian & I arrived home from our fantastic 3 days away at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. We had a brilliant time, although I really missed my babies!
On Friday morning at 7am, we dropped the girls off with Christian's mum & headed straight for Silverstone - having experienced long traffic delays last year, we knew that being very early was the key. Christian had bought us the very best seats available for the Sunday race - so we could sit where ever we wanted to on the Friday & Saturday for practicing & qualifying. So we did our usual walk round the whole circuit, sitting in all the grandstands, making sure our seats were the best - & they were!! We watched the F1 practices & some GP2 & Porsche stuff too, bought a load of presents(for us & the girls!) & headed off to find the hotel & more importantly the hotel bar.
Saturday was a bit of a lie in - 6am to be exact! Oh well, rather be waiting at the track than stuck in traffic! Christian listened to me this time & we got to park in the car park in front of the entrance, rather than in the back of some field - Mummy knows best!! & we had a lovely day (if not a bit wet & cold) watching the qualifying. The only slight blip was when I found a massive purple DVT vein on my leg & I was going to die before the day was out &..... it was a bruise from climbing over the seats on Friday!
Sunday was the best ever, I'm sure Christian will write about it in much more detail here. Our seats were fantastic - the pit straight grandstand - the covered bit of course (thankfully as it started to rain at about 8am & stopped 5 mins before the race finished!). We got to watch all the race build up & spotted all the celebs walking around the grid too. The race was amazing - wet races are my favourite as they are so action packed & this one didn't fail to please! Sitting opposite the pits meant that I could gather what was going on without a commentary by reading the drivers pit boards - they are really very useful! As Lewis started his last lap everyone was going mad - cheering & blowing air horns - so you can only imagine how loud it got when he actually won, very exciting. We watched all the podium presentations, then came home.
After we had put the children to bed, we watched the race again! When the camera panned over our grandstand, we paused it & saw ourselves on telly! Did you see us? We were those 2 faces behind the red & yellow blobs of the people sat in front of us!
What a brilliant weekend & such a shame there will only be 1 more at Silverstone - we will be there of course - same seats I hope Christian!
On Friday morning at 7am, we dropped the girls off with Christian's mum & headed straight for Silverstone - having experienced long traffic delays last year, we knew that being very early was the key. Christian had bought us the very best seats available for the Sunday race - so we could sit where ever we wanted to on the Friday & Saturday for practicing & qualifying. So we did our usual walk round the whole circuit, sitting in all the grandstands, making sure our seats were the best - & they were!! We watched the F1 practices & some GP2 & Porsche stuff too, bought a load of presents(for us & the girls!) & headed off to find the hotel & more importantly the hotel bar.
Saturday was a bit of a lie in - 6am to be exact! Oh well, rather be waiting at the track than stuck in traffic! Christian listened to me this time & we got to park in the car park in front of the entrance, rather than in the back of some field - Mummy knows best!! & we had a lovely day (if not a bit wet & cold) watching the qualifying. The only slight blip was when I found a massive purple DVT vein on my leg & I was going to die before the day was out &..... it was a bruise from climbing over the seats on Friday!
Sunday was the best ever, I'm sure Christian will write about it in much more detail here. Our seats were fantastic - the pit straight grandstand - the covered bit of course (thankfully as it started to rain at about 8am & stopped 5 mins before the race finished!). We got to watch all the race build up & spotted all the celebs walking around the grid too. The race was amazing - wet races are my favourite as they are so action packed & this one didn't fail to please! Sitting opposite the pits meant that I could gather what was going on without a commentary by reading the drivers pit boards - they are really very useful! As Lewis started his last lap everyone was going mad - cheering & blowing air horns - so you can only imagine how loud it got when he actually won, very exciting. We watched all the podium presentations, then came home.
After we had put the children to bed, we watched the race again! When the camera panned over our grandstand, we paused it & saw ourselves on telly! Did you see us? We were those 2 faces behind the red & yellow blobs of the people sat in front of us!
What a brilliant weekend & such a shame there will only be 1 more at Silverstone - we will be there of course - same seats I hope Christian!
Thursday, 3 July 2008
CHOCOLATE FUDGE DELIGHT
As mentioned in a previous post, I have been baking this week. Here is the chocolate fudge cock I made for a friend's hen night. Christian was disappointed that it wasn't pink, but the hen is a chocoholic & anyway brown willies are much bigger than pink (years of experience talking now!), so you can cut more slices!
While I was icing this cake, it took me back 6 years to my hen night - when that white stretch limo picked me up, with a sea of half cut friends faces inside & took me to the Moathouse for a Bee Gees tribute band night! Ahh what a naff, drunken time was had - fantastic, it has to be done!
While I was icing this cake, it took me back 6 years to my hen night - when that white stretch limo picked me up, with a sea of half cut friends faces inside & took me to the Moathouse for a Bee Gees tribute band night! Ahh what a naff, drunken time was had - fantastic, it has to be done!
Sunday, 29 June 2008
FANTASY DINNER PARTY
You know that fantasy dinner party thing - where you choose living or dead, who you'd have for dinner. And you're supposed to pick people to make others think "Oh how clever & witty, I'd had never thought of that!" Like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Elvis, Kylie & Nigella... Well I'd have, me & Christian (obviously), Mum, Dad, Alison & her really nice husband (one she deserved, not the twat she ended up with!). And after everyone had gone to bed (for we would live in a massive house - big enough to accommodate everyone) - Dad & I would stay up, open another bottle of wine & talk as we washed up.... That would be the best day of my life.
Monday, 23 June 2008
FORMULA FOOD - ROUND 8
FRANCE = CASSOULET
There isn't a national dish as such from France, but I'm sure if you asked anyone to name a french dish then half a dozen would immediately spring to mind. Although Magny Cours is in central France, I opted for cassoulet from south west France because that's the area we were going to move to next year (this may still happen in a few years).
