I am very sad about Michael Jackson.

exciting stuff and one bummer

I havent updated in ages because I was waiting to update with pictures which I was going to upload from my didgital camera which has now gone missing from MY OWN HOUSE. I have no idea what happened to it. Some houses just seem to have a black hole in them which sucks things up.

It wasn't even mine, I was borrowing it from my mum.

EXCITING THINGS.

I am doing work experience at Good Food magazine on Monday for two weeks.

I finally have all my things from my mums house. 

more egggggggs

I'm eating a lot of eggs lately. Me and james have been having poached eggs on muffins with smoked salmon a bit. This morning (for morning read afternoon) I woke up and as i didn't have any easter egg hunt to go to or a roast lamb to eat I felt I should do something eastery so I am listening to Sam Cooke singing a lot of songs about Jesus and I ate a poached egg on a buttered hot cross bun. To be honest I thought it was going to taste a bit gross but I wanted to have an easter party in my mouth anyway, turns out it is super tasty.

weird sandwich combinations

this works. poached egg and branston pickle.

I like fruit in my savoury food a lot.

last night I had mango salsa and spicy trout for dinner, not too disimilar to the dinner in my last post. Then I made an apricot and chicken and chickpea stew (inspired my friend Angela) for todays lunch for James and tonight I want to make thai green curry with bananas in it.

this is what I had for dinner last night.

I marinaded the chicken in olive oil, jerk seasonining, lime juice, maldon sea salt and some lea&perrins (best ingredient ever) and then put in the oven and added a bit of coconut milk just before the end.

cooked the rice half in water and half in coconut milk.

Made the papya salsa with diced papaya, finely chopped red chilli, a few chopped spring onions, lime juice, salt, pepper, olive oil, grated ginger and some torn up coriander.

this isn't the best picture of it.

I got a birthday loaf

My mum called me up on the morning of my birthday. Here is a rouch transcript of how our conversation went as remembered by me.

MUM: Happppppy birthday, happpppy birthday.

ME: Hiiii mum.

MUM: what are you doing today?

ME: I'm going to the zoo.

MUM: (sings) I'm going to the zooo oo ooo are you going to come too oo ooo? Are you going to sing the zoo song.

ME: is that a real song?

MUM: yes. what kind of birthday cake do you want.

ME: banana cake.

MUM: what?? I don't know how to make a banana cake. what kind?

ME: one with bananas and toffee and cream and bananas in the middle Just don't make me banana BREAD okay mum. or chocolate cake. I definitely do not want chocolate cake. I could accept a pavlova but don't get a bloody meringue base from sainsburys and squirt some cream on it and throw some fruit on it.

MUM: hahaha that is what I was going to do.

I saw my mum the next day for my birthday meal and cake.

This is what I got.

It's a loaf of banana bread with buttercream icing on the top. It's pretty tasty with some butter spread on it though.