Crazy for Cooking!

Seems we've developed an affinity for basic cooking in this house too! His Lordship and I were stumped for what to feed the Housemates on our Sunday - especially with a budget of not-what-you-might-call-a-lot-if-anything. But it seems you can make a bloody good stew out of roughly not much! We had a big chunk of cheap steak in the freezer (the butcher wanted to shut his stall for the afternoon, so we got it less than half price) and some frozen veg. A forage in the veggie cupboard revealed some slightly hairy carrots and some ought-to-be-used-so-discounted potatoes. A further dig in the big cupboard pulled up some stock cubes, half a bottle of red, some garlic bulbs, an old onion, going-cheap mushrooms and some jarred things like pepper. A quick foray into the garden pulled up some lovely thyme, rosemary and basil - chucked all in my massive bought-in-the-sales steel pot and left it for a few hours. Impressively, after a quick stir (and some more red wine, just in case) it was actually pretty good. Hank and George sufficiently impressed. I'm glad we used the wine in the stew, it was a bit vicious. Visual representation auf das Pixdaus.com.

I also make nice cake. After the lovely Lemon, we experimented with a few things, like using lime marmalade (great if the mix is a bit dry!), extra eggs and less marg (creates a souffle-ish effect, very light), and the top favourite so far: cupboard leftovers cake. Which was some Somerfield's cocoa (there hasn't been a Somerfields here for YEARS) and some old packeted ginger left over from the Days of Dan (ditto above). The remains of some old Bird's powder, the last of the "thin sugar" and some random banana-milkshake-maker-stuff, and we had a rather scrummy pud!

Quote of the Day: "I accidentally turned the devil into a hobo but I never intended to melt off a characters hand. And then they all communicate by magical toaster. I still don't know how that happened." - My mad sister, writing her new book.