Tiptoeing back in
My, it's looking a little dusty around here, where has the time gone? I did not intend to be away so long and now my voice feels rusty, after a blog absence it can be daunting to step back in, I find I need to test the water gently. A tiptoe if you will.
A few words today and more tomorrow.
These last few weeks have been heavenly though. The sun has shone here in Suffolk, the wisteria drips purple blooms from the kitchen roof, the bluebells fill the woods. There have been meals taken outdoors, bicycle rides, A&E (that boy, that boy!), chocolate eggs eaten and weddings celebrated.
And I have added a new cake to my baking rotation.
Orange & almond, my new favourite cake, baked twice in the last fortnight. I used the recipe from How To Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery)
, one of my most useful cookery books. The recipe makes an excellent cake - damp and almondy, perfect with morning coffee, evening tea or even a glass of wine. A grown up sort of cake, understated and simple, it gets better with age. I will experiment though, my bookshelves and the internet reveal many variations upon the theme, it is important to ensure that I am not missing an even better version.
My, it's looking a little dusty around here, where has the time gone? I did not intend to be away so long and now my voice feels rusty, after a blog absence it can be daunting to step back in, I find I need to test the water gently. A tiptoe if you will.
A few words today and more tomorrow.
These last few weeks have been heavenly though. The sun has shone here in Suffolk, the wisteria drips purple blooms from the kitchen roof, the bluebells fill the woods. There have been meals taken outdoors, bicycle rides, A&E (that boy, that boy!), chocolate eggs eaten and weddings celebrated.
And I have added a new cake to my baking rotation.
Orange & almond, my new favourite cake, baked twice in the last fortnight. I used the recipe from How To Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery)
, one of my most useful cookery books. The recipe makes an excellent cake - damp and almondy, perfect with morning coffee, evening tea or even a glass of wine. A grown up sort of cake, understated and simple, it gets better with age. I will experiment though, my bookshelves and the internet reveal many variations upon the theme, it is important to ensure that I am not missing an even better version.
Comments
Helen x
Love the colour of the wisteria against the wooden boards.
And hasn't the weather been glorious? Wind has been deceptively cold though - it was too cold to drink tea outside in the garden yesterday and we had frost this morning in Norfolk!
Pomona x
Your pictures are so beautiful .
The cake looks divine too !!
HAPPY mAY!