Domestic Goddesque

Picture Credit Rule #2: Recipe for Success Just as it would be unthinkable to serve frozen TV dinners or re-heated leftovers to an honoured guest, these offerings should not be considered acceptable dinner fare for the man you adore. Give him a hearty home-cooked meal- one that’s prepared from scratch and seasoned with love. The [...]

Yesterday I saw the first glimpse of green grass in over a week and went to bed giddy with excitement at the prospect of leaving the house for the first time since the New Year. DH burst my bubble at 4am when he announced that it was snowing again, so this morning I once more [...]

When the snow is falling, I end up raiding the kitchen to find things to do with the Pocket Dictator. She loves being in her FunPod and helping me whilst I cook, so a lump of leftover pastry was the perfect thing to focus our attention on. In actual fact it was pastry that I [...]

One of the advantages of the SPD is that I am at home a lot more than I used to be and, because so much of the Domesticity is delegated to those more able, I can spend more time in the kitchen. This too is a complicated process since I cannot stand for too long, [...]

Again, I’m a little late. I’ve been occupied of late trying to find ‘help’ I should probably have consulted Dulwich Mum about this sort of thing, since she appears to be a pro in the help-hiring department. It’s very odd, having once been a nanny and then maternity nurse, to find yourself on the other [...]

Violet Posy is having a Halloween ‘do’! I thought it only fair that I do the same…. PD with her trick-or-treat stash last year. And WH in witchy glory! The Pocket Dictator is having a Halloween Party tomorrow, a whimsical notion caused by the arrival of some lovely new cake cutters (the former cake cutters [...]

Last year I hosted a Tupperware party, which went down a storm , if only for all the wrong reasons. The Tupperware lady was, to be blunt, a complete nutter and I found myself kicking her out at 11.30pm because she just didn’t want to leave. That said the Tupperware shape-sorter (whose design doesn’t appear [...]

The Supportive Fellow Mum (SFM) had a birthday this week. She got flowers and chocolates and an evening out sans enfants, which is not to be sniffed at when you have 17-month-old twins. I scored a PD- free morning later in the week and the Giant Chocolate Buttons I picked up in Waitrose led me [...]

We have friends coming to visit this weekend: they are staying in the room that will at some point in the relatively near future belong to the Pocket Dictator. She will be getting the upgrade to allow Babydeux free and full use of the nursery which is smaller and (more importantly) has an interconnecting door [...]

The oven we inherited from the former owners of our house is refusing to die, and whilst it clings stubbornly to life, it continues to cook things in unpredictable fashion, which rather makes any attempts at baking quite risky. A very simple tart I made a few weeks ago with some of the masses of [...]