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Falafel

Bin makin falafel, was going to post a pic but to be frank they look rather unappealing :/

I know, I know I am not really selling em , but I am a falafel making virgin up until now any suggestions on what they can be served with anyone?

Funny thing was I have seen them on the telly and in tesco and have heard from friends that they are good and now I have made them I dunno what to do with em!

The recipe I used was Jamie Oliver’s and consisted of chick peas, mixed beans, coriander, harrisa and lemon which is basically blitzed up and then some flour is added and you roll them into small patties. I used my flat griddle to cook them but they can be deep/shallow fried too. I’m just not keen on what Jamie serves them with so for now I just had em with salad. I will take pics when I have found something inventive to do with them

The weather

Everyman and his dog have been proclaiming it’s sunny and putting this on their FB status’s, yes I know it’s sunny I have a window!

Plus everyone who happens not to be at work has to point out how lucky it was that they happened to book this week off, yes we know it is important to rub it in when some of us are slaving away in offices & kitchens bah

The obvious advantage of working for yourself is that we can just pack up and naff off home when we feel like it. However we don’t generally, as it tends to make ppl miffed when they turn up to a shuttered door when they were starving hungry, so we just plug away …….

So the plan we have been opting for is, dashing home after work & sitting in the garden drinking sangria and pretending we have nothing to do and nowhere to be!!

Essential reading

How to make sangria Full Belly Styleeee:

1 measure of brandy
1 small glass of red wine
1/2 small glass fruit juice (orange or pineapple work best)
1 small glass of lemonade or if u have no fruit juice use tango or fanta

For an authentic holiday feel add ice cubes and sliced fruit and fill your boots! Not literally that wud be a bit squelchy and I should say drink responsibly, 2 glasses plus the sun equals Michelle being goosed %D

Iron man

My latest project

As Kealey has the biggest crush on Robert Downey Junior EVER I decided to do an iron man cake but using his face instead, after all he is Tony Stark.

I also did some cupcakes with iron man/ iron patriot too, mainly for the kids but also coz I can! It also gave me a chance to try using edible pictures and I am now such a fan. I used a company called edible prints and they supplied me with 24 round pre cut cupcake toppers and I got a larger one to do Robert’s face which I cut to size.

You can see the end result, the top tier was carrot cake and the bottom one was Victoria sponge & Kealey was dead pleased ( how i managed to hide the project from her I’ll never know!) plus she gets to lick his face

A skinny lady and a fat lady

We decided to shut the shop today, to be fair we did know for a while that it wouldn’t be possible to recover from an 18 year old’s birthday party & work at the same time so we thought best not to try!

Plus our star waitress/cashier would be the said 18 year old who happens to be our daughter too. What a good decision it turned out to be considering she was still drunk this morning! In honor of Kealey, happy birthday and this is how you were looking at 4 in the morning x