Hands up if you’ve ever made a cream horn. I’m guessing nobody, other than the five of us taking part in this challenge (and the Bake Off participants themselves, of course). And with good reason.
They’re a pain in the arse. They require a lot of different processes and techniques, and on a personal note, a week later, I still haven’t got feeling back in one of my fingertips after touching a hot toffee-coated spoon.
Barry mistakenly thought he was going to get a mini hog roast for the princely sum of £2.99 recently. When the leg of a pig arrived (£2.99/kg), we were surprised. Not as surprised as our fridge, which is usually just full of Diet Coke.
We thought this may be a tad too much eating for two, so Charlie and Jaime came over with Finley again (hint, hint, Charlie, it’s your turn to cook!), and we had the most amazing roast dinner! I’m not usually one for pork, but this was gorgeous. I can take no praise for this one – I was at the hairdresser all morning.
He roasted the pork in shallots, garlic, rosemary, thyme (those two from our garden), and put whole apples in to roast with it, which were so delicious (we ate them like apple sauce).
We also had pepper pot cake for pudding (not sure why it’s called that, it’s got apples in it). I was so full you could have rolled me down a hill and I couldn’t have stopped myself.
We went to see Tenacious D in Manchester last night, they were absolutely fantastic! Great show.
Also popped some stuff on eBay this week, including our red drawers. Hopefully they’ll go to a good home (one that will give us lots of money for them, as they’re discontinued!).
To finish, Barry thinks the empty wine bottles in the kitchen look nice. I think they look a bit like a recycling plant, but there you go. Anyway, I tarted them up a bit with some sage from the garden. How pretty!
