Category: Random
Have you ever wondered…
What 76 cupcakes looked like? Well! Here’s your chance to find out!
Continue Reading...Chicken Soup
Made in a fit of randomness, created completely out of my head! Poach the chicken breasts in stock for about 10 minutes. Take off the heat and leave to stand until needed. Finely dice one onion, one leek (try and get one that’s still young so it’s mainly all white and light green) and one […]
Continue Reading...Beef Stew
The cold weather’s here (or maybe it just seems colder to me after a month in the heat) and it’s the time of the year for stew! This one contains beef, potato, carrots, parsnip, swede, onions and liver and kidney.. served with dumplings of course!
Continue Reading...Toad in the Hole
Not cake in the slightest but my luck with yorkshire puddings rising is sporadic so I had to share.. Whole, fresh out the oven Butchered into portions and served with mint gravy
Continue Reading...New Book…
I went into a bookshop, with the aim of getting myself a new book to read… and come out with a recipe book! And then do actually sit down and read it!! I have no clue what this says about me. It’s Feast by Nigella Lawson.. it was on offer, only £10 instead of £25, […]
Continue Reading...Competition Update
I came second! (out of three) The duck was as you see it below, but good! The seabass was placed on top of the new potatoes which had been put in a ring and crushed slightly, and it was mange tout rather than fine beans. I had a bigger fish as well, that I had […]
Continue Reading...Not a Cake!
Chaud-frois that I made at college. It’s an old fashioned way of presenting things (mainly meat and fish) for buffets. The item is cooked, then covered in a bechamel that has gelatin added. The decorations are added, made from aubergine, peppers and cucumber skins. They’re then covered in aspic jelly!
Continue Reading...Buy cake!
Since I appear to have made it to the main Aberddu page.. look at the shiney link there to me! Anyway.. I am, if you didn’t know already, going to South Africa in October, and I want to raise money for that trip So if between now and October you want anything made, anything at […]
Continue Reading...Happy Easter
The eggs I made went down well so I’m happy 😀
Continue Reading...Hello world!
Eat my Cake!! That’s essentially the basis for this. It is my place to share the cakes and goodies I make, recipes I find and anything else I feel like sharing. I’m currently making Easter eggs and hot cross buns. The buns will hopefully turn out better than last year.. they were a little like […]
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