This is not the Doctor Who review
Sep. 5th, 2011 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayThe Doctor Who review will be coming. Probably tomorrow. It was rather excellent, though, and just a wee bit spooky.
I've been having a lovely quiet weekend and didn't actually turn on the computer yesterday, hence the lack of review. Shockingly, there was a bit of cooking and baking yesterday. We roasted a leg of lamb and it was totally delicious. Mum even re-learned how to make mint sauce, as Canada is shockingly short of anything except some substance called mint jelly that tastes totally wrong.
And now I have lamb to go in my lunch wraps this week. Nom!
There was also this cake: http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/08/everyday-chocolate-cake/
We ate slices still warm, with Greek yoghurt, blueberries and blackberries and it was delicious. I suspect that this may be the perfect indulgent way to eat any berries and the Greek yoghurt provides a really gorgeous contrast to the sweetness of the cake. In fact, I think the cake may be a little sweet without the yoghurt so it may need a touch of tweaking, but with berries (any berries, really) and yoghurt it is somewhere beyond divine.
Also, I have now addicted my mother to The Great British Bake-off. We're not normally interested in reality shows (except Strictly) but this is perfect. Even Mum is picking up some interesting new tips from it and I regard her as my baking goddess teacher!
This afternoon we caught up on the Archers while knitting. It was lovely. I must do something soon to remind myself that I'm not an old granny as most of my current hobbies seem to be very granny-ish.
I've been having a lovely quiet weekend and didn't actually turn on the computer yesterday, hence the lack of review. Shockingly, there was a bit of cooking and baking yesterday. We roasted a leg of lamb and it was totally delicious. Mum even re-learned how to make mint sauce, as Canada is shockingly short of anything except some substance called mint jelly that tastes totally wrong.
And now I have lamb to go in my lunch wraps this week. Nom!
There was also this cake: http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/08/everyday-chocolate-cake/
We ate slices still warm, with Greek yoghurt, blueberries and blackberries and it was delicious. I suspect that this may be the perfect indulgent way to eat any berries and the Greek yoghurt provides a really gorgeous contrast to the sweetness of the cake. In fact, I think the cake may be a little sweet without the yoghurt so it may need a touch of tweaking, but with berries (any berries, really) and yoghurt it is somewhere beyond divine.
Also, I have now addicted my mother to The Great British Bake-off. We're not normally interested in reality shows (except Strictly) but this is perfect. Even Mum is picking up some interesting new tips from it and I regard her as my baking goddess teacher!
This afternoon we caught up on the Archers while knitting. It was lovely. I must do something soon to remind myself that I'm not an old granny as most of my current hobbies seem to be very granny-ish.
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Date: 2011-09-06 01:00 pm (UTC)