On Saturday, Sydney was draining its freezers of ice cubes during the day and decamping to the beer fridge at their local bottle shop when the sun set.
I purposely went out for a walk in the rain, minus an umbrella. Did you feel inclined to do the same? |
And it smelled like a bakery when I got around to baking the cookies.
A single recipe makes around 4 dozen cookies. Taste wise? Put it this way, regardless of what they do for milk supply, I’d be happy to eat my way through the entire lot based on their taste alone. The yeast added a ‘healthy richness’ to the cookies and I did the right thing by using fancy dark chocolate. Perhaps it’s the endorphin rush from the taste that explains how these cookies work.
I had a bit of an adventure with the curry I made afterwards. I somehow managed to burn half the bottom of my much loved red Le Creuset casserole pan.
It’s almost back to new thanks to a long soak in a cold solution of very dilute bleach (2 caps of White King in a pot full of cold tap water did it for me). I think there is an official Le Creuset cleaning solution for situations like this but I’ve yet to find it in a store.
I really need to get started on some Christmas-ification of SSG Manor. I’ve seen everyone’s trees and decorations on twitter, instragram and blogs and your houses are all looking spectacular! I’m biding my time this weekend by having a couple of Heston’s fruit mince pies for afternoon tea. Will I be able to stop at two?
Have a lovely evening!