I’ve seen Monkey Bread around the internet, but mainly on US blogs and sites. Given that we don’t get Pilsbury Ready-to-Roll Biscuits here, I assumed that I’d have to wait until I was in Arizona next summer to have a go at making them. Then, wouldn’t you know, last week I was in the [...]
Actually that’s not true all of the time but on this particular occasion I excelled. I have been noticing that DH is not as keen on chocolate cake as he once was. It turns out that bought cake never lives up to my home-made cakes [insert smug grin here], [...]
There’s nothing like cake under pressure: PD became a little obsessed with ladybirds (or ladybugs, as her American cousin calls them) after studying mini-beasts at Kindergarten. I made the kind of rash promise that I have a tendancy to when I am trying to leave her in class at the beginning of the day [...]
June has been an odd month, primarily because I sent two weeks of it tucked away in a sunny corner of Mallorca without adequate internet access, but that didn’t mean we didn’t get things done. To keep the girls busy en route, I took a leaf from Activity Mom’s book and printed out some [...]
I’ve spent most of the day baking for our Royal Wedding Party tomorrow. A friend and I are following the recipes from a Coronation Street Party (that is a Street Party held in 1953 to celebrate the Coronation, rather than a party in an engaging British Soap Opera) which I will be hosting. I [...]
In addition to the issues I have been having with the wunderkinder at Blueberry, I am adding TalkTalk to my list of Most Wanted. I actually had a Cutomer Representative laugh at me a while ago. And not because I made a joke. I’m thinking of a word and it rhymes with Banker…