Hello blog. I won’t make any rash promises to take better care of you – but I have found something for you to keep track of for me.
Baking is a part of Christmas – it’s much nicer to whip up a tray of mince pies than it is to rip open a shop bought box – and every year it surprises me how easy it is to bake things rather than buy them. But somehow I forget that from January until mid-December. This year I’m going to remember. I baked a quiche on 4th January and quickly decided to call it the first of fifty-two baked things in 2013. Not quite a new year’s resolution, but a bit like it, only yummier.
This is what I came up with in January. If the recipe is online I will have linked to it from the flickr page.
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Tricorn Pasty
I made some more pasties already! Flying without the recipe this time I ended up with not enough pastry and too much filling. And somehow they ended up as triangles. I didn’t use as much pickle or cheese – next time I will think about making the filling a bit more exciting. They make a good meal all the same though. -
Peach & Raspberry Bread
This wasn’t what I was planning on making yesterday (which involved a shed load of ground almonds that will keep for another time) but the market had cheap raspberries and peaches and this looked like a nice recipe. Basically it’s a muffin in loaf form. I think I had a bit too much wet fruit in it but I think it’s nice.
I’ve realised I also made another small batch of mince pies with the leftover pastry from the tarte tatin, but since they obviously weren’t important enough to get a photograph I won’t include those.
I’m quite pleased with all this, and have plenty of plans for other bakes during the rest of the year.
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