One day recently I found out that our little Spanish girl loves pancakes. It just slipped out in a conversation as these things do . . . and so I decided to treat her to a lovely batch of them one morning. I know . . . I am spoiling her, but it's just so darned nice to have a young person around. I truly am enjoying the experience and her!
How can you not love a cake which is called "Cut and Come Again Cake?" It's just impossible I tell you . . . well, it's impossible for me to at any rate.
I am an old fashioned girl and I just adore these old fashioned names for things . . . so just what is Cut and Come Again Cake? Well . . .
It's a deliciously moist and fruity loaf cake that begs you to cut a slice . . . and then once you've inhaled that slice, cut another one.
Presumably because the first slice was just so delicious that you just have to have another one!
Works for me . . . I say . . . Works for me! (at the risk of sounding like Fred Elliot ex butcher of Coronation Street!)
I love that show, been watching it since I was a girl.
If you're not fond of sultana raisins, and currants and mixed dried fruit . . . and toasted English walnuts . . . then this is not the cake for you . . .
I won't lie to you.
It's got plenty of them. It is well loaded with them.
But if you happen to love those things like we do . . . then you will totally adore this cake! Seriously! You are in for a treat!
This is what a teatime cake is all about. Moist. Delicious. Stogged full of fruit and nuts. Sliced plain and spread with butter, or garnished as I have done with a tasty orange drizzle icing.
Quite simply whisk enough fresh orange juice into 130g or 1 cup of sifted icing sugar to make a drizzle you can spoon over the warm cake.
Plain or iced. Buttered or not. This cake pleases on all levels. It's a sturdy cake, more like a loaf and tastes better with each day that passes.
You won't want to pass this one by. I guarantee! Now just where did I put my knife??? ☺
*Cut and Come Again Cake*
Makes one large loaf cakeBake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before lifting carefully out onto a wire rack to finish cooling completely. Store in a tightly covered container.
Casa Costello
One of the nice things about having someone else in the house is that Ariana likes Pasta and now I have the perfect excuse to cook it and not feel guilty about it. Today I made this simple and yet incredibly tasty pasta dish that Ariana and I both really enjoyed, and the Toddster dined on leftover meat and potatoes. Everybody was happy!
I have to admit that broccoli is not one of the Toddster's favourite vegetables. I love the stuff, but he's not so keen. It's one of those vegetables however that is really very good for you and so I am always looking for ways to incorporate it into our diets, that are appealing to him at least in some small way.
I love, love blueberries and we are right in the midst of our blueberry season here in the UK at the moment. I know my sister has been picking the juicy little blue jewels for a few weeks now in Canada. I can never get enough of them during the season and I always freeze tons to use in the Winter months. Today I decided to make a delicious sauce with them!
I have to admit, that of all the sandwiches out there, and all the sandwiches I have eaten in my lifetime, my favourite has to be the good old fashioned Cheese Toastie, or Grilled Cheese as it is also called. Over here they call sandwiches sarnies in some places. Or Baps . . .
Bap. Sarnie. Toastie. Sandwich. Truth be told no matter what they are called this carb loving heart of mine just adores them whatever they be called, and the grilled cheese is my most favourite-est indulgence of all!
Occasionally you see something which is totally outrageous and yet strangely appealing at the same time. That's the way it was for me when I saw these toasted Spaghetti and Cheese sandwiches popping up all over the net.
I don't mind admitting it. I'm having a kind of a blah day. I think everyone has days like that from time to time. It's like I'm running on empty today and my battery just feels low . . . low . . . low. I am totally lacking in energy and inspiration. Totally.
We have a lovely girl staying with us at the moment from Spain. She is working at the hospital and so I have been making her a lunch to take with her each day. Today, in my quest to get away from sandwiches, I made her a deliciously different salad for a change.
I love to cook and eat chicken. Once upon a time, when I was working full time . . . I was able to afford free range organic chicken, and I won't like . . . it was lovely. These days all I can rise to buy with the budget I have to work with is higher welfare chicken. I am not sure I want to really know what constitutes higher welfare, but . . . I like to believe that they are not that badly treated, or as badly treated as the other kind. Unemployment is a great equalizer. If I could afford it I would certainly still prefer to buy free range and organic, but one must do what one must do.
The temps have really dropped here these past couple of days. It seems we are getting winds from the North and things are getting pretty cool, even down to they say only 3 degrees early tomorrow morning! Who would believe it in August? Crazy!
Mondy evenings are always Family Home Evenings in our house. This is a special night each week that we set apart to do things together as a family. Usually we share a special thought, some fun activity and a special treat to share. It's a church thing, and we feel it is inspired and it helps us to draw closer together as a family.
I have always been a "foodie." I've always loved food, eating, recipes, etc. When I was between the ages of 5 and 9, my best friend in the world was a girl named Susan Warburton.
Here we are at the end of Grade one, we would have both been six years old. She is on the far left and I am right beside her. It was the awards ceremony at the end of the year.
Hooray for the weekend! I usually reserve the weekends for cooking us a nice big breakfast. It might be a full on fry up . . . or it might be something as simple as muffins. It all depends on how I feel and how hungry we are. Generally though, I like to pull out all the stops and cook something really scrummy for us to enjoy.
I usually like to bake something scrummy for our weekend breakfasts. A breakfast cake of some sort, scones . . . tea loaves, muffins. What I bake depends totally on what I have to hand and what kind of a mood I am in. This week I had some bananas that needed using and so I decided to bake these delicious Banana, Coconut and Macadamia Nut Muffins!
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