Stepford Wife
Dec. 16th, 2006 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramtopstoday, I have been mostly baking. I made a fabulous gruyere and cracked peppercorn bread. Or, at least, it would have been fabulous had I had a decent loaf tin instead of the ancient old things I use. It wasn't /quite/ cooked through, but we toasted it, and it was delicious.
and I made some shortbread bikkies, and cut them out with my festering xmas tree and star cutters. And I made some walnut shortbread, and cut them out ditto, except the recipe said to leave the dough in the fridge for half and hour,and I left it in there for about 5 hours, and had to soften it all up again. But they're out of the oven now, and they're gorgeous. I'm going to bung a bit of icing and some glittery balls [fnaar] on the shortbreads tomorrow.
tomorrow - marzipan the cake, have a bash at sausage rolls {dear god - pastry; I can't do pastry ...), maybe some banana muffins.
I got Pete to drive me up to the Kitchen Shop this afternoon (I can't park the Thaab, try as I might) and bought two new loaf tins, and another heavy duty baking tray - now I'm doing lots of this stuff, I want better quality tins, cos it makes all the difference.
and we called in at the local off licence on the way home and picked up 26 bottles of wine (including some vintage Pelorus - hurrah, and some pink fizz just for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kalunina. There are six assorted bottles of fizz on the top row of the wine rack, which should do us through to next year.)
now I'm sitting here whileperlmonger cooks me a lump of Dexter steak before settling down to the X-Factor (which the Tivo is recording.
all recipes are on Nibblous, should you be interested.
and I made some shortbread bikkies, and cut them out with my festering xmas tree and star cutters. And I made some walnut shortbread, and cut them out ditto, except the recipe said to leave the dough in the fridge for half and hour,and I left it in there for about 5 hours, and had to soften it all up again. But they're out of the oven now, and they're gorgeous. I'm going to bung a bit of icing and some glittery balls [fnaar] on the shortbreads tomorrow.
tomorrow - marzipan the cake, have a bash at sausage rolls {dear god - pastry; I can't do pastry ...), maybe some banana muffins.
I got Pete to drive me up to the Kitchen Shop this afternoon (I can't park the Thaab, try as I might) and bought two new loaf tins, and another heavy duty baking tray - now I'm doing lots of this stuff, I want better quality tins, cos it makes all the difference.
and we called in at the local off licence on the way home and picked up 26 bottles of wine (including some vintage Pelorus - hurrah, and some pink fizz just for
kalunina. There are six assorted bottles of fizz on the top row of the wine rack, which should do us through to next year.)now I'm sitting here while
perlmonger cooks me a lump of Dexter steak before settling down to the X-Factor (which the Tivo is recording.all recipes are on Nibblous, should you be interested.
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Date: 2006-12-16 09:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-16 10:47 pm (UTC)My top tip is not to bother trying to make puff pastry yourself. Really, that way lies madness. I buy it ready made from the chilled cabinet in the supermarket. Shhhh!
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Date: 2006-12-17 09:34 am (UTC)it might be a disaster, but I'm going to try!
[looks for pinny]
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Date: 2006-12-17 10:29 am (UTC)It all sounds delicious. Walnut shortbread. Droolling here.
Re: ?!
Date: 2006-12-17 02:01 pm (UTC)help me .....
Re: ?!
Date: 2006-12-18 04:41 pm (UTC)