I have again moved slightly away from the traditional style in favour of the weight watching version. I omitted the duck, duck confit & duck fat, but as the best cassoulet recipe is the one your family invented & as long as it contains sausages & beans, we're ok!
Conclusion: Bloody lovely.
Would I make it again? Yes.
Cassoulet:
1lb herb & garlic pork sausage, 1 tin chopped tomatoes (or 1lb of fresh), 2tbsp tomato puree, 300ml pork stock, 1tbsp Lea & Perrins, 8oz mushrooms - sliced, 8oz baby onions -halved, 1 red pepper -diced, 2 cloves garlic - crushed, 1tbsp sweet chilli sauce, 410g can of butter beans - drained, salt & pepper & chopped parsley.
1. Cook sausages however you cook them (I do mine in the oven).
2. Place tomatoes, puree, stock & Lea & Perrins in a flameproof casserole & bring to boil. Add in garlic, onions, mushrooms, pepper & chilli sauce & simmer for 10 mins.
3. Add sausages, butter beans & salt & pepper to taste & simmer for a further 20 mins. Serve sprinkled with chopped parsley.
There isn't a national dish as such from France, but I'm sure if you asked anyone to name a french dish then half a dozen would immediately spring to mind. Although Magny Cours is in central France, I opted for cassoulet from south west France because that's the area we were going to move to next year (this may still happen in a few years).
I have again moved slightly away from the traditional style in favour of the weight watching version. I omitted the duck, duck confit & duck fat, but as the best cassoulet recipe is the one your family invented & as long as it contains sausages & beans, we're ok!
Conclusion: Bloody lovely.
Would I make it again? Yes.
Cassoulet:
1lb herb & garlic pork sausage, 1 tin chopped tomatoes (or 1lb of fresh), 2tbsp tomato puree, 300ml pork stock, 1tbsp Lea & Perrins, 8oz mushrooms - sliced, 8oz baby onions -halved, 1 red pepper -diced, 2 cloves garlic - crushed, 1tbsp sweet chilli sauce, 410g can of butter beans - drained, salt & pepper & chopped parsley.
1. Cook sausages however you cook them (I do mine in the oven).
2. Place tomatoes, puree, stock & Lea & Perrins in a flameproof casserole & bring to boil. Add in garlic, onions, mushrooms, pepper & chilli sauce & simmer for 10 mins.
3. Add sausages, butter beans & salt & pepper to taste & simmer for a further 20 mins. Serve sprinkled with chopped parsley.
SO EMBARRASSING!
Prude is not a word you would use to describe me. I have just bought condoms for the second time in my life & I curled up with embarrassment! I was in Sainsburys, so I didn't even have to ask for them - I walked passed them twice, phoned Christian & then grabbed them off the shelf! I went all red & hot! I'm 35 for God's sake! I am allowed to have sex!
Saturday, 21 June 2008
BACK TO CAKE MAKING
I have 2 cakes that I need to be making over the next couple of weeks. The first is Amelia's Christening cake, a 2 tier fruit cake job ( or maybe a sponge top tier - not quite decided) with some sort of modelling work involved - it will look fantastic I'm sure! The other is a huge chocolate cock!
Monday, 9 June 2008
FORMULA FOOD - ROUND 7
CANADA = POUTINE (pronounced put sin)
Hmmm! What can be said about poutine.... Well it's basically chips, cheese curds & gravy. Rather peculiar for a national dish but there you go. It's one of those things that sounds a bit odd, so it would probably be really good! I didn't use cheese curds (I actually didn't try to get them), I read that mozzarella was the next best thing - so I just used that. I think my problem with poutine is that I'm just not a fan of chips & gravy, I finished it though. It was quiet good as hangover comfort food - maybe the Canadians have lots of hangovers!
Conclusion: If I was Canadian, I would invent something else as a national dish!
Would I make it again? No!
Poutine:
Chips of your choice (I oven bake my own), cheese curds or 1 ball of buffalo mozzarella per person, very hot chicken gravy.
1. Cook chips, tear over cheese, cover with gravy & leave a couple of mins for the cheese to start melting.
Hmmm! What can be said about poutine.... Well it's basically chips, cheese curds & gravy. Rather peculiar for a national dish but there you go. It's one of those things that sounds a bit odd, so it would probably be really good! I didn't use cheese curds (I actually didn't try to get them), I read that mozzarella was the next best thing - so I just used that. I think my problem with poutine is that I'm just not a fan of chips & gravy, I finished it though. It was quiet good as hangover comfort food - maybe the Canadians have lots of hangovers!
Conclusion: If I was Canadian, I would invent something else as a national dish!
Would I make it again? No!
Poutine:
Chips of your choice (I oven bake my own), cheese curds or 1 ball of buffalo mozzarella per person, very hot chicken gravy.
1. Cook chips, tear over cheese, cover with gravy & leave a couple of mins for the cheese to start melting.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
CRESS
What a good idea cress is! It's the perfect bribe for getting children to eat eggs. Alice is currently growing some cress egg heads! First she had to eat a boiled egg & soldiers, to get the empty egg shell. Then she got to paint the egg shell. Now we are growing the cress in the egg shell. And in another 3 or 4 days she is going to eat an egg & cress sandwich! - maybe Jane could try this with Phil!
She is very impressed with her green fingers, she waters her plant every day & every morning she can't wait to see how much it has grown - very cute! I remember doing this as a child - it's exciting stuff!
She is very impressed with her green fingers, she waters her plant every day & every morning she can't wait to see how much it has grown - very cute! I remember doing this as a child - it's exciting stuff!
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