Supper

New cookery books always get me excited but also  a little anxious! Odd I know but my dilema comes when I find a recipe I want to cook but then when I turn the page I find another! And so it goes on. I often feel torn as to whether I stay on that page & cook said dish before turning to the next.

So tonight with two books “on the go” we are having a combination of things that may or may not go together, but I have a good feeling about this even though both cuisines are quite different.

a couple of hours later……………………….

Now I will start with an apology.

Sorry no pictures.

This speaks for its self.

Too delicious, eaten before you could say “iphone, where……….. is…….oh forget it”!

And what was it that was so delicious? Rick Stein’s “Far Eastern Odyssey” – Deep fried chicken wings with a chilli & tamarind sambal and a mango, mint, coriander & lime salad. I amended a couple of things here

a) used skinless thigh fillets

b) made up only half the sambal, which was more than enough (and used tamarind concentrate for ease)

c) shallowed fried the chicken

d) and served it with lots of rocket

Plus from the new Yotam Ottolenghi “Plenty”- Sweet potato cakes, but without the sauce and just a big squeeze of lime juice.

Please take my word for it, but so delicious may have to sit quietly for rest of evening.

a “don’t” not a “do”!

Word on the street is they are the cake “de jour”! No longer the cupcake (hurrah) I grant you lovely to look at, some fabulous flavours, but just a bit too much icing to cake ratio for me. No, the new temptation goes by the name of “whoopie pie”.

Don’t be fooled by looks.

I baked this delicious looking, I stress “looking”, cake yesterday when I was finding any diversion possible to avoid my tax return. So with that in mind you would imagine that the simplest of things would have made me happy, but no this cake didn’t do it. In my book this is more “whoopie don’t” than “whoopie do”.

However that diversion proving inadequate it was back to my on going quest to bake perfect macaroons. These are still not quite right but on the way……………

spring doing it’s thing!

I just don’t know how or even why, but it happens. A  bit of tidying, which could happen at any time of year I grant you, but somehow at this time of year it get’s special!

Found this tin……………

and then ribbons to be sorted……………………….

how could I have left these all at the back of a cupboard!

Love spring, love clearing out cupboards, love my hidden treasures unearthed.

PS this clearing, cleaning thing will wear off, but for now I love it!