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'Jump' Illustration Friday

'Jump' Illustration Friday

'Heights' for Illustration Friday

'Heights' for Illustration Friday. Black pen, blue spinning-top pen, pencil on cream paper. I also inverted the colours and I love the sense of night-time and the ephemeral way the angel looks in the darker one! xx

My cheesey muushroom grill came out just gorgeous! A complete yummy success.

I'm usually more of a desserts girl, in fact just cake tbh. But I thought 'Here I go, I'll make a first course that does not come out of a box' then I thought 'No way that'll never work!' So I made a teensy bit and it was great and my bro turned up just as it was finished so we had a taster each and wished there were more - That's what I call a complete yummy success!
Recipe:

mushrooms
grated cheese
chopped walnuts
salt
pepper
chopped/minced/whatever garlic
chopped flat parsley
tbsp melted butter

Pretty straight forward:
Pull the stalky bits out of your mushrooms and chop 'em up
Chuck everything together bar some of the cheese and all the walnuts
Squeeze the mixture into the upside-down mushrooms (I love the word "upside-down") and top with cheese and walnuts
Bake it for a bit til it looks nice in a moderate oven

Then you can add what you like - if it's a wet ingredient like chopped courgette or grated zuchini squeeze it out in a clean teatowel to get rid or the juice, if you add lots of dry ingredients add an egg to make it all stick together.

"Puzzled" Illustration Friday

Mr Food Face

I like to make food faces for my peapod daughter, makes meal times a bit more fun... xx

'Vocal' for Illustration Friday

Recipe For Disaster Cake

Recipe for Disaster Cake:
First cover your kitchen in melted butter - I did this by forgetting I was softening it in the oven then trying to get it out too quickly and splattering it in a Jackson Pollock-esque way all over carpet, self and cupboards.
Measure your ingredients completely wrongly.
Take many phone calls while cooking, this always hinders the process.
Use too many eggs - I had been blowing eggs for the girls to decorate so I just had to guess at the right amount of yellowy slop. I guessed the wrong amount of yellowy slop.
Use a too-small cake tin.
Put marzipan on too early - this has a two-fold disaster result 1) slows down cake cooking time causing the bottom to harden into enedible rock 2) marzipan burns.
When putting the finishing touches to your disaster cake be sure to touch the marzipan before it has cooled, thus bringing away a layer of marzipan creating a rubbish-looking-marzipan effect*, at the same time as burning your fingertips.

I, thankfully, did not create a Catastrophe Cake today (unlike the time I foolishly believed the "sugar" label on a jar of salt) the middle of the fruit cake layer was really quite good and yummy so here is the recipe:

1 orange, chopped finely or pureed
170g butter
100g caster sugar
100g brown sugar
3 eggs
100g
125g almond meal
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves
350g dried fruit


Grease and flour a 23 centimetre cake tin
Preheat the oven to 170C.
Cream the butter and sugars
Mix in the eggs and the pureed orange
Add the flour, almond meal, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and ground cloves, and mix well
Add the dried fruit, and mix
Bake the cake until a skewer inserted comes out with moist crumbs (hour to hour and a half)

Hope you make Yummy Yumster Cake xx faerie xx

*technical term meaning marzipan that looks not really that good.

Easter Tree Decoration

My peapod daughter, my brother and I made an Easter tree. I cut the garland and we made flowers from scrunched tissue paper. Here it is complete with all the prezzies xx

Ipod pocket

Made an ipod pocket for my vest top, for when I run. Works like a dream - a dream of listenin to Bruce Springsteen while I run without dropping my ipod in the canal! Have not seen my running friends for ages tho, hopefully bump into them on Wednesday morning... xx

My happy little lettuces:

My little lettuce mini greenhouse:

If you're a gardener like me, and you love repurposing, like me, you'll love this one. I made a little mini green house for my baby lettuces, from old plastic fruit boxes. They are so happy, I can almost see their little green smiles! xx

I Friday "Shades"

Eggsamples box

Decorated egg box, soon to contain decorated eggs for my new craft evening... xx

Illustration Friday 'Yeild'

Just made myself a new sarong for the summer. How nice is this fabric! xx