birthday cake

this is a triple chocolate birthday cake for Paul................

Happy Birthday darling :)

just cake

thought id make a cake tonight, just basic victoria sponge 6,6,6,3 and fresh pineapple layered inbetween, it smells gorgeous but yet to taste. mind it did take 1 1/2hrs to cook.
had a few up and down days , paul commenced chemo monday, and i think everything came to ahead with us both, very emotional. although we are coping i think very well with the illness itself it is all the unnessesary stress you get on top of it that often (well is) causing the breakdowns of emotions, maybe that is good as we do then release, and i suppose dont realise the full extent of the worry until it happens. (the straw that broke the camels back) i think thats what its called LOL.
but ive sewn and baked and we both managed to take the girls out for a walk today, and since then we both feel a lot happier about everything going on again.

and its my brothers birthday today, so Happy Birthday Duncan luv you loads xxxx

apple pie

a quick apple pie for pud tonight, minus a slice for james .

damson jam

doesnt that look scrumptious, and it taste scrumdiddlyumptious as well .
this was from the 5lb of damsons we picked the other day and it made 10 jars.

It works

i had a second hand bread machine given to me the other day from paul's little brother peter, i dont think it had ever been used, cleaned the outside and today i made my first loaf in it, a french 2lb loaf, and its done, didnt stick just lifted the bread tin and pop it was out, no scraping inside the tin, no half a loaf left behind, no burnt fingers, no getting cross and nearly flinging it across the room LOL. brilliant id forgotten how easy it was. :-)

the chef !

heres james with the finished blueberry muffins he made, they taste nice, very light and have a tangy ness to them.

at the cooker melting the butter and honey for hobnobs.

pouring the melted mixture into the oats,sugar and flour.

all mixing up.

he does realy well, also weighed all the other ingredients out, as we made some more ginger nuts, aswell. they are all cooked now. and a parcel will be winging its way to a friend of ours in middlesbrough very shortly, as she loves james' ginger nuts. everytime we make them we have to have a parcel for A and a parcel for grandad because he knows how much they all love them.

we have also made a pie for our tea tonight, the remnants of sunday roast dinner.

i cooked a shoulder of lamb with loads of veg on sunday, then yesterday we had shepherds pie and today with whats left of the lamb and veg is making a pie. the girls also got a good meal out of it. so i am feeling very frugal and happy in making a meal go so far.