This blog came about as a challenge from daughter Lucy over Christmas when she discovered how much 'stuff' we have in our cupboards, fridges, and freezer. The challenge is to not buy any food for ourselves, apart from bread and milk, for the month of January and to make use of what we have in house already! Should be possible and a worthwhile challenge.
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Michael's cake
It was Michael Bentley's birthday on the 31st of January, so as a gift I baked him a January Challenge cake.....thought it would neatly wrap up the challenge which Lucy had tossed in our direction at the end of last year....so I concocted a cake loosely based on an old tried and tested recipe which used up all of my remaining flour, muscovados sugar, butter, mixed dried fruit and apricots. It seemed to sum up neatly the nature of our task....so job done, challenge completed, all thoroughly enjoyable.
So thanks Lucy, great idea, interesting talking point and lots of fun.....although I have to say that I'm somewhat tired of carrots and parsnips, and am aching for a few platefuls of salads and greens.
Good luck with Vegan February.....good job it's a short month!
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Wow - you did it! You must now have lots of space in fridge/freezer/cupboards. Did the challenge include all them bottles in the lower scullery ? If so - milk of thistle is very good for supporting the liver!!!!
ReplyDeleteChris is just eaating the last box of mince pies and in Jan eaten virtually half a christmas cake he was given....who ate all the pies?who ate all the pies - Hickey
See you soon I hope, love from Chelters xxx